Sentences with phrase «by campaign contributors»

In its 2013 report, the commission outlined examples of illegal and unethical behavior by campaign contributors and lawmakers looking for big checks.

«What Brooklyn needs is a hospital, not luxury developments by campaign contributors,» she said.

Great suggestions, however, the Times neglected to mention the extravagant, family style dinners where a $ 23 Pecan - walnut salad is paid for by campaign contributors.

Quinn's decision to support Local Law 17 was influenced by her campaign contributors Slattery alleged.

Former Senate Leader Skelos's son received tens of thousands of dollars for no show jobs arranged by campaign contributors, including Glenwood.

Not exact matches

Governor Perry tries to pick winners and losers by creating slush funds that give taxpayer money to connected corporations and his campaign contributors.

«Dr. Johnston... developed this sudden and seemingly urgent interest in this issue not via a last minute clinical review of the scientific literature, or even after consulting with the AAP's own recognized lactation science experts... his concern came immediately after aggressive, personal lobbying by representatives of one of the AAP's biggest financial contributors, the $ 3 billion U.S. infant formula industry,» wrote lactivist Katie Allison Granju in «The Milky Way of Doing Business,» a rebuttal to the AAP's actions regarding the campaign.

Additionally, OA&FS was a significant contributor to All Children — All Families, an initiative launched by the Human Rights Campaign to develop Promising Practices in Adoption and Foster Care, a Comprehensive Guide to Policies and Practices that Welcome, Affirm and Support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Foster and Adoptive Parents.

In an interview with Samuel Huntor on Montie FM's Flagship Program «Pampaso», monitored by, Ghanacreativearts.com, Michael Adangba explained that the songs the NDC used in the 2016 electioneering campaign was a major contributor to their downfall.

If we had more information, I bet we'd find similar trends throughout the Obama online army: of those 400,000 blog posts on the campaign site, how many were written by a small core of prolific contributors?

The report, «By the People: The New York City Campaign Finance Program in the 2013 Elections,» shows, among other things, that: the number of candidates participating in the public - funding system in 2013 remained high; more than two - thirds of all New York City contributors gave $ 175 or less; and more than 90 percent of the total raised came from individual contributors, rather than from PACs or unions.

In the second scheme, the indictment said, Howe was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by two major campaign contributors to Cuomo — COR of Syracuse, and LP Ciminelli, a Buffalo construction company — and worked with Kaloyeros to give them advantages in bidding for major projects, including the so - called «Buffalo Billions» project.

«With Fair Elections, candidates will be more accountable to us, not CEO campaign contributors, because they'll be able to run competitive campaigns by raising small contributions from our community.

«The legislation would prevent campaign contributors from evading the legal contribution limits by setting up shell corporations and instead establish a more level playing field to promote greater fairness and consistency in the Election Law.»

The early - bird posting of Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy's campaign - finance report shows the Cuomo administration's number two has used his fund to pay for what is described in the filing as «housing,» with payments going to a company owned by a major Republican contributor.

One by the Senate Investigation Committee, an entity controlled by Republicans; another by the Public Integrity Commission, which was essentially created by Eliot Spitzer and headed by one of his major campaign contributors.

July 16, 2004: New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey simmers in a pot stirred by indicted political fund raiser David D'Amiano and indicted campaign contributor Charles Kushner.

Brissenden alleged newly revealed evidence that showed Singh told investigators that he relayed to de Blasio that his efforts to direct funds to his campaign coffers were «not kosher» because he skirted campaign finance laws by using the names of contributors — the straw donors — whom he subsequently reimbursed.

Washington, DC (WBEN) Campaign strategist and WBEN contributor Michael Caputo spent Friday afternoon in Washington testifying before the House Intelligence Committee as it looks into possible interference by Russia in the 2016 elections.

Out of the $ 360,460 given to his two gubernatorial campaigns by contributors located within the two ZIP codes that encompass the city of Kingston, $ 262,800 can be linked to Aaron or his family members.

The original specs and eventual contract awards raised the spectre of pay to play because LPCiminelli, headed by one of the governor's biggest campaign contributors in Western New York, was awarded the lion's share of the work.

The letter is being sent by regular mail and e-mail to more than 50,000 Romney and GOP contributors in hopes of boosting Astorino's financially hard - pressed campaign.

But it turns out that many companies already contracted by the Port Authority, and who stand to benefit from the airport's overhaul, are also big campaign contributors to the governor.

Investigative Post reported in December 2014 about the curious circumstances under which LPCiminelli, a major Cuomo campaign contributor, was selected as project developer and efforts by state officials to suppress records related to that procurement process.

Mangano and Walker have both been identified in Newsday stories as being under scrutiny in an unrelated corruption probe by federal prosecutors on Long Island stemming from charges against restaurateur Harendra Singh, who was a major campaign contributor to Mangano and others on the Island.

The head of the NYPD's Special Victims Division, revealed to be a campaign contributor to then - presidential candidate Trump even after he was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women «by the p — y» got an unlikely boost from the head of the city chapter of the National Organization for Women.

A review of a number of businesses targeted by Bharara's subpoenas shows that most of them are regular contributors to Cuomo's campaigns.

The recipients include some of the governor's biggest campaign contributors, generating calls among some government officials and watchdog groups to intensify oversight of state contracts, including by the comptroller's office and the attorney general.

The 30 companies and their executives examined by Newsday as among Cuomo's top campaign contributors include some of the subjects of federal and state investigations, but most of the firms haven't been accused of wrongdoing.

And, I think the future of the Democratic party is not simply by raising money from wealthy campaign contributors.

Now at least one State Senator is renewing her call for Albany to end spending by so - called «ghost campaigns» belonging to retired or deceased elected officials by passing a bill requiring inactive campaign committees to give their cash to charity, the state's general fund, the State University of New York, another committee, or back to the original contributors.

The governor was asked by reporters about the economic development contract awards to politically connected campaign contributors, which are at the heart of the federal probe.

Liu and his campaign have been under a microscope since November, when contributor Oliver Pan was arrested by the feds for allegedly channeling $ 16,000 in illegal donations through stand - in donors, who each gave $ 800.

Common Cause / NY is urging the City Council to pass legislation introduced by City Councilman Brad Lander which would require city campaign ads paid for by independent expenditures to list the top five contributors on the ad itself.

Asked by the Syracuse Post-Standard about SUNY awarding $ 100 million in contracts to his top campaign contributor in Central New York, COR Development, the governor said he had no role.

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's campaign while simultaneously drawing a salary as a CNN contributor to discuss the candidate on - air, according to the network.

The bills would, among other things, establish a public campaign financing system and close a loophole that allows campaign contributors to skirt donation limits by setting up multiple LLCs or limited liability companies.

In the first six months of this year, that industry has been the single largest contributor, by more than twofold, to Breslin's seventh re-election campaign, according to one independent analysis.

A quarter century ago as Niagara County clerk, his election committee pleaded guilty for failure to list the true identity of a campaign contributor discovered by federal and state investigators probing alleged corruption in the county.

Assuming the complaint excludes expenditures by independent expenditure committees and donations by candidates to their own campaigns, Litwin and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg are the only two contributors who cracked $ 10 million during this time.

ALBANY — The decision by the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to choose a campaign contributor to the governor for a $ 50 million development contract at Republic Airport in Farmingdale has generated opposition from a rival bidder, local civic groups and state Sen. Phil Boyle, who represents the district.

Government watchdog groups also noted that evidence showed Percoco and other Cuomo staffers using private email to conduct public business, a lobbyist saying he was advised by an administration official that registering as a lobbyist would make it more difficult to operate, and a contributor being coached on how to hide donations to Cuomo to avoid campaign limits.

Authored by Democratic State Sens. Jerry Hill of San Mateo and Mark Leno of San Francisco, the bill would require the disclosure of a campaign's top three contributors on all campaign materials.

Both candidates have run mudslinging campaign ads — Udall's are paid for in many cases by the League of Conservation Voters, whereas Schaffer's contributors include ExxonMobil and Halliburton — establishing their disparate positions.

The percentage of physicians making campaign contributions in federal elections increased to 9.4 percent in 2012 from 2.6 percent in 1991, and during that time physician contributors shifted away from Republicans toward Democrats, especially in specialties dominated by women or those that are traditionally lower paying such as pediatrics, according to a new study by Adam Bonica, Ph.D., of Stanford University, California, and colleagues.

Dong is accused of trying to evade limits on campaign contributions in several ways, for example, by using the name of his daughter, then a minor, as a campaign contributor.

There is currently a crowd funding campaign ongoing at Indiegogo to help raise the funds to make the film happen in exchange for some killer perks, including being featured in the film itself, getting a Michael Myers mask signed by Tony Moran, or a special $ 10 raffle - style perk in which a lucky contributor's name will be drawn at the end of the campaign and they will actually be put in a scene playing a neighbor who gets killed by Michael Myers.

This lawsuit was filed by a variety of liberal groups, most notably the Washington Educators Association, the state teachers union, who also happened to be major campaign contributors to every Supreme Court justice who sided with their organization.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor Educators and education experts discussed parental engagement, equity in education and teacher diversity, during a special breakfast session for the NNPA's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Public Awareness Campaign in Washington, D.C..

During the first week of January, the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance announced it had levied a $ 31,000 fine on Strong Economy for Growth (SEFG), charging the group violated finance laws in 2016 by not making public its contributors.