Sentences with phrase «legislative member items»

A spokeswoman for Governor Cuomo's campaign says the governor actually reformed previous economic development practices, scrapping the notorious legislative member items, known as pork barrel projects, for regional approaches led by local leaders.

Silver has also been an unabashed defender of legislative member items, saying that lawmakers know their districts best when it comes to allocating state dollars to local causes.

Others resemble the old legislative members items, which were special allocations to individual legislators, going to things like expanding recreational facilities at parks or sprucing up a local theater.

NYC Councilman Ruben Wills was indicted today by NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for a fraudulent scheme in which he stole somewhere between $ 3,000 and $ 33,000 in state legislative member items steered to his non-profit by his political crony State Senator Shirley Huntley.

Schneiderman and DiNapoli had previously announced that the two aides to Huntley, Smith and Savage, were charged with pocketing nearly $ 30,000 in legislative member item funds through the group.

Since 1999, the New York State Legislature has distributed more than $ 900 million through legislative member items to more than 20,000 nonprofit entities.

Traditional pork barrel spending — known as legislative member items — was banished from the state's budget after Gov. Cuomo took office in 2011 but lawmakers have found other ways to fund pet projects.

The commission had also checked into at least one other health care non-profit that received legislative member item grants in Brooklyn, the person said.

This week, Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed 128 Legislative Member items totaling $ 640,000.

For this reason, Governor Cuomo has refused to fund new legislative member items and is carefully reviewing existing items.

As expected, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the superseding indictment of his former state Senate colleague and fellow Democrat, Shirley Huntley for filing fraudulent documents in order to have aides pocket legislative member item money.

A spokeswoman for Governor Cuomo's campaign says the governor actually reformed previous economic development practices, scrapping the notorious legislative member items, known as pork - barrel projects, for regional approaches led by local leaders.

Governor Cuomo has vetoed over half a million dollars of legislative member items, saying he's following through on a promise to ban the funds, which have been used in the past to finance lawmakers» pet projects.

Others resemble the old legislative members items — which were special allocations to individual legislators — going to things like expanding recreational facilities at parks or sprucing up a local theater.

In December, Schneiderman's office indicted Patricia Savage, a Huntley aide, and Lynn Smith, the senator's niece, on charges of submitting false documents to the state in order to misappropriate about $ 29,950 in state legislative member items that Huntley had steered to Parent Workshop Inc., her Nassau - based nonprofit.

For example, as POLITICO reported early Friday, there's another $ 385 million for the State and Municipal Facilities (SAM) earmarking initiative, which has been derided by critics on the left and right as a «pork» program akin to legislative member items.

The Conservative Party believes that just as the Legislative Branch of government should eliminate all legislative member items, the Executive Branch must eliminate «executive» items also.

A spokeswoman for Cuomo's campaign says the governor actually reformed previous economic development practices, scrapping the notorious legislative member items, known as pork barrel projects, for regional approaches led by local leaders.

The investigation found that the president and treasurer of the Parent Workshop, Inc. filed phony documents with the state in order to receive public money via a legislative member item.

According to the state's indictment, the president and treasurer of the Parent Workshop submitted fraudulent documents to New York State to obtain public money from a legislative member item sponsored by then - Senator Huntley.