Sentences with phrase «dollars from»

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.

Curran, a former newspaper reporter and Baldwin school board member, touted endorsements from Jacobs and nearly every elected Democrat in the county and has raised more than $ 1 million, including tens of thousands of dollars from developers and county vendors.

This week also saw closing arguments in the corruption trial of Pedro Espada, Jr., the former state senate majority leader accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a publicly funded healthcare system in order to finance his lavish personal lifestyle.

Cuomo took tens of thousands of dollars from people affiliated with Fortis [the developer who is buying LICH from the state], as we can tell, because we can't look at the PACs.

Disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer showed up at Manhattan court Friday to testify against the reputed high - priced hooker arrested for allegedly extorting thousands of dollars from him.

Sampson, 47, whose district covers Crown Heights and East Flatbush as well as parts of Brownsville and Canarsie, was charged with using his position as a court - appointed lawyer in foreclosure proceedings to siphon off nearly half a million dollars from real estate escrow accounts that he controlled on four Brooklyn properties, prosecutors allege.

It seems fairly obvious that Make the Road, which receives millions of dollars from local and state government to provide social services, is siphoning some of that money to an ostensibly independent «Action Fund» in order to campaign for elected officials who will, lo and behold, allocate money to Make the Road.

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.

Investigators executed a search warrant this morning on the Bronx nonprofit of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, who is accused of looting millions of dollars from the government - funded health clinic.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

«If they wanted to really get the best state incentive, they could get tens of millions of dollars from any state to bring 600 jobs.

Richard Thomas was arrested in March for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from his campaign accounts and lying on campaign finance reports

Expressing his argument in an analogy he said: «You go and borrow a 100,000 dollars from the bank and the agreement is that you will pay $ 10,000 every month for 10 months, including the interest.

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in nearly a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

He restated the comments by the former PRO of the Presby Church, Dr. Emmanuel Acheampong that Prof. Martey is corrupt and a liar after accepting a bribe of 10, 000 dollars from a presidential candidate of a leading political party in Ghana.

This economy is shrinking badly, and Walker, his Republican buddies, and removing nearly a billion dollars from circulation by cutting education budgets are to blame.

Didn't he cave in a couple of years ago after taking thousands of dollars from NYSUT and vote with a «heavy heart» for a budget that included changes in the teacher evaluation law that quite severely tied teacher ratings to test scores?

Haggarty was indicted earlier this year and charged with stealing nearly a million dollars from Bloomberg's campaign.

Since 2009, Albany has stolen roughly $ 260 million dollars from dedicated transit funds in an attempt to plug the state government's enormous deficits.

«Ruben Wills betrayed the trust of all New Yorkers when he abused his position in the State Senate to steal thousands of dollars from the hardworking taxpayers of New York for his own selfish gain,» City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said in a statement.

In her State of the County address, County Executive Joanie Mahoney announced that $ 20 million dollars from the region's Upstate Revitalization Initiative will go towards Syracuse's Say Yes to Education endowment.

The Queens Republican operative convicted of stealing more than a million dollars from the mayor was led off to prison Monday to begin serving a sentence of at least a year.

A city that relied heavily on dollars from payments by a Native - run casino within its borders is now living without that money and making some tough decisions to address a budget gap.

New York faces a June 1 deadline for relaxing rules for charter schools to boost its chances of winning about half a billion dollars from the federal Race to the Top program.

According to multiple sources, none other than John Haggerty, a convicted felon who stole a million dollars from Michael Bloomberg and is out on appeal pending his request for a retrial.

NEW YORK — A high - priced Russian call girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday to allegedly trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, CBS New York reports.

The law was strengthened after the 1996 Bill Clinton re-election effort had to disgorge millions of dollars from illegal donors.

And he's accused of failing to disclose on his city ethics forms gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars from a campaign adviser, relatives, other individuals and their companies for credit - card expenses, reimbursement to the inaugural committee and tuition for his master's degree at New York University.»

Walsh was convicted last year of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Suffolk sheriff's department while golfing, gambling and politicking on county time.

Although we can not eliminate corruption, we can change Albany's culture of dialing for dollars from lobbyists and deep pocketed special interests.

Since winning election to the House in New York's 4th District in 2014, she has subsequently spent thousands of dollars from the DA campaign account on ads, consulting services, and donations to local Democratic groups that have actively worked on her elections to the House, according to a report by Crain's New York.

Edward Walsh, the former politically powerful Suffolk County Conservative Party leader, was sentenced Tuesday to 2 years in prison following his conviction on federal charges of wire fraud and theft of government services for pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Suffolk sheriff's department while golfing, gambling and politicking on county time.

LAGOS — The Naira remained stable at N295 per dollar in the parallel market, yesterday, as Bureau de Change, BDC, operators await the release of modalities on how to source dollars from autonomous sources.

New York hedge fund Alden Global Capital siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from one of America's largest news chains, a new lawsuit charges, damaging local news organizations to finance insider investment deals.

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to revoke the bail of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who was convicted in May after a prolonged and colorful trial of stealing close to half a million dollars from Soundview, the federally funded Bronx health clinic he founded and ran for years with the assistance of allies and members of his family.

The meeting, according to ABCON President, Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, was to discuss the modalities for BDCs to source autonomous dollars from oil firms through the assistance of the CBN.

«Fighting against corruption is also a fight to protect our hard earned tax dollars from corrupt politicians who are more concerned with personally profiting from their office.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office has threatened to reject future requests for lucrative stipend payments — AKA lulus — worth tens of thousands of dollars from the Republican - led state Senate as a result of its continued use of false committee titles to draw down payments for senators who are part of its ruling coalition.

Of course, Epsada currently has much bigger legal fish to fry, since the feds have accused him of embezzling millions of taxpayer dollars from the Soundview Health Network he founded in the Bronx.

Former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and his son, Pedro G., were indicted yet again for allegedly bilking hundreds of thousands of dollars from their healthcare network, Soundview, which received both federal and state funding.

Spitzer eventually released just two pages of his tax returns, which did not reveal any information about his investments, although his Conflict of Interests Board filing shows he makes millions of dollars from his family real estate business and has no debts.

Have you got a billion dollars from Albany?

Schneiderman's office says the vast majority of funding for Christian Community In Action received tens of millions of dollars from the Medicaid program, while the Christian Community Benevolent Association received about $ 495,000 in member item grants.

The result: tens of millions of dollars from small donors, people that the campaign can go back to over and over for money.

A Bronx man has pleaded guilty to charges that he embezzled more than half a million dollars from two taxpayer - funded Bronx charities founded by state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. over an eight - year period, AG Eric Schneiderman announced today.

The fact that were taking some tax dollars from Buffalonians and giving them back to them, it's going to feel good for the short term but that's not sustainable for the long term,» said Astorino.

But Slaughter's camp said Brooks has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from «PACs who have led the attack on women's health.»

The second means was squeezing out dollars from the agricultural sector through increases of taxes and quotas on commodity exports.

They stole tens of thousands of dollars from crazy Carl's campaign and even lied about endorsements by printing the wrong candidates name on mailers going out to tens of thousands of people in 2010 (picking Jay Townsend over Gary Bernstein without authorization.

«Importing LIE traffic to Westchester will overwhelm our roads and communities, add billions of tons of carbon emissions into our air, and divert desperately needed infrastructure dollars from being spent where they are truly needed — on our existing roads, bridges, and rail systems.