Sentences with phrase «member item funds»

The federal investigation follows subpoenas issued by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to the nonprofit Parent Information Network Inc., which is run by Huntley's daughter, Pamela Corley, according to the Associated Press, and received $ 400,000 in member item funding from the state Assembly between 1993 and 2008 and another $ 30,000 from Huntley in 2008.

City Councilman Peter Koo has given at least $ 24,000 in Council member item funds since 2012 to Bridge to Life, which promotes alternatives to abortion for women with unplanned pregnancies.

City Councilman Peter Koo has given at least $ 24,000 in Council member item funds since 2012 to Bridge to Life, which promotes alternatives to abortion.

Laura Seago, a research associate at the Brennan Center for Justice, said it could be money the senator is expecting to get from member items funds for the upcoming year.

«Don't forget the problem of retribution,» he said, referencing recent stories about Quinn's alleged use of member item funds to command political allegiance, adding, «The problem of retribution alone makes the case clearly for why we need to end this practice.»

The defendants falsely claimed that Parent Workshop would use member item funds secured by Huntley to hold workshops for and conduct outreach to parents on the workings of the New York City public school system.

(While member item funding dried up in 2009, lawmakers have once again inserted hundreds of line items worth millions of dollars into the aid to localities bill, which has now cleared both houses of the Legislature.

The funds Gardner is accused of stealing came at least partially from state legislative earmarks, so - called member item funds, administered by the Empire State Development Corporation and the state Office of Children and Family Services.

After Abbruzzese affirmed that Bruno proactively sought a consulting contract — he pitched himself as a former telecom executive who could help Abbruzzese's companies in their dealings with the F.C.C. — Pericak then had him testify about meetings with top Senate staffers that helped release $ 250,000 in state member item funding for Evident Technologies, a company in which Abbruzzese was an investor.

As part of their Joint Task Force on Public Integrity, the Offices of the Attorney General and State Comptroller previously indicted then - Senator Huntley and three individuals associated with the Parent Workshop, Inc., a nonprofit set up by former Senator Huntley that funneled member item funds intended to benefit the public to the senator's aide and to the senator's niece.

The indictment charges Patricia Savage, president of Parent Workshop and former Senator Huntley's aide, and Lynn Smith, the treasurer of Parent Workshop and Huntley's niece, of engaging in a fraudulent scheme to steal member item funds.

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.

A bill unveiled today by Sen. Jose M. Serrano — whose district includes Melrose, Mott Haven, Morris Heights and Highbridge — aims to change the way member item funds are distributed, according to a press release.

If the Assembly and Senate don't address the FMAP problem, Paterson threatened, he will not only veto their $ 519 million (about $ 419 million of which is education spending), but also the $ 193 million worth of member item funding that as reappropriated from last year.

With the City Council's 2010 fiscal budget, Councilman Eric Gioia (D - Sunnyside) trailed the pack in member item funding, though his office said the councilman made up for some of that by seeking private grants for constituent groups.

That investigation exposed a nonprofit set up by, as the AG's press release put it, «a New York state senator,» which allegedly funneled about $ 30,000 in member item funds to those associated with it, including the senator's aide and an individual who shares a residence with the senator.

«That is a benevolent organization... they have been checking [my member item funding] from left to right and found nothing.»

In the complaint filed Jan. 18 with the US attorney and signed under penalty of perjury, Moses wrote: «Sen. James Sanders approached me and my wife and demanded a pay - to - play situation for him to help our nonprofit organization with his member item funding.

After his election, Cuomo submitted two budgets that contained no member item funding; in 2012, he vetoed over 100 member items that were re-programmed from previous budgets.