Sentences with phrase «evade contribution»
But it failed to address or even mention the statute that Ms. Sugarman said had been violated — a section of the law that classifies certain efforts to evade contribution limits as a felony.
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The head investigator for the state Board of Elections alleges that the funneling of big money contributions through party committees to Senate candidates was a «willful and flagrant» move made by the mayor to evade contribution limits.
The state needs to close damaging loopholes that allow unlimited donations for party slush funds or that allow the creation of multiple limited liability corporations to evade contribution limits.
«The evidence demonstrates that the de Blasio team coordinated its fundraising activities with and intentionally solicited contributions for these candidates... in order to evade contribution limits and disguise the true names of the contributors, which may violate [two election laws],» she wrote.
She repeatedly mentions that the Ulster and Putnam committees didn't have a history of receiving large contributions from their donors in the fall of 2014 or getting involved in Senate races, which she views as signals that they were used as straw donors to evade contribution limits.
In this case, however, the choice of the mayor as a subject seems to have been made easier by virtue of the fact that his dealings with party committees are the only instance in recent memory in which a fundraising effort openly engaged in each of the types of activity that Sugarman's memo argued were suggestive of an attempt to use parties to «evade contribution limits and to disguise the true names of the contributors.»
In that case, investigators are examining whether donations to the candidates were funneled through county party committees to evade contribution limits, a violation of state law and a possible felony.
To Sugarman, this confluence of factors suggests an intentional attempt to «coordinate the formation of activities... for the purpose of evading the contribution limits,» as prohibited by election law.
Not exact matches
A Justice Department probe of the campaign alleges that Durand, a former business associate of Grimm, illegally reimbursed donors in order to evade legal contribution limits and funnel more money to Grimm's 2010 Congressional campaign.
«The legislation would prevent campaign contributors from evading the legal contribution limits by setting up shell corporations and instead establish a more level playing field to promote greater fairness and consistency in the Election Law.»
[20][21] The move allowed a few donors to give contributions far in excess of the legal limit to evade the cap that would have otherwise applied.
The two trials laid bare many of the secrets the commission might have uncovered — with testimony about the vast, almost unilateral power exercised by legislative leaders, the way powerful real estate interests dole out campaign contributions, legal referrals and jobs to line politicians» pockets and maintain access, and how money is hidden by evading disclosure laws and funneling it through relatives, law firms and title fees.
It is alleged that the de Blasio Administration funneled money through Democratic county committees to evade campaign contribution limits.
The inquiry into 2014 contributions solicited by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign apparatus and intended to assist the Senate Democrats is based on a state ban on contributions to a party committee if they are given or solicited for a particular candidate, with an intent to evade individual contribution limits.
The current election law, he said, had «limits on contributions that are not limits in fact because they can be easily evaded» and «disclosure provisions that do not disclose.»
Under New York law, efforts to «knowingly and willfully» evade the individual contribution limit of $ 10,300 per senatorial candidate are punishable as a felony that carries up to four years in the slammer.
«If that's not a legal provision to evade — if you want to use that word — to evade limits on contributions to individual candidates, I don't know what is,» Mr. Jacobs said.
Court papers filed by Mr. Cuomo's office in January suggested that the criminal investigation included whether Mr. Espada falsified business records at Soundview and related companies or knowingly evaded New York's campaign contribution limits in his 2008 Senate campaign.
The letter came in response to the leak on Friday of a confidential report by the board that accused a team formed by Mr. de Blasio of illegally funneling money to various candidates through county Democratic Party committees and a statewide party committee, in order to evade limits on campaign contributions.
He acted on behalf of donors, federal prosecutors said; he attempted to evade «the spirit» of state campaign contribution limits, according to the state prosecutors.
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.
He argued the LLC may have been used to «willfully evade campaign contribution limits» by using a «false name,» which would violate election law.
Dong is accused of trying to evade limits on campaign contributions in several ways, for example, by using the name of his daughter, then a minor, as a campaign contributor.
have affordable housing ordinances, there's a long tradition of Jersey towns evading their responsibility through a loophole in state statute that allows municipalities to enter into Regional Contribution Agreements that let them pay off another town to take its share of affordable units.