Sentences with phrase «funded slush fund»

A secretive, multi-million dollar taxpayer - funded slush fund used for years to pay off victims of sexual misconduct was tapped to settle a lawsuit against Queens Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks.

At both the state and federal level, media reports have indicated it is common practice for governments to use taxpayer funded slush funds and confidentiality agreements to hide workplace harassment and sexual harassment from the public eye.

Not exact matches

«This program was supposed to make sure credit flowed to Main Street,» Republican Sen. Charles Grassley recently noted, «but instead it has been used as a slush fund to pick winners and losers in New York and Detroit.

The days of free - flowing slush funds, though, are over.

The Conservatives characterized Martin's contingencies as little more than slush funds, a smear that stuck because of the white lies at the heart of the budget.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has attacked the government over its legislation to streamline the accounting process, arguing it lacks legal enforceability on how Ottawa spends «this $ 7 billion no - strings - attached Liberal slush fund.»

«Governments can only spend what Parliament has approved and only on the specific purposes approved, except this slush fund will allow the Liberals to move the money wherever they want,» Poilievre said recently during question period.

It's one thing to work enough in college to cover your slush fund.

Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

Or as the WFLC's spokeperson Kenan Block put it, «We believe Canada was either a willing or an unwitting partner in creating what's become a pro-timber industry slush fund in the United States.»

«I personally would not call it a political slush fund; I'd call it a timber industry slush fund.»

Concerns the money would be used for a slush fund may well have been fulfilled.

If you multiply $ 35,000 times 12 months you arrive at a $ 420,000 slush fund that Giuliani suggests was used to handle «things of a personal nature that Michael took care of....»

According to Giuliani, the «fund of money» was Trump's regular retainer to Cohen, which seems to have been what amounts to a slush fund for Cohen to deal with Trump's various problems.

Horgan said that looks like code for a slush fund.

In addition, for a government that loves corporate welfare even more than past governments, Ottawa announced female - specific funding for entrepreneurs through its existing alphabet potpourri of regional slush fund agencies.

Transfer payments, regional subsidies and even the announcements for universities, regional slush funds or rural broadband financing announced over the last few months, they all share the intended two - prong effect: vote - buying, and spreading the illusion that the federal government can fix a local problem, be it in classrooms or in lousy internet connections.

This provides Treasury Board with a «slush fund» for additional spending measures.

Now it turns out that there was something of a slush fund, in the form of Cohen's retainer.

Then Trump said Cohen was acting as his attorney but conspicuously didn't address whether he had reimbursed Cohen via a slush fund.

a multimillion dollar slush fund?

Governor Perry tries to pick winners and losers by creating slush funds that give taxpayer money to connected corporations and his campaign contributors.

Whether or not they paid for this junket, if they are thinking of footing the bill for others in the future, even despots with unlimited slush funds might ask whether the NCC today has any influence worth buying.

For years, they were a big market team being managed like a medium market team, with an owner who was more interested in using the team like a personal slush fund.

PSU has a slush fund for recruiting, etc..

German news magazine Der Spiegel have today alleged that the committee in charge of organising the German bid for the 2006 World Cup, a bid that was eventually successful, set up a multi-million dollar slush fund with the express purpose of purchasing votes.

Union leaders make bucketloads of money, kickbacks from everybody and slush funds for anything that crosses their mind.

This is clearly Kroenke, with no warning to Wenger et al, using the club as his own personal slush fund to back this new billion dollar loan he's trying to take out

Yet in almost every popular Internet rumor about a recruit's family being paid off, there's some mention of a bank account or a slush fund that boosters pay into and athletes take out of.

«A gentleman never competes for money, directly or indirectly» he intoned in» Walter Camp's Book of College Sports,» all the while controlling a reputed $ 100,000 (about $ 2.5 million in today's dollars) slush fund for athletic «tutoring.»

Past and present German football officials may be taking advantage of the 2006 slush fund speculation to settle old scores.

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

Tacopina says he does not know what the charges are at this time, but believes they are in connection to the slush fund scandal.

-LRB-... The DN calls on de Blasio to use his mayoral powers to abolish the Council practice of dividing up some $ 400 million annually in so - called member items...) ************* Don't see de Blasio using up political chips to try to end the member - item slush fund.

is he proposing to eliminate the use of campaign money as slush funds?

More from E.J.: «New York's tentative state budget deal would pour another $ 385 million into the biggest, murkiest pork - barrel slush fund Albany has ever seen.»

Just like others who had benefited from the slush funds doled out by former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison - Madueke, Chime is being investigated in connection with the N450million believed to have been allocated to the state which he received from the ex-Minister.

«The attempt to link the chairman's name to the $ 115 million Slush Fund with Fidelity Bank is not only mischievous but disingenuous handiwork of adversaries who will stop at nothing to concoct stories no matter how ridiculous about our chairman.

Read a little bit into the federal investigation into how she ran slush funds in the city council.

While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»

He allegedly took cash from a state slush fund and gave it to a doctor, who referred asbestos cases to a law firm that illegally split its share of medical settlements with Silver.

The State and Municipal Facilities Aid slush fund apparently isn't subject to the added disclosure and accountability guidelines applied to standard pork barrel «member items» at the recommendation of then - Attorney General Cuomo in 2008.

New York's tentative state budget deal would pour another $ 385 million into the biggest, murkiest pork - barrel slush fund Albany has ever seen.

In March, legislators bristled when Cuomo tried to use $ 100 million of their «capital projects» slush fund for the councils, but the governor's aides eventually found $ 100 million by cancelling plans to build a state data center and re-obligated another $ 30 million in an older gubernatorial «capital projects» pork fund.

When the US Attorney and FBI investigated the slush fund scandal, Quinn used taxpayer dollars to pay for her lawyers.

Unless these measures are part of a more comprehensive plan to eliminate party slush funds and slash six figure contributions, we'll be right back to where we started.

· Eliminate «Housekeeping Committees»: Housekeeping committees now operate as barely regulated slush funds for political parties and legislative campaign committees and must be eliminated.

«This case stands for a very simple but important principle, which is that you can not use your campaign account as a slush fund to avoid public scrutiny,» said Schneiderman, D - New York.

Under Quinn, the City Council hid millions in secret slush funds for organizations that didn't actually exist.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget makes important changes to several secretive slush funds first brought to light by the Empire Center.