Sentences with phrase «by city campaign finance law»

The donations were allowed because the mayor's political nonprofit was not governed by city campaign finance law.

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It was announced today that Kerrey, the former president of the New School in New York City, had signed on to the effort to tighten campaign finance laws by introducing a voluntary public matching system similar to New York City and lower contribution limits.

The controversial WFP, which is under investigation for possible violations of the New York City campaign - finance law, was founded nearly a decade ago by left - wing labor unions and political activists, and has emerged as a potent force in helping Democratic candidates.

She has not yet met the threshold set by the City's campaign finance law, but today expressed optimism that she'll do so.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has agreed to pay a $ 7,000 fine to settle charges that she violated the city's campaign finance law by accepting free consulting advice from a lobbyist to land her post in 2City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has agreed to pay a $ 7,000 fine to settle charges that she violated the city's campaign finance law by accepting free consulting advice from a lobbyist to land her post in 2city's campaign finance law by accepting free consulting advice from a lobbyist to land her post in 2013.

The suburban seat was targeted by New York City Democrats including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who funneled over $ 500,000 to Murphy's opponent through the use of straw donor committees using a loophole in New York State campaign finance law.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has agreed to pay a $ 7,000 fine to settle charges that she violated the city's campaign finance law by accepting free consulting advice from City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has agreed to pay a $ 7,000 fine to settle charges that she violated the city's campaign finance law by accepting free consulting advice from city's campaign finance law by accepting free consulting advice from a...

Cuomo has said that he wants to overhaul the state's campaign finance laws by closing loopholes, lowering contribution limits and instituting a public financing system similar to what's in effect for New York City.

«As the jury found, Jia Hou and Oliver Pan stuck a knife into the heart of New York City's campaign finance law by violating the prohibition against illegal campaign contributions, all to corruptly advantage the campaign of a candidate for citywide office,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a press release.

Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't violate the city's campaign finance laws by soliciting unlimited donations through a nonprofit organization — but the Campaign Finance Board today offered a stinging rebuke of the practice and called for the City Council to close a «loophole» that allowscity's campaign finance laws by soliciting unlimited donations through a nonprofit organization — but the Campaign Finance Board today offered a stinging rebuke of the practice and called for the City Council to close a «loophole» that alcampaign finance laws by soliciting unlimited donations through a nonprofit organization — but the Campaign Finance Board today offered a stinging rebuke of the practice and called for the City Council to close a «loophole» that allfinance laws by soliciting unlimited donations through a nonprofit organization — but the Campaign Finance Board today offered a stinging rebuke of the practice and called for the City Council to close a «loophole» that alCampaign Finance Board today offered a stinging rebuke of the practice and called for the City Council to close a «loophole» that allFinance Board today offered a stinging rebuke of the practice and called for the City Council to close a «loophole» that allowsCity Council to close a «loophole» that allows it.

Meanwhile, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has another panel hearing arguments that the mayor and his closest political assistants deliberately circumvented campaign finance laws in their failed 2014 effort to flip the State Senate to the Democrats, by directing donors (many of whom also had business before the city) to funnel money into upstate party committees instead of into candidates» individual campaign accounts — thus bypassing state contribution caps.

To combat that influence, City Council Member Brad Lander proposed limiting REBNY's influence on political campaigns by urging the council to close the so - called «LLC loophole» in state campaign finance law, Crain's New York reported.

Among Ganim's reported expenses in the last three months were $ 10,000 for the Simsbury law firm that unsuccessfully represented him in his effort to overturn a state law that barred him from participating in the public campaign financing system because of his felony conviction and more than $ 3,400 to reimburse the city of Bridgeport for the mileage driven by the city police detective who chauffeurs him to political events as well as events in his official capacity as mayor.