Sentences with phrase «dollars of campaign contributions»

Last week the Times Ledger reported that Barone Management made an unauthorized dumping in a large residential development in Northeast Queens, but what you may not know is that Senator Tony Avella, who denounced the dumping, has quietly accepted thousands of dollars of campaign contributions, according to CFB reports from the imprudent company as well as other entities which took part in the dumping.

Certain details about the developer, such as the company's hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions through limited liability companies, could describe any number of real estate companies.

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.

In return the charter schools have showered millions of dollars of campaign contributions on these senators.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Enneking's campaign account shows nearly 200 contributions for April, and like her previous report, the vast majority came in from small - dollar donors within the borders of the North Central Florida Senate district.

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

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.