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• Make sure that third parties are subject to the same donation limits as political parties and candidates, as well as increased transparency around their activities.

Not exact matches

(As the Globe and Mail notes, the threat might be symbolic, since Massachusetts has rather strict limits on campaign donations and Markey was the Democratic front - runner anyway.

Although these statutes typically contain no express limit on the size of permissible gifts, courts interpreting the statutes require corporate charitable donations to be reasonable both as to the amount and the purpose for which they are given.

, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

If the money was connected to Trump's ongoing presidential campaign, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federal law.

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

Clinton's 2016 campaign and the DNC allegedly used state chapters as straw men to launder as much as $ 84 million in an effort to circumvent campaign donation limits, and the FEC ignored complaints exposing the practice, a new lawsuit claims.

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It's still a donation and not given my people it's given as a block it should be limited to the same amount, of course Labour will scream.

Many of the measures were listed on Cuomo's 2018 State of the State agenda, including closing a loophole in election law that allows for unlimited political donations through a network of limited liabilities companies, as well as early voting.

Major real estate developers, using limited liability companies, funneled six figures in donations to the Democratic Organization of Queens County in the time before U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley, its chair, selected gentrification - friendly Councilmember Corey Johnson as the new speaker of the New York City Council.

The actors have endorsed the Fair Elections reform package which includes a system of matching small donations with public funds, as well as lower contribution limits, restrictions on contractors and lobbyists doing business with the state, and greater enforcement and transparency.

Flanagan is in a tough position as he has assumed the position of being the stalwart champion of continued corruption in NY State unless he delivers income limits and limits on donations.

Obama's fundraising over the same period relied on plenty of big - dollar donors as well, but even then his campaign noted the advantage that a much larger base of small - dollar donors gave them: «Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki repeated the campaign's emphasis on the 98 percent of its donations that were $ 250 or less — meaning that those donors are under the limit and can continue to contribute.»

When Mr. Cuomo ran for governor in 2010, he characterized large LLC contributions as one of the campaign finance system's «loopholes,» proposing that such donations be counted against the parent company's $ 5,000 contribution limit, to make that limit «meaningful.»

But a loophole allows companies to create unlimited amounts of limited liability corporations known as LLCs that can each give up to $ 150,000 in campaign donations.

During the same time period, he received $ 4.4 million in donations from political action committees, $ 25.5 million in donations from individuals and $ 17.74 million in donations from committees, unions and limited liability companies, nearly five times as much as he received from corporations.

With the forfeiture amendment set to be considered, other reform proposals, such as preventing unlimited donations through limited liability companies, remain up in the air.

Sugarman's memo paints a picture of a coordinated effort by the mayor and his allies — dubbed interchangeably as «Team de Blasio» and «Team Coordinated» — to deliberately circumvent legal campaign donation limits in three upstate races in what turned out to be an unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.

The D.A.'s office was specifically investigating whether de Blasio's aides had purposefully circumvented state campaign finance donation limits, by rerouting large donations through county Democratic campaign committees, which then funneled donations to campaign accounts for State Senate candidates as part of the mayor's push to flip the chamber to Democratic control.

• Whether or not Better for the Country Limited was the true source of donations made to referendum campaigners in its name, or if it was acting as an agent.

It also looks as if he's set on protecting big trade union donations whilst putting limits on everyone else.»

The newspaper reports Cuomo, who once campaigned against the use of LLCs or Limited Liability Corporations as a convenient loophole to get around campaign donation limits, himself received 20 percent of his $ 47 million in donations from LLCs.

Meanwhile, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School plans to push for a system of public funds to match smaller donations as a way to limit the influence of big money donors in campaign fundraising.

He wants to create a public financing system, limit donations to housekeeping committees to $ 25,000, require bimonthly instead of semiannual disclosure, and close the «LLC loophole» that treats limited liability companies as individuals for the purpose of determining contribution limits.

If Flanagn does not produce a bill that limits outside income and controls donations (bribes) he will forever be known as a stalwart champion of continued corruption!

Cuomo has previously called for an end to the so - called loophole in election law that allows unlimited donations through limited liability companies as well as limits to the amount of money state lawmakers can earn outside of public service.

As today's Siena poll showed, nearly 2/3 of New Yorkers in every part of the state support real reforms that limit the size of fat - cat contributions and replacing them with small donations that are matched by public money.

Kaminsky announced Monday he would back a pledge that vowed to back closing the loophole in state election law that allows limited liability companies to give unlimited donations as well as limit outside income for state lawmakers and curtail the use of discretionary spending in the budget.

The election law issue at hand is known as «earmarking» — which is also the memo's title — and refers to whether a donation has been passed through one campaign committee to another in a concerted effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits.

It's one example of how union dollars can enhance campaign accounts far beyond donation limits in New York, through what critics view as gaps in state election law.

Another involves de Blasio's fundraising on behalf of Democratic state Senate candidates in 2014, and whether individual donations de Blasio's team solicited were channeled to county committees before being sent to individual candidates as part of a coordinated effort to evade donation limits.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that an independent conservative group supporting Republican Joe Lhota for New York City Mayor can accept unlimited donations because New York State's limit on donations to independent political committees is likely unconstitutional, as the New York Times reports.

As someone who works in a company that places official restrictions on political donations due to various regulations, it seems possible to me that similar restrictions may have played a role; however, I'm completely unfamiliar with whether any political donation limits exist in government positions that this individual held.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who appear to be fighting for the right to meet de Blasio in a runoff — if there is a runoff — took the public advocate to task for flip - flopping on issues such as term limits, for what Quinn called «pie - in - the - sky» promises about education and for accepting campaign donations from building owners who appeared on a slumlord watch list.

Those limits on candidate donations have been dramatically surpassed by the increasingly common practice of using nonprofit groups as a vehicle to make unlimited contributions to independent political committees.

Sponsor Dan Squadron (D - 26), who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, made the case at the Senate Elections Committee meeting, saying the measure requires that LLCs be more transparent, and that the founders of multiple LLCs be subject to the same $ 5,000 donation limit in place for corporations and not be used «as a way for individuals and other corporate interests to skirt campaign finance regulations.»

Cuomo's budget aims to close the so - called LLC loophole by treating LLCs as corporations subject to a strict $ 5,000 - a-year donation limit, instead of individuals who face less restrictions.

Well - heeled campaign contributors can now funnel millions of dollars of cash into political Super PACS after a federal judge Thursday struck down New York's $ 150,000 limit on such donations as...

It's tiring to hear the governor say that «you can only live within the system that exists» while he rakes in campaign cash that comes overwhelmingly in donations of $ 10,000 or more and takes advantage of a loophole that treats limited liability corporations as individuals when they make campaign contributions, even if they're controlled by one individual.

In total, he made 19 donations through 12 limited liability corporations he created that share the same address as his development company, state records show.

(Inflation can raise donation levels in multiple ways, as quadrenially - adjusted contribution limits mean candidates can currently receive checks about a third larger those in 2003).

The other was # 50,000 from Arron Banks» firm Better for the Country Ltd, which is at the centre of another Commission investigation into «whether or not Better for the Country Limited was the true source of donations made to referendum campaigners in its name, or if it was acting as an agent.»

The top investigator at the state's Board of Elections asked prosecutors in January to investigate whether the mayor's advisers broke the law by channeling campaign contributions to Democratic state Senate candidates through a committee not subject to donation limits, so as to evade them.

«The bill is, in effect, party funding legislation but is only partial reform in that it impacts solely upon the Labour party while not addressing issues such as donation caps or spending limits,» he said.

Sponsor Dan Squadron, a Democrat who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, made the case at the Senate Elections Committee meeting, saying the measure requires that LLC's be more transparent, and that the founders of multiple LLC's be subject to the same $ 5,000 donation limit in place for corporations and not be used «as a way for individuals and other corporate interests to skirt campaign finance regulations.»

Government watchdog groups also noted that evidence showed Percoco and other Cuomo staffers using private email to conduct public business, a lobbyist saying he was advised by an administration official that registering as a lobbyist would make it more difficult to operate, and a contributor being coached on how to hide donations to Cuomo to avoid campaign limits.

Housekeeping accounts are regarded by critics as loopholes that can be used to override direct donation limits to candidates.

«Blood is a limited resource and we have a responsibility as a health care provider to optimize the use of a resource that is difficult to get and only available through altruistic donations,» she said.

This year, Julie will be auctioning off limited edition Blue - Eyed Girl Lacquers plus donations from other indie brands such as Alter Ego, Northern Star Polish, Monster Polish, Ever After, Superficially Colorful, Girly Bits, Paint Box Polish, The Polish Bar, Chaos & Crocodiles, SuperChic Lacquer and Hypochondriac Polish.