Prominent House Democrats are offering a trip to the Super Bowl, club level seats at a Lady Gaga concert, and tickets to a host of other entertainment events in exchange for high -
dollar campaign contributions.
Not exact matches
United States officials had been shaken by tape recordings in which people identified as leaders of the Cali cartel were heard discussing
contributions of millions of
dollars to Mr. Samper's presidential
campaign.
Congressional Democrats began giving away some of the thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions they had received from Weinstein, moving to distance themselves from him after revelations he had reached at least eight settlements with women accusing him of sexual harassment.
In return the charter schools have showered millions of
dollars of
campaign contributions on these senators.
Allies of the mayor are under investigation in part for channeling millions of
dollars in
campaign donations to county committees, which allowed them to seemingly avoid
contribution limits when those
dollars wound up in the coffers of individual candidates.
«Additionally, it is an outrage that Senate Democratic
Campaign Committee Chairman Senator Michael Gianaris is refusing to return almost half a million dollars in dirty campaign contributions from Senator Kruger to the co
Campaign Committee Chairman Senator Michael Gianaris is refusing to return almost half a million
dollars in dirty
campaign contributions from Senator Kruger to the co
campaign contributions from Senator Kruger to the committee.
«Over the last few months we've seen a surge in low -
dollar contributions, as more and more of my neighbors here in the Hudson Valley and Catskills join us for stops along our 163 town Rhodes Trip and want to chip in to help keep fueling the Winnebago and support our growing grassroots
campaign,» Rhodes said.
The group, which has pushed for an overhaul of
campaign - finance laws in the past year, found that corporate and large -
dollar donations made up nearly three - fourths of the
contributions to Senate lawmakers.
Cynthia Nixon has already raked in more small -
dollar contributions in one day than her rival Gov. Andrew Cuomo did in seven years, the star actress»
campaign announced.
Jay and Jerry Wartski, for instance, have given his
campaigns ample
contributions, totaling in the thousands of
dollars.
«Because regular people don't give millions of
dollars in
campaign contributions.»
Policy agendas for important issues like the 421a tax abatement and New York City rent laws are being set by publicly elected leaders who have become dependent on the real estate industry's onslaught of millions of
dollars in
campaign contributions.
The Skelos complaint shows how the multiple Limited Liability Companies, or LLCs, controlled by Glenwood can be used to coordinate and bundle hundreds of thousands of
dollars of
campaign contributions in order to buy favorable policy outcomes and tax breaks.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, ranked eighth among House freshman in so - called «small
dollar» donations, individual
contributions of less than $ 200 that are unitemized, in the third quarter, according to a Post-Star analysis of
campaign finance reports.
He gave our tax
dollars to groups whose members then made
contributions to his
campaign.
Cuomo received thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions from a company involved in a controversial program that provides U.S. visas to big
dollar foreign investors.
Common Cause / NY Examines Fracking
Contributions A new analysis by Common Cause / NY illustrates that millions of
dollars have flowed from fracking interests in New York to state and local
campaigns.
«Between in or around 2010 and in and around September 2015, I gave and raised tens of thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions to an elected New York City official in exchange for efforts by that official... and other City officials to obtain action from a New York City agency that would benefit myself and restaurants I owned.»
Grodenchik has received more than ten thousand
dollars from other politicians»
campaign committees, for example, and Lynch has taken close to $ 50,000 — more than half of her
contributions — from labor unions.
Over two million
dollars in
campaign contributions from the gambling industry to Albany politicians in the last two years, plus $ 2.6 million to the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York.
«They've painted a picture of essentially the use of taxpayer
dollars to leverage
campaign contributions and enrich close associates of the governor,» said NYPIRG's Blair Horner.
Liberal activist groups last week called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return thousands of
dollars he has received in
campaign contributions from Daniel Loeb, a billionaire who has come under criticism for racially charged remarks directed at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.
4) For the many prominent politicians in both parties, from several states, who've taken
campaign contributions from Joseph Pontoriero, Worth Construction, or any permutation thereof, one used 6000
dollar suit.
But Sugarman said there is evidence demonstrating that the de Blasio team coordinated its fundraising activities and intentionally solicited significantly higher - than - allowed
contributions for three candidates — totaling hundreds of thousands of
dollars — by having the checks sent to the two county committees and the Senate Democratic
Campaign Committee, which then quickly transferred the funds to the
campaigns.
The Assembly bill would offer an optional public financing system for
campaigns for state legislative and statewide offices, giving candidates six
dollars for every one
dollar in
contributions.
The top ten Committee - linked donors have given about a million
dollars to Cuomo in
campaign contributions.
Ralph Nader condemned the ruling, [79] saying that «With this decision, corporations can now directly pour vast amounts of corporate money, through independent expenditures, into the electoral swamp already flooded with corporate
campaign PAC
contribution dollars.»
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo received thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions from a company involved in a controversial program that provides U.S. visas to big
dollar foreign investors.
«Our
campaign's focus on grassroots, small -
dollar donors has powered us to more than 11,000
contributions, and we are now fully funded for a Primary
campaign,» said Elana Leopold, finance director for de Blasio's
campaign, in a statement.
That's consistent with the Cuomo
campaign statement that they have focused on large
dollar contributors, but still surprising and a powerful demonstration of the effect of New York's high
contribution limits.
Meanwhile, Bill Samuels, a co-founder of Effective NY, has urging the commission to investigate millions of
dollars in
campaign contributions by business interests formed as limited liability corporations.
Though labor unions criticize the LLC loophole as a method for circumventing individual
campaign contributions and call for its closure, they use affiliates to pump millions of
dollars into the political system, creating a double standard — according to critics.
Buffalo Sen. Marc Panepinto has raised tens of thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions from lawyers who were arguing cases before his wife.
Referred to as «Uncle Leland» by his co-conspirators, the San Francisco Democrat allegedly offered to smuggle millions of
dollars worth of automatic weapons into the United States from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines in exchange for
campaign contributions, according to the FBI affidavit.
Malliotakis has said she opposes public financing of elections but she will be participating in the
Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program, which matches small
dollar contributions up to $ 175 at a 6 - to - 1 ratio with public funds.
In the final three weeks of the 2012 election cycle, Democrat
campaign committees transferred more than a quarter - million
dollars in special interest
campaign contributions to help bolster the
campaign of Sharon Quirk - Silva, who helped secure Democrats two - thirds majority in the Assembly.
Over the past two years, nearly all of his
campaign funds have come from thousand -
dollar - plus
contributions, which seems a far cry from the kind of small - donor - driven operation typified by Sen. Bernie Sanders»
campaign in the last Democratic presidential primary.
Cruz said her April
campaign and committee reports will show $ 146,600 in
contributions for the 21 days she was a candidate last month, putting her just a few thousand
dollars shy of Young's $ 152,500 effort for the whole of April.
De Blasio
campaign spokesman Dan Levitan defended the timing of the solicitation, claiming Hizzoner «has received more low -
dollar contributions from individual, everyday New Yorkers than any candidate for mayor — Democrat or Republican — in more than two decades.
«We are proud to be powered by low -
dollar contributions from regular New Yorkers,» said De Blasio
campaign spokesman Dan Levitan.
«I think it's like a racist statement that they are questioning the three people of color and they always bring up money,» Alcantara said in a phone interview, pointing to reports of thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions she received from the IDC.
The LLC Loophole is the main way that real estate companies like Glenwood Management, a major player in both the Skelos and Silver scandals, have given millions of
dollars to political
campaigns despite
contribution limits on individuals and corporations.
Those taxi firms have made tens of thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions to the county's elected leaders in recent years, state
campaign finance records show.
The loophole has allowed special interest groups to funnel tens of millions of
dollars into political
campaigns, sometimes in secret, and circumvent
contribution limits that individuals would otherwise have to follow, according to the Brennan Center, which has sued New York's Board of Elections to try to force it to close the loophole.
Enneking's
campaign report wasn't as top heavy — just 14 max checks were among her 242
contributions, including more than 200 small -
dollar donations of $ 250 or less.
Hundreds of thousands of
dollars in combined
campaign contributions by Sandy contractors to Nassau County...
Federal prosecutors alleged that Menedez carried out «official favors» for his friend and Democratic donor Melgen in exchange for private jet flights, vacations, and hundreds of thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions.
Governor Andrew Cuomo swept into town Wednesday for a few hours and left with hundreds of thousands of
dollars for his
campaign till, to add to the $ 14 - million he already has in
campaign contributions.
During a closed court appearance in 2016, Singh testified that he bribed de Blasio with tens of thousands of
dollars in
campaign contributions so the mayor and other officials would arrange a «favorable» renewal of the lease on his since - shuttered Water's Edge restaurant in Long Island City, Queens.
Democrats are on a torrid fundraising pace in the first months of the Donald Trump era, powered by enraged small donors who are plowing millions of
dollars worth of online
contributions into
campaign and committee treasuries.