Sentences with phrase «lobbying entity»

The law enacted last year covers the good - government organizations, which are also registered as lobbying entities.

The state's top lobbying entity is changing law firms.

Local government and school lobbying entities have sought to make changes to the cap, such as no longer tying it to the rate of inflation.

With Cuomo's blessing, the committee quickly became the highest - spending lobbying entity in the state, raising at least $ 17 million, while allowing its donors to remain anonymous.

Since its formation last year, CSNY has emerged as biggest spending lobbying entity for state government.

New York will be the first state in the nation to require donor disclosure from the not for profit lobbying entities like the Committee to Save New York, in the future.

In New York State Families for Excellent Schools Inc. has become the single largest lobbying entity in the State of New York spending nearly $ 10 million in 2014 alone to support the funding and expansion of charter schools.

New York will be the first state in the nation to require donor disclosure from not - for - profit lobbying entities like the Committee to Save New York, in the future.

OFA is the spin - off lobbying entity from President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign and is involved in the Fair Elections coalition.

Cuomo, speaking at an appearance in Batavia, says he supports the ethics board's decision to only require that lobbying entities report donors going forward, not retroactively, as some reformers had called for.

According to the indictment, the FBI and the criminal investigation division of the Internal Revenue Service were probing whether Tom Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm in exchange for steering business, which resulted in an unnamed lobbying entity to pay the firm $ 50,000 in order defray costs.

The group, which has registered as a not for profit 501C - 4, spent more than any other lobbying entity in 2011.

A lot of the debate in the early days of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics was how far back the new watchdog should go in requiring lobbying entities like the committee to disclosure their donors.

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group entity.

While their primary purpose has been to support Eva Moskowitz and the other New York Charter School operators, Families for Excellent Schools arrived in Connecticut from New York last year and registered both Families for Excellent Schools AND Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy as lobbying entities with Connecticut's Office of State Ethics.

The New York Gaming Association, which advocates for the interests of the state's nine racinos, filed a complaint alleging that several entities pushing a bill that would legalize daily fantasy sports betting have improperly failed to register as lobbying entities.

The report found that overall the top lobbying entities spent $ 23.4 million during the first six months the year.

Overall, education spending was a major driver of lobbying costs last year, accounting for $ 15.6 million of the nearly $ 25 million spent by the 10 largest lobbying entities.

The Northeast Charter Schools Network is a registered lobbying entity in the state of Connecticut and NECSN and its immediate predecessor the Connecticut Charter School Network were part of the $ 6 million coordinated campaign to support Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiative.

Cunningham reiterated that CSNY has in fact registered as a lobbying entity and will be filing a report as required with the CPI.

The group is different from the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying entity formed in 2011 that backed Cuomo's agenda at the time.

The non-profit organization formed last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his political allies won't register to lobby or become a lobbying entity.

The report released on Monday by lobbying and ethics regulators found the top lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.

The lobbying entity was formed in early 2011 to boost Cuomo's fiscal goals, which included spending reductions, a property tax cap and a new, less generous pension tier.

The lobbying entity formed to back Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fiscal agenda raised more than $ 1 million last year from five donors, according to the the group's 2012 federal tax filing shows.

«Essentially, a campaign account is being controlled by a lobbying entity,» he said.

He worked closely with a newly formed lobbying entity, the business - backed Committee to Save New York, encouraging them to become involved in the annual state budget fight.

Questions ranging from who is funding the group, whether the names of the donors will be released and whether it will register as a lobbying entity were not answered.

NYCLASS was also forced to admit that it failed to register with JCOPE as a lobbying entity and must file the required documents as part of the settlement.

Federal law enforcement officials charge that Libous» false statements included that he could not recall how his son started to work at the firm, no deals were made to get his son a job at the firm, he was unaware that his son's salary was drawn in part by a lobbying entity, that he never promised to refer work to the firm and that he had no business or personal relationship with the law firm.

The campaign — which featured nearly $ 6 million worth of advertising raised mostly through the party's soft - money account — was seen as one that supplanted the defunct Committee to Save New York, a coalition of business and labor that registered as a lobbying entity.

The Conservative Party has released memos backing specific legislative matters, while the labor - backed WFP has registered a policy arm, the Working Families Organization as a lobbying entity.

Senator Bill Perkins asked Grandeau if he thinks ALEC is a lobbying entity, using the proverbial description «if it walks like a duck» -.

De Blasio and the Campaign for One New York have been fighting a bitter public battle against the scope of JCOPE's inquiry, which the ethics commission began in 2015 to investigate whether or not the nonprofit had improperly failed to register as a lobbying entity that year.

A law approved in 2011 aimed at requiring more disclosure for state officials who earn outside income from lobbying entities to appears to be rarely enforced by state ethics regulators.

As the letter notes, the Working Families Party also has a lobbying entity that files.

The alliance is a registered lobbying entity.

While technically a lobbying entity, the CSNY shared many attributes with independent expenditure committees: it raised large sums of money from a small number of donors to bolster the agenda of a specific politician with whom it purportedly did not coordinate, running advertisements thematically identical to those funded by the Democratic Party's campaign finance committee later in Cuomo's term.