Sentences with phrase «federal dollars ran»

So it's expected that state spending levels on education should come back up once the recession ended and federal dollars ran out.

Not exact matches

The Russian - Canadian real estate developer was caught up in the federal investigation into Trump's ties to Russia after it was discovered that Shnaider received hundreds of millions of dollars by a Russian state - run bank which may have helped pay for building the Trump Tower in Toronto.

Incoming Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, chosen by U.S. President Donald Trump to keep the recovery humming, appears set to let an expected trillion - dollar tax cut run its course through the economy as weak wage growth and inflation buttress his view that the economy remains underpowered.

JPMorgan Chase, seeking to avert a wave of litigation from the government, is negotiating a multibillion - dollar settlement with state and federal agencies over the bank's sale of troubled mortgage securities to investors in the run - up to the financial crisis.

His Buffalo Billion (as in dollars invested) project — although the subject of federal and state bid - rigging probes — is highlighted by a 1.2 - million - square - foot «gigafactory» that will be run by Elon Musk's SolarCity and fabricate up to 10,000 solar panels per day.

But while the benefits of a large and diverse investor base have been demonstrated, the costs — both in terms of dollars and time — of managing these investors and complying with federal reporting obligations run the risk of undermining these benefits.

Including interest, this bill will add $ 1.7 trillion to the federal debt over 10 years, and the Treasury will run a trillion - dollar deficit every year going forward.

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to revoke the bail of former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who was convicted in May after a prolonged and colorful trial of stealing close to half a million dollars from Soundview, the federally funded Bronx health clinic he founded and ran for years with the assistance of allies and members of his family.

Private coverage, by contrast, can run hundreds of dollars a month, even with federal tax credits factored in, and often has steep deductibles.

The charges against the former aides, Joseph Percoco and Todd R. Howe, and the state official, Alain Kaloyeros, were the culmination of a long - running federal investigation into the Cuomo administration's efforts to lure jobs and businesses to upstate New York's limping economy by furnishing billions of dollars in state funds to developers from Buffalo to Albany.

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

Former Senator and briefly Senate Majority Leader, Pedro Espada was convicted by a Federal jury of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the health care clinic network he had created and ran in the Bronx, despite having an annual salary of $ 235,000 with generous perks on top of his legislative pay.

Christie, who's running for re-election this year, makes a cameo in the 30 - second spot, prompting some critics to say the potential 2016 presidential contender is using federal taxpayer dollars to boost his political image.

But state and federal campaign finance records show Maragos, who made millions of dollars at his private technology firm, repaid himself more than 90 percent — $ 2.89 million — after his two successful campaigns for county comptroller and a failed U.S. Senate run in 2012.

The school is eligible to receive millions of dollars in federal money to improve its performance, but Dr. Tisch said its problems ran so deep — students read far below grade level, and there was little instruction taking place — that money alone might not be enough to solve them.

He pointed out that it made no economic sense for the Federal Government to be calculating the country's revenue on the basis of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) official rate of N199 to a dollar while States and Local Councils that are sharing the revenue with the Federal Government run their businesses at the open market rate of over N400 to one dollar.

WHITE PLAINS — Condemning him for having «corrupted the Democratic process,» a federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Malcolm A. Smith, former majority leader of the New York State Senate, to seven years in prison for consenting to the payment of tens of thousands of dollars to Republican Party leaders to permit him, as a registered Queens Democrat, to run for mayor in 2013 on their party's line.

In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

Amtrak, a for - profit public corporation run and funded in part by the federal government, owns Penn Station and Albany and Trenton spend tens of millions of dollars each year to rent concourses for their state and local train systems.

The governor's big - headline, big - dollar programs are run by SUNY Polytechnic Institute and are the subject of a federal investigation.

In 2010, Rivera, running as a progressive and a reformer, defeated incumbent Democrat Pedro Espada, Jr., who is now serving a federal prison sentence for the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care non-profit he controlled.

If it works, the project, run out of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., could save federal and commercial satellite owners billions of dollars.

Unlike Greece, the U.S. borrows in its own national currency: whereas the Greek government can run out of euros, the U.S. government can not really run out of dollars as long as the Federal Reserve provides them.

Federal dollars have also helped to get the Squamish project up and running over the past year.

So when the Empire State cut support to districts by $ 1.2 billion simultaneously as federal stimulus dollars were running out, it hurt.

District superintendents predict worse to come in 2011, when federal stimulus dollars for education run out.

And thanks to Presidents George W. Bush and Barak Obama, federal law provides that failing schools can be handed over to charter school management companies... and with it hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds going to private charter school corporations to run public schools.

Federal Race to the Top dollars that support regional leadership academies that train school administrators are running out, so lawmakers propose spending $ 4 million in 2015 to keep RLAs running as new funding options are considered.

Or, consider the troubles that the states are in, since they have to run balanced budgets, unlike the Federal government, which can borrow in dollars, and inflate the currency as needed.

He also spoke as the federal government appears poised to run budgetary deficits in order to invest billions of dollars in areas such as infrastructure as a way to boost Canada's weak growth.

The failure set off a worldwide run on US gold deposits (the dollar), and forced the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates into the slump.

The dollar has lost 95 % of its value since the federal reserve's creation, and since the printing presses have been running full blast since the 1970's, the US has gone from the largest creditor to the world's largest debtor.

Federal and state governments are already paying tens of thousands of dollars per vehicle to companies that convert trucks to run on natural gas.

In rejecting his state's federal dollars, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland said, «Quite frankly, I don't believe abstinence - only education programs work in the long run.»

Now, they're making an unprecedented ask for that federal money back — just so that they can pour more dollars into their dangerous, failing state - run program.