Sentences with phrase «funneling of campaign contributions»

But Sugarman did say in her memo that there's evidence that some of the same illegal funneling of campaign contributions could have occurred in western New York, in Senate races in the Rochester and Buffalo areas.

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... In 1988, Lowey ousted DioGuardi after a report that Joseph Crabtree, the head of DioGuardi's campaign finance committee, had funneled more than $ 50,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign through his numerous auto dealerships.

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.

One of Liu's top fundraisers, Oliver Pan, has also been indicted for allegedly funneling $ 16,000 in illegal contributions to the once - rising star's campaign.

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.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

Hou and Pan are accused of using straw donors to funnel illegal contributions that are far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign chest.

Bloomberg's office had steadfastly insisted the mayor did nothing wrong in connection with the $ 1.1 million worth of personal campaign contributions he made to the state Independence Party that was subsequently funneled to Haggerty, a Queens GOP operative, to (ostensibly) for for a ballot protection operation on Election Day, 2009.

At the heart of the Silver and Skelos scandals were a network of limited liability companies — LLCs for short — that admitted to funneling $ 10 million in campaign contributions, with a cool $ 1 million to the governor himself.

In February, the scheduled trial of a former New York State Senator begins related to charges from an alleged scheme to secretly funnel campaign contributions into pockets of a staffer;

The loophole has allowed special interest groups to funnel tens of millions of dollars into political campaigns, sometimes in secret, and circumvent contribution limits that individuals would otherwise have to follow, according to the Brennan Center, which has sued New York's Board of Elections to try to force it to close the loophole.

Pan is accused of trying to use straw donors to funnel the $ 16,000 contribution to the 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.

The U.S. Attorney and Manhattan DA are investigating whether the office of New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio knowingly violated campaign contribution laws by funneling donations for some upstate Senate races through county committees, which can accept donations 10 times higher than the limits on an individual Senate candidate.

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.

Sugarman's internal memo accuses de Blasio and his political aides of breaking campaign finance laws by funneling contributions over the legal limit into county committees in an unsuccessful effort to return the state Senate to Democratic control in 2014.

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.

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 aCampaign 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 acampaign accounts.

More specifically, Schneiderman is calling for higher contribution limits, the closing of a limited liability corporation loophole which he says «allows wealthy interests to funnel limitless amounts to campaigns,» as well as for the elimination of the housekeeping committees used by the state's political parties.

Like other wealthy campaign donors, Mr. Litwin circumvented contribution limits by funneling many smaller gifts through dozens of limited liability companies he controlled.

The group, which could accept unlimited contributions because of its status, allegedly funneled money from wealthy donors into de Blasio's campaign coffers — avoiding campaign finance restrictions.

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