Sentences with phrase «favors for campaign contributions»

New York - A lawyer for state Sen. Carl Kruger said Saturday that prosecutors have cleared the lawmaker of allegations that he traded bureaucratic favors for campaign contributions.

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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.

«Gifts, favors, and campaign contributions are not a legitimate basis for government contracts or special treatment,» said Cuomo.

Catsimatidis also gave to de Blasio's now - defunct political nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, an organization U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is now probing to determine if the mayor traded city favors for contributions.

A month earlier, Sen. Robert Menendez, D - N.J., was indicted for allegedly exchanging favors for gifts and campaign contributions.

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.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who is probing de Blasio's campaign fundraising activities, is trying to determine if there were any quid - pro-quos, with donors receiving favors in return for their 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.

HARLEM — Voters believe that Mayor Bill de Blasio «does favors for developers who make political contributions to campaigns in which he is involved,» but a majority feel the activities are just unethical and not illegal, a new poll shows.

Other surveys, such as this one by the Committee on Economic Development demonstrate support for reform is also strong in the business community; 72 percent are in favor of creating a public financing system that would match low - dollar contributions and give average citizens more incentives to contribute to campaigns.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign aCampaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign acampaign accounts.

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.

Hevesi also acknowledged roughly $ 900,000 in other favors the businessman did for him or others in his orbit, including a total of $ 500,000 in campaign contributions to Hevesi and other candidates he or his staff suggested.

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

All these specious claims for wind energy are simply part of a long line of snake oil sales spiels — intended to fool the public, and to enable politicians to justify favoring special interests by enriching various rent - seekers (which will then return the favor via campaign contributions and other reelection support).