Sentences with phrase «in campaign contributions from»

According to the ICIT report, members of the Senate Commerce Committee received $ 369,000 in campaign contributions from Facebook employees and from a Facebook political action committee, while members of the Senate Judiciary Committee received $ 235,000 from the same source.

Inc., the United Supreme Court required a West Virginia Supreme Court Justice's recusal where that Justice had received $ 3 million in campaign contributions from Massey Coal's CEO and then ruled favorably for Massey Coal in overturning a $ 50 million damage award against the company.

Trouble was, Benjamin had received $ 3 million in campaign contributions from Massey, raising questions of judicial bias.

SB 6255 Requires mandatory recusal for judges who receive $ 50 or more in campaign contributions from lawyers or parties in past 3 years.

Hey, she owes it to them — she's accepted a whopping million dollars of cash in campaign contributions from them.

Berger received $ 46,700 in campaign contributions from fracking interests between 2009 and 2011.

In 2010, Koch Industries was the largest political spender of the entire energy sector, dumping $ 2,645,589 in campaign contributions from their political action committee.

44 senators got millions of dollars in campaign contributions from the oil industry.

Nick is not telling the truth, his campaign had over $ 1 million in campaign contributions from the CCSA (California Charter School Association), he is expected to «perform.»

An updated review of the latest federal and state campaign finance reports reveal that Governor Malloy has collected in excess of $ 70,000 in campaign contributions from individuals associated with the corporate education reform industry.

By mid-October, Brown had collected $ 715,000 in campaign contributions from California tribes, according to the Press Democrat.

«You do what you need to do sometimes to get the ball rolling,» said Walz, who accepted at least $ 2,600 in campaign contributions from K12, its executives or its lobbyists since 2008, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

You read that right... Malloy's political campaign has benefited from more than $ 250,000 in campaign contributions from the corporate education reform industry.

Between them, Brown and Collins have received $ 18,900 in campaign contributions from Delaware North and members of the Jacobs family.

Both received thousands in campaign contributions from the group.

She received $ 3,500 in campaign contributions from Mr. Catsimatidis in the late 1990's and early 2000's.

In the aftermath, Schneiderman was forced to return nearly $ 76,000 in campaign contributions from Democratic Senate leaders John Sampson and Malcolm Smith and others implicated in the report.

Former Gov. David A. Paterson received $ 300,000 in campaign contributions from Litwin and company before deciding not to run for re-election.

He continued: «No one should be lectured by a hypocritical candidate like Mike Derrick who just accepted almost $ 3,000 in campaign contributions from wealthy Democratic mega-donor George Soros, and is angry that his 18 month effort dialing for national dollars has miserably failed.»

As DNAinfo.com New York first reported, Schneiderman received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Esther and Joseph Markowitz, who live in upstate Monsey.

Both campaigns hired national fundraising firms that help bring in campaign contributions from outside of Central New York.

The latter has come under fire for taking $ 10,000 in campaign contributions from Mylan earlier this year.

And the governor donated the more than $ 110,000 he received in campaign contributions from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein to Women's Justice NOW, NOW - NYC's charitable partner organization that supports public education and outreach efforts and offers legal advocacy and referrals for women.

Government filings also suggest there will be testimony on matters ranging from lobbying on big - ticket items like rent regulation and real estate tax abatements, to Silver's killing of a Manhattan drug treatment clinic and $ 10 million in campaign contributions from New Hyde Park - based Glenwood Management, one of the real estate developers he allegedly shook down.

Cuomo has since 2012 taken in more than $ 131,000 in campaign contributions from three major financial firms that were then tapped by his administration to manage state bond work without competitive bids and in apparent violation of federal rules.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. accepted nearly $ 19,000 in campaign contributions from a nightlife mogul whose business partner was once investigated over sex assault allegations, and then returned the money six months later.

The governor, who is closely aligned with the union and has received $ 165,000 in campaign contributions from the labor group, once dispatched a top aide to deliver a message, they said.

Buffalo Sen. Marc Panepinto has raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from lawyers who were arguing cases before his wife.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a company involved in a controversial program that provides U.S. visas to big dollar foreign investors.

About 10 second in, writing on the screen claims that Quinn received $ 59,400 in campaign contributions from Rudin Management.

Lalor: Pay - to - Play the Cuomo Way LEGISLATIVE PRESS RELEASE Fishkill, NY: Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor (R, C, I — Fishkill) on Monday criticized Gov. Cuomo's acceptance of over $ 50,000 in campaign contributions from NBC Universal and its parent company Comcast, while handing out $ 10 million in new tax breaks to NBC shows so far.

Also on Tuesday, aides to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said he is returning $ 23,000 in campaign contributions from Ciminelli and Aiello.

Liberal activist groups last week called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return thousands of dollars he has received in campaign contributions from Daniel Loeb, a billionaire who has come under criticism for racially charged remarks directed at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Over two million dollars in campaign contributions from the gambling industry to Albany politicians in the last two years, plus $ 2.6 million to the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York.

Cuomo received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a company involved in a controversial program that provides U.S. visas to big dollar foreign investors.

Barney Keller, a spokesman for GOP gubernatorial rival Rick Lazio, said, «The last thing we need in Albany is another liberal Democrat like Steve Levy, who has taken over $ 400,000 in campaign contributions from the very same special interests that are stretching New York's pension system beyond the breaking point.»

The Republicans noted Addabbo was mentioned 38 times in the IG's report, and he received nearly $ 300,000 in campaign contributions from those implicated in the scandal.

• Assembly Member Jose Rivera, former head of the Bronx Democratic County Committee, and his children received $ 8,850 in campaign contributions from the Yankees between 2006 and 2008.

«After accepting more than $ 100,000 in campaign contributions from plaintiff's attorneys he employs in class action suits — which can be hugely lucrative to those firms — Mr. DiNapoli is using official state business to solicit campaign contributions.

According to the GOP, Gillibrand accepted more than $ 610,000 in campaign contributions from the Hollywood / entertainment industry last year.

Johnson created a new committee dedicated specifically to for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft — and gave its chairmanship to Ruben Diaz Sr., who got at least $ 11,800 in campaign contribution from employees and owners of taxi, limousine and dispatch companies for his election last year.

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That marked a break from the Conservative pledge under former Prime Minister David Cameron in a 2015 election campaign not to raise income tax, national insurance contributions or VAT.

Contributions from Bank One Corp. and Northwestern Mutual were a large part of the $ 60,000 political action committees and bank employees donated to Ryan's first reelection campaign in 2000.

Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction.

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.

In first quarter of 2018, 61 percent of the direct contributions to his campaign committee came from donations of $ 200 or less.

The complaint also accuses the Tillis campaign and the state GOP of receiving illegal contributions from a super PAC led by John Bolton — now Trump's national security adviser — that also used Cambridge Analytica in pro-Tillis campaign activity.

Disclose Company's Own Political Spending If a company chooses to use its own funds for direct campaign spending, the issue raised in many shareholder proposals is whether such corporations should — in addition to the governance procedures noted above — issue a comprehensive report which lists in one place all the recipients both of such direct spending and of contributions made from the company's employee PAC.

«Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction,» Mr. Trump wrote.

Her campaign raised $ 52 million while his brought in $ 37 million for the month, including a $ 2 million contribution from Trump himself.