Sentences with phrase «contracts from»

When Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras in 1998, it destroyed more than 20 years of infrastructure, including all of my dad's contracts from his construction business.

«Our goal is to get research contracts from the world of industry and commerce into McGill so that our scientists can do research that is relevant to market needs, relevant to real people and real places, and engages society as a whole.»

The agencies that handle the bulk of the state's construction work do not pay contractors for these kinds of expenses, according to interviews and a review of policies and contracts from the state Dormitory Authority, the SUNY Construction Fund, Empire State Development, the Department of Transportation and the Thruway Authority.

Despite her role as Silver's top aide and her husband's job as head of a charity organization that has received millions of dollars in government contracts from the city and state — including appropriations from Silver — friends insist the couple do not discuss work with each other.

A mayoral spokesman said almost half of universal pre-K contracts have been registered if 128 contracts from the Administration for Children's Services are factored in.

Worse, according to Mr. Stringer, was that the agency, now under the leadership of Mr. de Blasio's appointee Shola Olatoye, refused to admit that it had been derelict in its duties when faced with the comptroller's findings — even though the audit covered contracts from the Bloomberg Administration.

Back in January Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order preventing ISPs with state contracts from blocking, throttling or prioritizing internet content, a move supported by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who confirmed that city contracts in the coming years will only go to compliant ISPs.

The complaint describes a conference call between Adam Skelos, Dean Skelos and an Abtech executive where the senator advised Abtech to seek contracts from counties, which were charged with overseeing relief money in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

He also called for legislation a «blackout period» that would prevent companies that have responded to a state request - for - proposal from donating to politicians, and the recipients of contracts from contributing to a campaign for half a year afterward.

The new Management of COCOBOD, upon the assumption of office in February 2017, had a liability of US$ 280 million (equivalent to 61,894 metric tonnes) to serve as a result of rolling over contracts from 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons.

Singh, whose sprawling business interests include restaurants, concession stands and a catering service, has landed several lucrative contracts from Nassau County and Oyster Bay.

Okupe, who was also quizzed for allegedly receiving some dubious contracts from a local council in Niger State to the tune of N76.5 m, said his company, Romix soilfix, was one of the over 20 construction companies who were duly awarded contracts for rural roads some five years ago by the Niger State Government.

Percoco stands accused of pocketing more than $ 300,000 in bribes from three businessmen who wanted contracts from the state.

The cash is the outstanding sum in the accounts of five of the six companies owned by Ogor with which he allegedly secured contracts from some agencies as constituency projects.

It will provide mentoring, training and technical assistance to help small businesses — particularly those owned by women, veterans or people of color — win contracts from the Defense Department and General Services Administration.

The Old Bethpage - based company has gotten at least $ 100 million in publicly bid county work since 2002, and millions of dollars in road contracts from Oyster Bay in recent years.

Five million people employed in England's public services should receive individual contracts from their employers, instead of pay and conditions set at national level.

Professor Kassim Kassanga, former Minister of Lands and Forestry secretly re-awarded 42 Timber Utilisation Contracts from the NDC era that the NPP Government had cancelled to cronies and favorites of the NPP in gross violation of the principles of transparency, among which beneficiaries was Mrs. Comfort Wereko - Brobbey, President Kufuor's sister whose husband was a member of the Forestry Commission Board and who was given 89 square kilometres of the Asukese Forest Reserve.

In addition, lawmakers will have to report outside clients and customers doing business with, receiving grants or contracts from, seeking legislation or resolutions from, or involved in cases or proceedings before the state as well as such clients brought to the firm by the public official.

Percoco is accused of receiving payments from companies that had sought lucrative contracts from the state.

Morinello called for reducing the contribution limits for political campaigns; barring companies that receive state contracts from making political donations for a year after the contract is awarded; and banning legislators from making «member item» grants to any organization that has made political contributions to state officials or committees.

«Asian Americans, especially the Chinese community, never get any contracts from the government,» Liu said.

Former state officers and employees are broadly prohibited from lobbying, or seeking contracts from their former agencies for two years after they leave state service.

The Lizza company has received tens of millions of dollars in contracts from Oyster Bay Town, Nassau County, and New York State, and is a large - scale contributor to both Republican and Democratic candidates, but more heavily to Republicans, according to records.

The Lizza business, considered one of the largest road contractors on Long Island, has had tens of millions of dollars in contracts from both Oyster Bay and Nassau County over the years.

Also, Turner, in the letter by Amuda Kannike (SAN) & Co signed by O.N. Anugbum denied getting multiple contracts from the NDDC.

In addition, Cuomo would outlaw companies vying for state contracts from making campaign donations from the time the request for proposals go out.

Some 680 New York businesses have won contracts from Tappan Zee Constructors, the entity that oversees the project.

The allegation is that Ciminelli's company paid Howe, a former Albany lobbyist, a «consultancy» fee that, in reality, was a bribe intended to help them win contracts from the state.

Amid continuing investigations of Nassau's contracting procedures, county Republican leaders have agreed to increase public scrutiny by dropping the threshold required for a legislative vote on county contracts from $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

She complains about zero hours contracts from those doing care in the UK.

After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $ 30 million in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency tarps and plastic...

The company has received military contracts from the Pentagon during Hanna's two terms in Congress.

The company has received contracts from the state for numerous projects under Cuomo.

For example, the Executive proposes to exempt agency contracts from the State Comptroller's review and approval.

With prodding from the State Senate head, the Arizona - based firm sought contracts from Nassau County for state - financed post-Sandy drainage and waste treatment infrastructure.

State Sen. Terrence Murphy, who represents northern Westchester in the 40th District, asked for documents and contracts from the Department of Corrections with JPay.

Seifman has previously reported that MacKay's wife's firm, Government Response Inc., has received contracts from others currying favor with the Indys — notably the Senate Republicans and Manhattan BP Scott Stringer, who is eyeing a mayoral run in 2013.

We need to prohibit those lobbying politicians or getting state contracts from making campaign donations.

Nearly $ 36,000 was donated by various law firms that are set to receive contracts from the County on Thursday.

It did this by taking the 22 contracts from 13 different suppliers, scrapping them, and instead handing just six contracts to three suppliers - G4S, Serco and Clearel - only the latter of which has any experience in this area.

Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves said Nassau's contracting process «is the most transparent in the state» as the legislature moved to drop the threshold for legislative approval of personal service contracts from the current $ 25,000 to $ 1,000.

While there's no evidence the donations and the capital allocation were connected, it's a stark example of what seems to be a universal truth of politics: many of those who donate to a politician will also seek approvals, money or contracts from those politicians once they're in office.

Joe Nicolla / Columbia Development Corporation Campaign contributions to Andrew Cuomo: $ 320,000 State contracts from state controlled non-profits: $ 190m

Repsol YPF of Spain and OMV of Austria also hold large contracts from the Gaddafi era, while Britain's BP have taken a leading role in developing Libya's emerging gas fields, and will now hope also to ramp up their activities in oil exploration and production.

As investigations commissioner, she will have subpoena power to probe suspicious contracts from any county department.

But Alexander Caro said Sunday that his soon - to - be ex, who runs a public relations firm called BluChip Marketing, did score no - bid contracts from Nassau County with Mangano's help.

CMA deals mostly with information technology contracts from local and state governments, and hired former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno as its CEO after his retirement from the State Senate in 2008.

Western Regional Off - Track Betting, where Wojtaszek is president, paid Aronow's Regency Communications firm $ 73,000 in consulting contracts from 2014 to 2017.

Anthony Gulino, a former contractor who had been awarded millions of dollars in contracts from Nassau County and the Town of Oyster Bay testified Thursday that he gave Edward Mangano $ 3,600 in cash after a job in 2012 to ensure that the then - county executive «would take care» of any of the contractor's problems.