Sentences with phrase «funding former state lawmaker»
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Lawmakers in Albany took note when former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno was acquitted in May on corruption charges, after prosecutors failed to prove that taking a $ 20,000 - a-month consulting gig from a telecommunications executive who then received state funds actually constituted a bribery scheme.
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ALBANY — A member of the commission responsible for investigating wrongdoing by lawmakers is running a fund - raiser for former Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the newly convicted felon who named him to the state panel.
New York State's campaign finance rules allow lawmakers wide latitude to use campaign funds for covering legal fees, restaurant tabs, season tickets to professional sporting events, or in the infamous case of former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a $ 1,300 pool clean - up.
It stated that if the federal lawmakers at that time carried out an effective oversight function, funds looted under ex-National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison Madueke, among others would have been checked.
A former employee of Assemblyman Steve Fox alleges that the Democratic lawmaker forced employees in his taxpayer - funded state office to perform work at his private law practice.
In 2006 Yankees ownership paid over $ 300,000 to a lobbying firm run by former Bronx Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez — the largest lobbying fee reported that year — as well as other influential lawmakers including former state senator Joseph Bruno, in an apparent effort to secure funding for the stadium.
Even with the Republican failure to repeal former President Barack Obama's health care law, Democratic lawmakers in some states are pressing ahead with efforts to protect birth control access, Planned Parenthood funding and abortion coverage in case...
But this week, after one of Raleigh's most outspoken school choice backers, former state lawmaker Marcus Brandon, suggested charter leaders file a class - action suit against every county in North Carolina over funding, leaders on both sides seem farther apart than ever.
Legalization of the state takeover program was spearheaded two years ago by former state lawmaker Rob Bryan, who now sits on AAC's board of directors, and lobbying for the initiative was funded at least in part by John Bryan, the Oregon school choice booster (no relation to Rob Bryan) who founded the TeamCFA charter network.