Sentences with phrase «creating slush funds»
Governor Perry tries to pick winners and losers by creating slush funds that give taxpayer money to connected corporations and his campaign contributors.
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Or as the WFLC's spokeperson Kenan Block put it, «We believe Canada was either a willing or an unwitting partner in creating what's become a pro-timber industry slush fund in the United States.»
Prosecutors say Fonvil and co-defendant Jermika Depas used camp funds as a personal piggy bank, creating a $ 8,000 slush fund.
But in that latter year, he joined with the Legislature's leaders to create a new Dorm Authority slush fund, the State and Municipal Facilities Program.
Asked whether her slush - fund scandal should be an issue in this mayoral race, Quinn said she was proud of the reforms she instituted post-scandal to create a verification system «heralded by good - government groups.»
The new payments include $ 16.5 million from what critics have called a $ 400 million slush fund that was created in last year's budget by Dean Skelos, the former Senate Republican leader.
It was intended to justify a global tax - with the American taxpayer getting soaked the most - to create a giant slush fund for the world political elite, the result of which would make those elitists richer and everyone else poorer.
It has set in motion a process that accretes constituencies and sucks in government agencies as it extends its scope and strengthens its hold by creating the justification for huge slush funds of climate finance.
Today's decision takes hundreds of millions of dollars out of customers» pockets in order to create a massive slush fund for FirstEnergy Corp. and its shareholders.