He still collected over a million
dollars in campaign contributions in 2014 - 2015, and spent all but a fraction of it on donations to party committees and other candidates.
44 senators got millions of
dollars in campaign contributions from the oil industry.
I would respectfully suggest that «policy - makers within the GOP» have suffered much more «damage» from the millions of
dollars in campaign contributions they receive from the fossil fuel corporations.
Teachers» unions are playing a strong role in state elections this fall, providing candidates across the country with grassroots support, endorsements, and millions of
dollars in campaign contributions — the vast majority of that money flowing to Democrats.
Menendez is accused of carrying out «official favors» for his friend, Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, in exchange for private jet flights, vacations, and hundreds of thousands of
dollars in campaign contributions.
Evidence and testimony showed how some lawmakers can wield their considerable power to extort benefits for themselves or others; how the weak enforcement of lax financial disclosure requirements gives legislators ample opportunity to mask illegal payments as outside income; how moneyed real estate interests spend millions of
dollars in campaign contributions to influence legislation; and how power is concentrated in the hands of the so - called three men in a room: the legislative leaders and the governor.
As DNAinfo.com New York first reported, Schneiderman received tens of thousands of
dollars in campaign contributions from Esther and Joseph Markowitz, who live in upstate Monsey.
Prosecutors are expected to show during the trial that Glenwood used the LLCs to shower millions of
dollars in campaign contributions on political candidates, including Senator Skelos.
Gray has received roughly a half - million
dollars in campaign contributions in the last two weeks of the campaign, including late contributions from big business and big labor.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
Buffalo Sen. Marc Panepinto has raised tens of thousands of
dollars in campaign contributions from lawyers who were arguing cases before his wife.
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.
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.
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.
«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.»
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.
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.
«Because regular people don't give millions of
dollars in campaign contributions.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
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 Assembl
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 Assembl
in special interest
campaign contributions to help bolster the
campaign of Sharon Quirk - Silva, who helped secure Democrats two - thirds majority
in the Assembl
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.
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.
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.
Hundreds of thousands of
dollars in combined
campaign contributions by Sandy contractors to Nassau County...
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.
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.
Filings with the city
Campaign Finance Board show that the public advocate has been the leading recipient of union
contributions, with tens of thousands of
dollars in donations, alone, from local chapters nationwide of UNITE, which represents needle trades and textile industry workers.