Sentences with phrase «inappropriate use of funds»

Not exact matches

New York's Gagosian Gallery and Jeff Koons were sued by a collector who accused gallery founder Larry Gagosian and the artist of scheming to exploit demand for his works and using «inappropriate and highly questionable practices» to fund extravagant lifestyles.

We will ensure accounting consistency among the Estimates and the Public Accounts; provide costing analysis for each government bill; restore the requirement that government borrowing plans receive Parliamentary approval; end the inappropriate use of omnibus legislation; and we will ensure the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) is truly independent, properly funded, and answerable only, and directly, to Parliament.

I think it would have been inappropriate for him, and certainly he would have been criticized by the McCain people and the press — and probably should have been — if on a political trip in Europe, paid for by political funds, not the taxpayers, to go essentially, then, and be accused of using our wounded men and women as props for his campaign.

But Senate officials say the required State Police background check revealed a clean legal slate for the former Republican senator from Newfane, who for more than a year loomed as a target of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara over possible inappropriate use of campaign funds.

That includes ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

Common Cause / New York and the Citizens Budget Commission, in a joint statement, said, «Providing staff to private schools, including rules concerning salaries and work requirements, would be an inappropriate, indeed probably unconstitutional, use of government funds and regulatory oversight for non-public, religious purposes.

Federal officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development objected to the loan as an inappropriate use of anti-poverty funds and it was subsequently recalled.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

Using that money, Mr. Giardina said, «seems inappropriate when there is a $ 2.2 billion fund to address every septic waste problem we have here,» he said of the E.P.A.'s Clean Water State Revolving Ffund to address every septic waste problem we have here,» he said of the E.P.A.'s Clean Water State Revolving FundFund.

Candidates are required to make the disclosures to avoid the potential for secret payments to relatives, kickbacks to government vendors or other inappropriate uses of campaign funds, Lerner said.

There supposedly is a «duplication of efforts,» a rivalry between CDC and the U.S. Agency for International Development that undermine in - country programs, an «inappropriate» use of funds.

The national testing proposal «fails to provide safeguards against the invalid and inappropriate use of test results,» the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a Washington - based coalition of groups, including the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said in Sept. 4 letter to Mr. Clinton.

The local press has reported that the investigation discovered «that Gilliland had used resources of the publicly funded federation to buy personal and «inappropriate» items [sex games], including training for his son, personal tax advice and DVDs».

The Corporate Education Reform Industry, with the help of elected officials likes of Dannel Malloy, Andrew Cuomo, Jeb Bush and others, have used the problems facing public schools in poorer communities to institute an agenda of more standardized testing, inappropriate teacher evaluation programs and the privatization of public education through the creation of privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools.

Cognitive referencing, the use of results on intelligence and language quotients to decide children's academic options and funding eligibility, is established as inappropriate practice yet continues to be used by many education systems.

For parents, teachers and public school advocates who were looking to see if Malloy was going to soften his pro-corporate education reform industry agenda, there was no sign that the governor intended to hold Connecticut's charter schools accountable for their use of public funds nor was there a suggestion that the Malloy administration was going to fix their unfair «Teacher Evaluation» program by decoupling the inappropriate Common Core Test scores from the evaluation process for Connecticut's public school teachers.

Shavar Jeffries, the mouthpiece for a corporate funded, New York based, charter school advocacy group that calls itself «Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)» uses the space to urge Connecticut legislators to DEFEAT a bill that, if passed, would require Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration to develop an honest and effective teacher evaluation system rather than continue with Malloy's present program that is dependent on the results of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

Although the Democratic Party has consistently claimed that all the money it raises is used to beat Republicans, in an unethical, inappropriate and underhanded move, the Chair of the Democratic State Central Committee, along with the help of Malloy's campaign operatives, used more than $ 50,000 in Democratic State Central funds to directly bank - roll the anti-public education slate in Bridgeport against the pro-public education Democratic challenge slate.

«The ad hoc adjustments used by banks, included inappropriate calculation of the cost of funds; no change in the base rate even as the cost of deposits declined significantly; sharp increase in the return on net worth out of tune with past track record or future prospects to offset the impact of reduction in the cost of deposits on the lending rate; and inclusion of new components in the base rate formula to adjust the rate to a desired level.

The lawsuit alleges Koons and Gagosian gallery founder Larry Gagosian of using money paid in advance for art as contributing to funding an extravagant lifestyles by using «inappropriate and highly questionable practices,» according to Fortune magazine.

You can either view this as an inappropriate use of public funds.

On the appropriate funding level, it notes «the view that the unfunded liability presents a crisis derives from the inappropriate use of private insurance company metrics to the evaluation of the health of the WSIB accident fund.»