Sentences with phrase «into campaign contributions»

He shut down the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption after they started looking into his campaign contributions.

«Broadway Stages and its owner and president, Gina Argento, appear to be involved parties in State and Federal investigations into campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio,» DiNapoli's office wrote to state officials on Dec. 21, according to a letter obtained by The Post that was first reported by the Staten Island Advance.

«As discussed,» Davis wrote, «Broadway Stages and its owner and president, Gina Argento, appear to be involved parties in State and Federal investigations into campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.»

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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.

Investigators looking into de Blasio's fundraising practices are now scrutinizing his 2013 campaign for possible straw donors, checking to see if they were either reimbursed for their contributions or given cash to pass along to the campaign in order to skirt the city's donation limits.

Grandeau himself says there's no evidence the campaign contributions or the trip offers directly resulted in DiNapoli pressuring the oil company into settling the suit.

The US Attorney's Office in Manhattan has launched a probe into an upstate health care company that received over $ 25 million in state grants after making significant campaign contributions to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Last Friday, he announced he was doing away with his self - imposed campaign contribution limits, saying he didn't want to unilaterally disarm against Wilson, who may or may not invest a boatload of his own cash into his campaign.

In response, in papers filed Tuesday, Eastern District prosecutor Lara Treinis Gatz said while both cases involved investigations into potential bribery, legally there was a fundamental difference between the two: the Mangano case involved personal enrichment, giving of gifts and a no - show job to Mangano's wife while DeBlasio's involved campaign contributions.

If anything, her higher profile because of the «Me Too» movement has translated into more campaign contributions from the grass roots.

Under state law, the party committees, which can receive contributions often 10 times larger than candidates can directly, are permitted to move unlimited amounts of money into candidates» campaign accounts.

Corporations Use Limited Liability Companies to Skirt Campaign Contribution Limits Limited Liability Companies associated with luxury real estate mogul Leonard Litwin have channeled more than $ 900,000 into races for the New York State Senate this election cycle, largely to Republicans seeking to hold on to majority control.

The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption had begun an investigation into tax breaks like these and their connections to campaign contributions, but canceled a planned subpoena of REBNY's records after Cuomo's top adviser called one of the commission's chairs «in a fury,» according to the New York Times.

An effective site also has features that can turn site visitors into advocates or marketers for the candidate or issue, such as email mailing list sign - up forms, contribution forms, «email - a-friend» buttons, and (for advocacy campaigns) email - your - elected - official forms.

There is a federal investigation into whether donors to the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit the mayor started to advance his political agenda, received favors in exchange for their contributions.

Recent reports have called into question an estimated $ 75,000 in campaign contributions received by the Staten Island district attorney's campaign.

«I remember Kirsten Gillibrand when she came into his office every three days to ask him for money and ask for major campaign contributions,» Eric said in a Wednesday interview on WABC Radio with Rita Cosby.

Jenny Hou is accused of helping Liu's campaign skirt campaign finance laws by allegedly using straw donors to channel illegal contributions far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign coffers.

A New York State Board of Elections investigator appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have found a back door way into breaking some of the secrecy surrounding a major campaign contribution loophole in New York.

«However, I will not unilaterally disarm and allow my opponent to pour unlimited contributions into his campaign while mine continues to accept less than half of what is permitted under current law.»

The FBI, which led the investigation into Pigeon, claims the former Erie County Democratic Party chairman illegally solicited a $ 25,000 contribution to the Cuomo campaign from one of his clients, a Montreal - based internet gambling company.

In the late 90's, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn conducted an investigation into whether the 1994 Pataki gubernatorial campaign traded state paroles in exchange for contributions.

An executive order signed last week will require chaplains to be active clergy members and also live in Westchester County comes as a response to a federal probe into whether or not former County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican, offered up a chaplain position in exchange for campaign contributions.

«In this case, Glenwood's campaign contributions are relevant to Glenwood's motive to enter into an alleged quid pro quo relationship with Silver, even if the contributions themselves were not part of the quid pro quo exchange,» Caproni's order read.

Last year, Westchester County police chaplains Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz were suspended after a probe called into question campaign contributions to Astorino's re-election campaign; specifically, a $ 15,000 contribution made in the same month that Reichberg was appointed chaplain.

Ralph Nader condemned the ruling, [79] saying that «With this decision, corporations can now directly pour vast amounts of corporate money, through independent expenditures, into the electoral swamp already flooded with corporate campaign PAC contribution dollars.»

«In this case, Glenwood's campaign contributions are relevant to Glenwood's motive to enter into an alleged quid pro quo relationship with Silver, even if the contributions themselves were not part of the quid pro quo exchange,» Caproni wrote in her order, according to Politico.

A state Board of Elections investigator appointed by Governor Cuomo may have found a back door way into breaking some of the secrecy surrounding a major campaign contribution loophole in New York.

An increasing amount of campaign contributions come from the wealthiest donors.As more big money floods into elections, we should...

The Senate GOP, which is based mostly upstate and on LI is sticking its nose into NYC schools / charters because it needs the campaign contributions of the charter billionaires, not because it wants to help anyone.

So far, the five - member Independent Democratic Conference hasn't really drilled down into what an overhaul of campaign laws and political contributions might actually be.

More than a dozen of them were convicted of charges including authorizing bribes to get on a ballot, diverting money meant for community programs into a campaign and skimming funds from contributions to a Little League baseball program.

Though labor unions criticize the LLC loophole as a method for circumventing individual campaign contributions and call for its closure, they use affiliates to pump millions of dollars into the political system, creating a double standard — according to critics.

On Tuesday, Zeldin's campaign blasted out a fundraising email that sought to debunk Demos» claims and then turn the negative ads into a vehicle for contributions.

Trump's son Eric echoed his dad's recent attack on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, saying he renmembers «when she came into his office every three days to ask him for money and ask for major campaign contributions,» adding: «There is no one who wanted to get into his office more than Kirsten Gillibrand.»

The inquiry into 2014 contributions solicited by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign apparatus and intended to assist the Senate Democrats is based on a state ban on contributions to a party committee if they are given or solicited for a particular candidate, with an intent to evade individual contribution limits.

Nearly all of the $ 48,470 Liu gave back to donors was refunded on and after Nov. 16, the day a bundler for his campaign, Xing Wu «Oliver» Pan, was federally charged with skirting campaign finance laws by dividing a large contribution into smaller ones using straw donors.

Referred to as «Uncle Leland» by his co-conspirators, the San Francisco Democrat allegedly offered to smuggle millions of dollars worth of automatic weapons into the United States from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines in exchange for campaign contributions, according to the FBI affidavit.

Coffey has poured $ 3million of his own cash into his campaign, but he has been dogged by allegations of pay - to - play campaign contributions when he was in private practice.

More than a dozen have been convicted of charges including authorizing bribes to get on a ballot, diverting money meant for community programs into a campaign and skimming funds from contributions to a Little League baseball program.

Rep. Jason Perillo, R - Shelton, said that system «simply launders campaign contributions from special interests» and sends it flooding into Connecticut's election system.

Hou and Pan are accused of using straw donors to funnel illegal contributions that are far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign chest.

The US Attorney's Office in Manhattan has launched a probe into an upstate health care company that received over $ 25 million in state grants after making significant campaign contributions to...

In February, the scheduled trial of a former New York State Senator begins related to charges from an alleged scheme to secretly funnel campaign contributions into pockets of a staffer;

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins called for an investigation into «the activities of Mr. Cuomo starting with the enormous amount of massive campaign contributions he has raised during his tenure.

Liu's campaign has been floundering since the arrest of the 25 - year - old campaign treasurer in February on allegations that she helped use straw donors to channel illegal contributions far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign coffers.

They are exploiting changes to campaign laws and regulations that have allowed wealthy individuals and businesses to pool unlimited contributions into super PACs that in turn have inundated the airwaves with negative advertisements.

The loophole has allowed special interest groups to funnel tens of millions of dollars into political campaigns, sometimes in secret, and circumvent contribution limits that individuals would otherwise have to follow, according to the Brennan Center, which has sued New York's Board of Elections to try to force it to close the loophole.

There are also a slew of investigations swirling around de Blasio — including into his contributions to State Senate candidates (there's Albany again) and his fundraising through non-profit groups, an issue the Campaign Finance Board will take under discussion later today.

While the advocates have not poured money into lobbyists, they make campaign contributions and exert pressure in other ways.