Not exact matches
And
in the political sphere, finance has become the great defender of deregulating monopolies and «freeing» land rent and asset - price gains from taxation, translating its economic power and
campaign contributions into the political power to capture
control of public financial regulation.
The Skelos complaint shows how the multiple Limited Liability Companies, or LLCs,
controlled by Glenwood can be used to coordinate and bundle hundreds of thousands of dollars of
campaign contributions in order to buy favorable policy outcomes and tax breaks.
The governor's allies, though, note that the
campaign contributions aren't mentioned
in any of the charges, and nothing has emerged to contradict Cuomo — a self - described
control freak — that he was unaware of what was going on.
It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments
in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state
campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's
control of city schools for another year.
Mr. Schneiderman has outlined an ambitious package of proposals that would end outside income for lawmakers, end per diem compensations given to politicians to pay for accommodations
in the capital, drastically lower
campaign contribution limits for individuals and lobbyists,
control the amount of cash limited liability corporations can donate to candidates and abolish the virtually unregulated party «housekeeping» accounts.
Vance has impaneled a grand jury to weigh whether the mayor and / or his top political apparatchiks conspired
in 2014 to circumvent state
campaign contribution s during de Blasio's failed bid to flip
control of the GOP - run State Senate.
Hevesi admitted to using his
control over the state's pension fund, now at $ 130 billion, to steer $ 250 million
in investments to a private equity fund that paid him handsomely: $ 75,000
in trips to Israel and Italy for him, his adult children, and people from his staff; $ 500,000
in campaign contributions, and $ 380,000
in make - believe consulting fees to a lobbyist allied with Hank Morris, Hevesi's political guru.
Throughout his early career as a real estate developer
in New York City, Republican 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump routinely gave large
campaign contributions to politicians who held sway over his projects and he worked with mob -
controlled companies and unions to build them.
The Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee has been beating the drum lately in an attempt to pressure lawmakers to return contributions from DeLay and the various campaign committees he c
Campaign Committee has been beating the drum lately
in an attempt to pressure lawmakers to return
contributions from DeLay and the various
campaign committees he c
campaign committees he
controls.
The three banking companies secured this lucrative line of business during the same period they delivered more than $ 132,000
in campaign contributions to Gov. Andrew Cuomo through political action committees under their corporate
control.
A Newsday review of
campaign contributions show's Litwin - related entities donated $ 200,000 to political action committees
controlled by Silver, matching another reference Bharara made
in the complaint.
It's tiring to hear the governor say that «you can only live within the system that exists» while he rakes
in campaign cash that comes overwhelmingly
in donations of $ 10,000 or more and takes advantage of a loophole that treats limited liability corporations as individuals when they make
campaign contributions, even if they're
controlled by one individual.
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.
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.