Sentences with phrase «in public monies»

New Paltz county Legislator Ken Wishnick, a Democrat, took umbrage with Republican legislature Chairwoman Terry Bernardo for spending $ 1,200 in public monies to rent Kingston's cavernous UPAC Theater for last week's (pro-gun) legislative meeting.

He offered no explanations on how a county executive could move millions in public monies from one bank to another without legislature approval.

The SolarCity project in Buffalo has received nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in public monies, and the company, owned by Elon Musk, did not have to make any investment.

The church negotiated with the Port Authority, which oversees construction at the site, and in 2008 both sides tentatively agreed that the church would be rebuilt nearby using tens of millions of dollars in public money.

With so much parity in the NFL, wiseguys and betting syndicates eagerly take underdogs — especially at inflated prices caused by the increase in public money from recreational bettors.

Additionally, an exponential increase in public money flowing on these games can offer even more valuable opportunities than normal regular - season slates.

Former Fortune 500 executive with track record in securing $ 3 billion in public money joins sports tech startup to boost financial growth

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No, the leaders will no longer have to emerge from meetings to a gaggle of pesky reporters trying to ask simple questions about how $ 140 billion in public money will be spent.

Since he was denied more than $ 3 million in public money, he will likely have to raise it on his own (but still abide by all of the CFB's rules).

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez pitched a plan last year that would kick in public money to expand them to every borough, but the company's latest proposal would do it without taxpayer funds.

De Blasio argued that he needed millions of dollars in public money for his campaign because his Democratic opponents were getting significant media coverage.

By the end, we have no doubt that he'll have billed half a million dollars in public money for himself.»

«And so, at the end of the day, all told, we allege that Sheldon Silver effectively converted $ 500,000 in public money into over $ 3 million in personal riches, which is a nice private profit on being a public official,» Bharara said.

While Cuomo is not accused of wrongdoing and isn't expected to testify, the charges against Percoco have damaged both his image as a reformer and one of his signature policy initiatives, the investment of billions of dollars in public money in to upstate economic development programs.

Labour received # 183,000 in public money to train officials in new funding rules shortly before the party accepted secret donations, it has emerged.

That qualified him for about $ 25,000 in public money under the Citizens Election Program, which turned out to be enough for a 1,000 - vote win.

Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy and his Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman will receive about $ 6.5 million in public money to finance their re-election campaign.

«Given the fact that the state has spent more than $ 11 million in public money to settle sexual harassment claims, this legislative response is essential to protect hardworking taxpayers.»

«Now that the bank is 60 per cent public owned and has received so many billions of pounds in public money these unacceptable practices must stop.

Most of the money is paid to The Big Word, Britain's biggest language services firm, which received # 3.5 million in public money during 2011.

All told, those projects won $ 30 million in public money, roughly 5 percent of the $ 615 million the council has brought to CNY.

The district has been scarred by scandal: Just over a year ago, former city councilman Miguel Martinez, seemingly one of the bright lights at City Hall, pleaded guilty to swiping more than $ 100,000 in public money.

Those developments followed New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's July lawsuit accusing Armor of providing «dangerously inadequate health services,» and of defrauding Nassau taxpayers by continuing to take millions in public money.

Attorney Gloria Allred says she's cooperating with JCOPE as it investigates the sexual harassment allegations against Assemblyman Vito Lopez and why Speaker Silver authorized the payment of $ 103,000 in public money to settle the case.

In the specific case of A4e, whose former head Emma Harrison was a close adviser to David Cameron, the department has yet to assess if the company is «fit and proper» to be paid millions in public money, MPs said.

Public Advocate Letitia James didn't just take $ 750,000 in public money that she didn't need for her campaign this year: She spent $ 500,000 of it on Election Day itself — ...

The Malliotakis campaign, with an estimated $ 1.2 million on hand, scooped up $ 735,000 in public money on Thursday for its final push.

A thinktank headed by a former adviser to the education secretary, Michael Gove, has been awarded # 500,000 in public money by his department.

IT IS one of the planet's last true wildernesses, yet a handful of the world's wealthiest nations are plundering its riches to satisfy the appetites of luxury consumers — all with the help of billions in public money.

A study published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in public money.

Despite more than two billion dollars in public money spent trying to prove that lowering saturated fat will prevent heart attacks, the diet - heart hypothesis has not held up.»

Hundreds of billions of dollars in public money are required each year to address societal problems associated with crime, substance abuse, and poor physical and mental health in general (e.g., Insel, 2008; McCollister, French, & Fang, 2010; Rehm et al., 2009).

Writing in Public Money & Management, researchers familiar with the true private - sector track record offered a word of caution: «There is a risk that politicians, government officials, and others, newly enamored of the language of failure and turnaround and inadequately informed of the empirical evidence and practical experience in the for - profit sector... will have unrealistic expectations of the transformative power of the turnaround process.»

The Journal Sentinel also reported that Rosella Tucker, founder and director of the now closed Milwaukee's New Hope Institute of Science and Technology charter school, was convicted in federal court of embezzling $ 300,000 in public money.

Last summer North Carolina charter school officials put the small suburban school, which got about $ 1.6 million in public money last year, under extra supervision because of state concerns about finances and parent complaints about building safety and school leadership.

And since 1990, roughly $ 2 billion in public money has been funneled into private and religious schools in Wisconsin, and the payments keep escalating.

The State Board of Education had tough questions Wednesday for two for - profit virtual education companies in line to receive millions in public money to teach children through their home computers.

So far, I have documented 310 schools, in nine states and the District of Columbia that are teaching creationism, and receiving tens of millions of dollars in public money through school voucher programs.

A Sun Sentinel investigation found that several charter school operators exploited Florida's weak laws overseeing charter schools, receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money to open charter schools that closed within months.

Louisiana Recovery School District officials said the principals, Tim Hearin and Alex Perez, snagged almost $ 320,000 in public money for the school in the 2014 - 15 academic year by artificially inflating special education services.

In the end, Dalio decided to stay in Westport, for the time being, although he did keep in the range of $ 52 million in public money to cover some of his costs.

HARTFORD — City and state educators said Monday that they had been served with subpoenas by a federal grand jury examining the expenditure of millions of dollars in public money by the troubled charter school management company FUSE.

The operator would oversee management and staffing in the beleaguered school for a five - year term, starting this fall, managing more than $ 2.1 million dollars in public money each year.

During the 2010 - 2011 school year up to $ 140,000,000 in public money will be paid to private schools to educate 32,320 students, 80 % of which attend religious schools.

It is these individuals - not homeowners, not the American public - that are being defended by the promise of trillions of dollars in public money.

For more on how the Interior Department's budget aims to expand fossil fuel and funnel billions in public money directly to fossil fuel producers, see our recent blog: «Trump's Interior budget: More drilling, more mining, more handouts.»

Faraday Future has already justified a massive investment worth hundreds of millions of dollars in public money for a plant in an economically depressed part of Nevada.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in public money are required each year to address societal problems associated with crime, substance abuse, and poor physical and mental health in general (e.g., Insel, 2008; McCollister, French, & Fang, 2010; Rehm et al., 2009).

The company plans to raise $ 1.5 billion in public money over the next three years through its non-traded REIT, the Phillips Edison ARC.