Sentences with phrase «exchange for those campaign contributions»
Take a look at what elected officials do in exchange for those campaign contributions,» he said.
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Federal prosecutors say this was part of de Blasio's and his aides» effort to help Singh in exchange for campaign contributions.
An executive order signed last week will require chaplains to be active clergy members and also live in Westchester County comes as a response to a federal probe into whether or not former County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, offered up a chaplain position in exchange for campaign contributions.
He is alleged to have done so in exchange for campaign contributions and posh getaways.
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.
But a Democratic district attorney candidate in Brooklyn, Marc Fliedner, also said Vance should go, saying the recent revelations «really go to a failure for women to be properly protected, in exchange for campaign contributions.»
The group also claims, among other things, that Gov. Cuomo and the Senate ignored the constitutionally mandated three - day waiting period before a bill can be acted upon and that lawmakers approved the legislation in exchange for campaign contributions from Bloomberg and other high profile «Wall Street financiers.»
Menendez is accused of helping a Florida ophthalmologist with government business in exchange for campaign contributions and posh getaways.
In Pennsylvania, a state that's been heavily fracked, former governor Tom Corbett bent over backwards to give ridiculous tax breaks to Big Oil and Gas in exchange for campaign contributions.
Not exact matches
Trump is already facing a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which argues that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump may have been an illegal campaign contribution.
The probe is examining whether donors to de Blasio's mayoral run and his nonprofit, Campaign for One New York, received any favors in exchange for their contributions.
There is a federal investigation into whether donors to the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit the mayor started to advance his political agenda, received favors in exchange for their contributions.
«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.»
In the late 90's, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn conducted an investigation into whether the 1994 Pataki gubernatorial campaign traded state paroles in exchange for contributions.
Singh of Syosset pleaded guilty in October 2016 to bribing Mangano and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto and attempting to bribe de Blasio, to whom Singh said he directed campaign contributions in exchange for efforts to save the struggling Water's Edge.
Despite ethics issues — stemming from a ski trip to New York, the exchange of legislative assistance for campaign contributions, and the hiring of his wife as a campaign fund - raiser — Sweeney enjoys a double - digit lead.
He pleaded guilty in October to accepting campaign contributions and free travel in exchange for investing state pension money with a certain firm.
The charge: accepting $ 22,000 in cash bribes and campaign contributions in exchange for a legislative bill that would give four Bronx businessmen preferential treatment in building senior daycare centers.
-- Cuomo's campaign refunded a $ 25,000 contribution from Martin Edelman, a partner at Fisher Brothers, the company that received a tax break for their residential high - rise development next to New York's stock exchange.
A month earlier, Sen. Robert Menendez, D - N.J., was indicted for allegedly exchanging favors for gifts and campaign contributions.
State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were arrested Monday by federal authorities, who alleged the state's top Republican extorted bribes and campaign contributions from companies in exchange for steering key real estate legislation and rigging a lucrative Nassau County environmental contract to his son's benefit.
Singh has testified he bribed de Blasio with campaign contributions in exchange for help with Water's Edge.
Singh secretly pleaded guilty in 2016 to bribing de Blasio with campaign contributions in exchange for official favors involving his since - shuttered Water's Edge restaurant in Queens.
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.
As part of his deal to testify against Mangano, Singh pleaded guilty to bribing de Blasio with campaign contributions in exchange for official favors involving a restaurant, Water's Edge, that he formerly operated in Queens.
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.
Menendez is accused of carrying out «official favors» for his friend, Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, in exchange for private jet flights, vacations, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.
On Monday, the largest public workers union, the CSEA, suspended all political endorsements and campaign contributions over the pension package, saying lawmakers traded the retirement security of future workers in exchange for new district lines, which were also passed in the all night session.
The name of a «high elected official» who is alleged to have received cash payments or campaign contributions in exchange for giving a Stony Brook title company public work can be revealed in an upcoming fraud trial, according to a court ruling issued Thursday.
The negative one accused Mr. Paladino, a developer, of trading campaign contributions in exchange for prized real estate contracts with the state.
In exchange for their tax - exempt status, federal law bars 501 (c)(3) organizations from engaging in political activity, and some are calling on Schneiderman to investigate why Families for Excellent Schools made a multimillion - dollar contribution, now that the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance has acted.
Programs, mandates, and subsidies beget vocal beneficiaries, industries, lobbyists, and crony corporatist arrangements between them and elected representatives — who receive dinners, trips, and campaign contributions in exchange for votes that perpetuate programs, mandates, subsidies, and electoral success.