Sentences with phrase «door deals»

The confluence of money, backdoor dealing and secret behind closed door deals allows the abuse of power which harms our civic and legislative culture.

Another candidate for Jackson's seat, Cheryl Pahaham, accused Levine of attempting to make a back door deal with elected politicians to move her out of the Council District.

Sadly Kroenke got to the 50 % before Usmanov because back door deals were made where other shareholders sold out to Kroenke.

Republican Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro vowed to change what he called Albany's climate of corruption and behind - closed - doors deals as he formally kicked off his campaign for New York governor.

Following the back - door deal made with Philips after the 1991 CES, Nintendo announced the Phillips SNES - CD at the 1992 E3 show.

Yet, they had the time to make a closed - door deal in Albany to get it named after former Governor Mario Cuomo.

That's because historically, access to investing in top small businesses and startups has been largely limited to well networked angel investors, and venture capital funds, all doing so via exclusive closed door deals.

ALBANY — Republican Marc Molinaro vowed Monday to change what he called Albany's climate of corruption and behind - closed - doors deals as he formally kicked off his campaign for New York governor.

The trial was an ugly look at the behind - the - door deal making in the state capital's operations, and has been become a painful thorn in Cuomo's side, particularly in an election year, and his fading hopes for a presidential bid in 2020.

«Mark - Viverito is making back door deals with police commissioner, the devil himself.

The NCAA can't really expect any other outcome with how they have set up their rules and policies, it naturally creates back door deals and where money is given under the table.

Comptroller hopeful Eliot Spitzer launched his first attack ad on rival Scott Stringer today, accusing the Manhattan borough president of making closed - door deals to get Mayor Bloomberg a third term...

NEW YORK CITY — One of the sponsors of legislation that would require police to obtain consent to conduct searches without a warrant or probable cause said he plans to push forward with the bills after Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito negotiated what critics call a «back - door deal» to allow the NYPD to instead implement some of the changes themselves.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito took flak from an unexpected side Wednesday — her left — as liberal critics slammed her for making a «back - door deal» that effectively shelves police - reform proposals known as the Right to Know Act.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito took flak from an unexpected side Wednesday — her left — as liberal critics slammed her for making a «back - door deal» that effectively shelves police - reform...

Ms. Mark - Viverito is making back - door deals with the police commissioner — the devil himself,» Malcom said.

Republican Marc Molinaro vowed Monday to change what he called Albany's climate of corruption and behind - closed - doors deals as he formally kicked off his campaign for New York governor.

The members of the public were spurred on by an op - ed piece published on an internet news source that implied town officials had already made a back - door deal with another entity to run the shelter, and by a letter sent to other animal service organizations soliciting proposals by a woman who has long been an opponent of the League's presence at the shelter, ostensibly at the urging of a member of the Town Board.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Republican Marc Molinaro vowed Monday to change what he called Albany's climate of corruption and behind - closed - doors deals as he formally kicked off his campaign for New York governor.

What a closed door deal?

«It's a choice between collaboration or combativeness, constituents or cronyism, community or concentration of power and transparency or closed door deals,» he said.

Luminaries from around the world converge for a week of speechifying and behind - closed - doors deal - making, a situation that makes for heightened security among every faction of the policing agencies.

I think that the real issue here is whether there have been some corruption cases where some officials and construction builders had some back - door deals that compromised the safety standards for those collapsed school buildings and residential apartment buildings.

But I had the righteous sense that the adults were making all kinds of back door deals, and were making it far more complicated to justify inaction.

One of the most serious charges to emerge from «climategate» was that CRU scientists did back - door deals to include unpublished research in the last IPCC report, published in 2007.

China's strategy was simple: block the open negotiations for two weeks, and then ensure that the closed - door deal made it look as if the west had failed the world's poor once again.

Global Witness has uncovered new evidence of the back - door deals, bribes and lawbreaking used to impose these projects and silence opposition.

This agreement was not attended by Bitcoin Core developers — in part out of principle because closed door deals aren't in the spirit of Bitcoin, in part because most of them weren't invited.

Listen in on the secret conversations, back - door deals, and blackmail that put Macklowe and his cronies on top — and set them up for an enormous fall.