Not exact matches
As the entire
upstate and Western New York regions go, so, too, goes each
individual town, village or
city.
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.
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.
Sixty - five
individuals from the New York area, including New York
City,
upstate NY, New Jersey, and Connecticut, attended the conference, plus representatives from as far away as Texas and Israel.