Sentences with phrase «funneling campaign money»

The charges against Ortt involve allegations of funneling campaign money to his wife in order to pad his own salary.

These same lobbyist are funneling campaign money into the Senate leadership coalition that Senator Avella has joined.»

The Post-Standard reported Friday that Miner's political action committee funneled campaign money through the state Democratic Party to four Syracuse - area candidates.

Not exact matches

A court in Washington has ruled that the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) violated the state's finance disclosure law when it funneled millions of dollars in dark money from its major corporate members to the campaign that defeated a 2013 ballot initiative to label food containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

Since Cohen «funneled» the cash to Daniels through his law firm, and Trump repaid Cohen from his personal funds, the money «was not campaign money,» Giuliani explained to Hannity.

Acting District Attorney Michael Flaherty, D, opened the investigation after an article in the Daily News detailed allegations that organizations, connected to New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio, were skirting campaign finance limits by funneling money through county committees for State Senate races in 2014.

Yes, it is different when the NRA accepts money from Russians and funnels it to the Rump campaign, Ryan and McConnell.

At issue is whether the Mayor intentionally subverted state campaign finance laws by funneling money to County Democratic organizations which then wheeled that money to specific Senate candidates in the Hudson Valley.

Squadron has a bill that would close the loophole, which allows individuals to contribute virtually unlimited amounts of money to a campaign by funneling it through a limited liability company.

A Justice Department probe of the campaign alleges that Durand, a former business associate of Grimm, illegally reimbursed donors in order to evade legal contribution limits and funnel more money to Grimm's 2010 Congressional campaign.

Wills will also have to pay nearly $ 33,000 in restitution of campaign funds and state grant money he funneled for his own shopping sprees, including a $ 750 Louis Vuitton bag at Macy's.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Maziarz, who held the Senate seat before Ortt for more than two decades, concocted a scheme to secretly funnel money from his campaign funds to a former staffer.

Funneling money through party committees is a common and legal way to sidestep campaign finance rules that limit the amount of donations from PACs, individuals and corporations, said Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director of the League of Women Voters.

One of the facts that is going to come out soon is how much money NYC real estate interests funnel to upstate Senators to fund their campaigns.

You could anticipate he'd take shots at the FBI as they have the NRA under investigation for funneling large amounts of Russian money to the Trump campaign.

The Bronx Democrat is under investigation for allegedly funneling tax dollars to a nonprofit - then using the money to finance his campaign.

His team of election strategists, led by Stephen Gilbert (see No 26), have funneled money into the 150 or so target seats and now reside in Conservative Campaign Headquarters itself.

Maybe this is why no one wants to have them on their list of supporters: Assemblyman Nelson Castro: soon to be charged for perjury State Senator Pedro Espada: under allegations he funneled state money to his own personal business; under investigation for not filing campaign finance forms; led the Albany stalemate in June which has made our State Legislature even more disfunctional Assemblymember Carmen Arroyo: her grandson is under investigation (oops, sorry - he was arrested) for using non-profit money for personal and lavish spending in Puerto Rico (don't tell she did not know?)

That the Republican Senate Campaign Committee and its leadership are willing to funnel so much money into Serino's campaign coffers shows how serious the GOP is about winning back a seat that historically had been a Republican strCampaign Committee and its leadership are willing to funnel so much money into Serino's campaign coffers shows how serious the GOP is about winning back a seat that historically had been a Republican strcampaign coffers shows how serious the GOP is about winning back a seat that historically had been a Republican stronghold.

The two trials laid bare many of the secrets the commission might have uncovered — with testimony about the vast, almost unilateral power exercised by legislative leaders, the way powerful real estate interests dole out campaign contributions, legal referrals and jobs to line politicians» pockets and maintain access, and how money is hidden by evading disclosure laws and funneling it through relatives, law firms and title fees.

It is alleged that the de Blasio Administration funneled money through Democratic county committees to evade campaign contribution limits.

Multiple federal and state probes are examining whether donors to the mayor's nonprofit received anything in return for their donation and if de Blasio and his team violated election and campaign finance laws by funneling money to upstate senate candidates.

Liu fundraiser Xiangwu Pan was also found guilty of conspiring to commit wire fraud for helping to funnel money through bogus donors to Liu's campaign.

The end result, according to Reznick, is that money is funneled away from state Senate campaigns.

The attorney general's investigators are attempting to determine if money appearing in campaign finance reports as payments to election contractors was then illegally or secretly funneled to subcontractors.

De Blasio's top money man, Ross Offinger, funneled $ 50,000 of «publicly untraceable» campaign cash to help Long Island Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky win a crucial race for the state Senate.

Maziarz is accused of funneling money from his campaign account to a public relations firm, which in turn paid a former staffer who left his office amid sexual harassment allegations.

Jr, whose mom, an employee of Espada's Soundview health clinic, pleaded guilty in 2004 to funneling state money designated for AIDS treatment into Espada's political campaign.

Wills» then took a large chunk of that money by funneling it through his campaign which paid a «shell company named «Micro Targeting» $ 11,500 purportedly for the translation and distribution of campaign literature,» prosecutors said.

These span his ties to the anti-horse carriage group New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Safe Streets, his 2014 efforts to funnel money to unsuccessful upstate candidates for the State Senate and a sprawling bribery scandal involving two Campaign for One New York donors who regaled top NYPD officials with gifts, trips and even prostitutes.

He alleged that Mangano and Walker had illegally used the Hicksville committee and the skybox to funnel money secretly to Mangano's campaign.

Howe's testimony on Tuesday, his second day as the government's star witness, drew back the curtain on the Cuomo campaign's fundraising practices and how some donors were instructed to skirt donor laws by funneling money through limited liability companies.

Is it possible for foreign nationals to contribute to electoral campaigns, with money funneled through corporations, with the Citizens United ruling?

It allegedly funneled money from wealthy donors into de Blasio's campaign coffers.

«The DUP was used by the CRC to funnel money to the leave campaign that to this day keeps the source of that money secret,» Bradshaw said.

Probers are seeking to investigate charges that team de Blasio sought to evade individual campaign limits of $ 10,300 by having donors make big donations to local county committees, which in turn earmarked and funneled the money to specific candidates.

«The Obama campaign had clearly launched a concerted plan to funnel money to superdelegates to get their endorsement.»

Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza was indicted Thursday on federal charges of violating campaign finance laws by using straw donors to funnel money to a U.S. Senate candidate.

He said Sharkey and Aresimowicz are only looking to «distract» from the state Democratic Party's «shenanigans» in its circumvention of state clean - election laws to funnel state contractors» money into Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's 2014 re-election campaign.

Two of Liu's campaign workers were also convicted of illegally funneling money to the campaign through straw donors — people whose contributions are reimbursed by others.

A watchdog group has accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and several of its candidates of using illegal advertising practices this election cycle, asserting that the committee funneled extra money to its campaigns as an ad strategy.

The letter came in response to the leak on Friday of a confidential report by the board that accused a team formed by Mr. de Blasio of illegally funneling money to various candidates through county Democratic Party committees and a statewide party committee, in order to evade limits on campaign contributions.

Mayor de Blasio's top money man funneled $ 50,000 of «publicly untraceable» campaign cash to help a Long Island Democrat win a crucial race for the state Senate, according to a...

Among the gold medals awarded to Bill de Blasio on Thursday was one for limbo - dancing his way past election laws so he and his allies could funnel money into 2014 state legislative campaigns at a rate 10 times the supposed limit.

Meanwhile, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has another panel hearing arguments that the mayor and his closest political assistants deliberately circumvented campaign finance laws in their failed 2014 effort to flip the State Senate to the Democrats, by directing donors (many of whom also had business before the city) to funnel money into upstate party committees instead of into candidates» individual campaign accounts — thus bypassing state contribution caps.

«Steve Rattner was willing to do whatever it took to get his hands on pension fund money including paying kickbacks, orchestrating a movie deal, and funneling campaign contributions,» Cuomo said in a press release.

However, the DUP's revelation that a shady group with no clear history of activity beyond funnelling money to right - wing causes was the source of its vast campaign donation in fact leaves us no clearer about where the Brexit campaign cash actually came from — including any potential links to the Saudi Arabian intelligence agency.

If the designated campaign has spent its # 7m, then funnels surplus cash into other organisations with strict instructions as to how the money should be spent, then the limit is effectively obsolete.

New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says Maziarz, who held the Senate seat before Ortt for over two decades, concocted a scheme to secretly funnel money from his campaign funds to a former staffer.

The commission is investigating whether Vote Leave funnelled money through third - party campaigns when it hit the official limit.