Sentences with phrase «dollar slush fund»

German news magazine Der Spiegel have today alleged that the committee in charge of organising the German bid for the 2006 World Cup, a bid that was eventually successful, set up a multi-million dollar slush fund with the express purpose of purchasing votes.

a multimillion dollar slush fund?

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Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

This is clearly Kroenke, with no warning to Wenger et al, using the club as his own personal slush fund to back this new billion dollar loan he's trying to take out

«A gentleman never competes for money, directly or indirectly» he intoned in» Walter Camp's Book of College Sports,» all the while controlling a reputed $ 100,000 (about $ 2.5 million in today's dollars) slush fund for athletic «tutoring.»

While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»

When the US Attorney and FBI investigated the slush fund scandal, Quinn used taxpayer dollars to pay for her lawyers.

Mayor Bloomberg's documented slush fund, which spread millions of public dollars to favored groups and organizations with no oversight, set the tone for the culture of corruption and payoffs that dominate Council politics.

Last week we were treated to stories of how the billionaire Mayor had authorized hundreds of thousands of dollars from his private slush fund to community groups, without Councilmanic authorization, which he then tried to fake after the fact.

The Donna Reid Fund had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary funding, including money from Christine Quinn's infamous slush fFund had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary funding, including money from Christine Quinn's infamous slush fundfund.

The tax brings in so much money every year that millions of dollars collected by way of the tax were used as a virtual slush fund by the leaders of the Assembly and State Senate.

«Nevertheless, our members believe that unless we repeal Wilson Pakula, eliminate party slush funds, and prohibit multi-million dollar transfers from party committees to individual candidates, then we will fail to address the fundamental problems of our current campaign finance system.

A secretive, multi-million dollar taxpayer - funded slush fund used for years to pay off victims of sexual misconduct was tapped to settle a lawsuit against Queens Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks.

He said it's time to «end crony capitalism, corporate giveaways and so - called billion dollar top down economic development slush funds and replace it with a sustainable economy powered by growth in innovation industries attractive to our region's best talent.»

Sen. Klein would be happy to meet with Sen. Stewart - Cousins to enlist her support for a bill that repeals Wilson - Pakula, eliminates party slush funds and finally eliminates multimillion dollar transfers from party committees to individual candidates.»

It is stuffed full of billions of dollars of slush funds that the governor and legislative leaders can spend on just about anything, including giving hundreds of millions in tax dollar subsidies to companies and hospitals that make big campaign contributions,» said John Kaehny, director of the group Reinvent Albany.

Some of these Career Days are sponsored by individual department heads who have found a few extra dollars in some slush fund.

So the NEA's slush fund is in fact built by taxpayer dollars, which flow directly to the NEA instead of into the teacher's own bank account.

Nearly another half a million dollars that's not well accounted for may have been a personal slush fund for the charter holder — and may constitute fraud.

Surely, the wealthy family here or there can simply write up a $ 30,000 to $ 100,000 dollar check to cover the cost of the public or private colleges and universities, but the majority of people do not have such a large slush fund.

Think about billions of dollars donated to a slush fund for UN kleptomaniacs.

Under this scheme, selected nations («The rich») are marked to pour billions of dollars into a green slush fund.

The organisation has accepted millions of dollars from the likes of Exxon, family foundations built on polluting industries and many millions more via a slush fund financed by anonymous conservative millionaires.

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.