Sentences with phrase «funnel big contributions»

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They're also big - time donors to politicians in both the United States and Israel with contributions approaching $ 1.8 million, although none of the money has funneled into Western New York.

The head investigator for the state Board of Elections alleges that the funneling of big money contributions through party committees to Senate candidates was a «willful and flagrant» move made by the mayor to evade contribution limits.

The state investigation, led by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, focuses on whether the de Blasio Administration illegally funneled big bucks campaign contributions to upstate campaign committees in an unsuccessful bid to regain Democratic control of the state senate in 2014, WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported.

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 accounts.