Sentences with phrase «earlier sweetheart deal»

In this case, the New Haven Board of Education is appointed by Mayor Toni Harp — who, thanks to an earlier sweetheart deal — happens to sit on the Achievement First Inc..

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For example, in the early 1990s, Lloyd Williams, a political and business associate of Inez Dickens and her father dating back at least to the 1970s, and head of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and its development arm the Greater Harlem Housing Development Corporation, presided over a disastrous sweetheart real - estate deal with the City that wound up costing the taxpayers almost $ 4 million.