Sentences with phrase «big real estate donors»

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Spoiler alert: she does not go into detail about how fentanyl dealers used the real estate market to launder drug money or how B.C. casinos (also big donors to her party) helped international high rollers convert duffel bags of dirty cash into down payments on luxury homes.

Fossil fuel companies and real estate developers were among Clark's biggest campaign donors and, between B.C.'s climate leadership plan and the long time inaction to address housing inflation, they certainly seem to have had her ear on policy decisions.

Big real estate political donors are at the center of the ongoing Sheldon Silver scandal, the end of the Moreland Commission, and further investigations by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

For example, when commission investigators sought to review political donations and communications by the Real Estate Board of New York — a trade group whose members include some of Cuomo's biggest donors — in an effort to connect the dots on a valuable housing tax break, the governor's secretary reportedly instructed commissioners not to subpoena the organization.

Big real estate political donors are at the center of the ongoing Sheldon Silver scandal, the end of the Moreland Commission, and -LSB-...]

Giant real estate interests will continue to enjoy favored big - donor status, and you will continue to plan your retirement anywhere but here — what a waste of our beautiful state.

Litwin is also a big donor to Jobs for New York, the Political Action Committee backed by the Real Estate Board of New York.

Many CF1NY donors do business with the city, including unions and big real estate developers seeking tax breaks and zoning changes for their projects.

In his first term, most of his biggest donors came from the real estate industry.

He has received campaign donations from companies and wealthy donors ranging from big Albany, N.Y. lobbying shops and real estate developers to Hollywood moguls and pharmaceutical companies.

Glenwood Management, the giant real - estate firm that was once the biggest political donor in New York, is being sued by US Attorney Preet Bharara for not making one of its properties disability - friendly, new court papers charge.

Leonard Litwin, one of the state's biggest real - estate developers and one of New York's most prolific donors to politicians of all stripes, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, may have helped fund a Virginia outfit that ran TV attack ads that helped Skelos and the Republicans retain a majority in 2012.

«It's not a coincidence the biggest donors he has are real estate developers that are building luxury condos all across the state and it's driving up the rent for everybody,» he added.

Real - estate development Leonard Litwin remains Cuomo's biggest donor.

The list of top donors to housekeeping accounts is dominated by special interests that are highly regulated and / or subsidized by state government: real estate firms, health - care and pharmaceutical interests, labor unions, telecom companies, the beverage industry, big tobacco and gambling interests.

As has been the case in previous filings, Cuomo's biggest campaign donors include people from the New York City real estate industry and supporters of charter schools.

Rep. Charles Rangel's heavy - hitting donors — including Miami Heat owner Micky Arison, Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn and real - estate tycoon William Rudin — are shelling out big bucks to...

«If 421a helps the real estate industry, you'll say that's because the real estate industry are big donors,» Cuomo said at the time.

Donald Bren is described in the article as «a billionaire real estate developer and big Republican donor.»

To recap the unfolding scandal so far: Both the legislature's top - ranking Democrat, Sen. Sheldon Silver of Manhattan, and former senate majority leader Dean Skelos of Nassau County, have been arrested, and Glenwood Management, a New York City real estate management firm headed by Leonard Litman, which is Cuomo's biggest donor, has been implicated.

Some of the contributing causes of the current housing crisis — lack of housing supply, government inaction, greed, foreign ownership, the fact that some of the biggest donors to political parties are real estate developers, loopholes in rent control, the arrival of Airbnb — have previously been documented in the media.

We are proud to have this event so closely tied to our community, and as a donor, The Linda Frierdich Real Estate Group looks forward to seeing an even bigger turn - out this year than last!