Sentences with phrase «millions on consultants»

They will spend thousands or millions on consultants to tell them what tie to wear and what positions to take, but they can't stop themselves from making phone calls that anyone with any common sense could tell them to not make.

She'd never spend $ 2.4 million on consultants and meetings.

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Keith stayed on for a while as a consultant, while Marcus became a vice-president, managing the company's bids on giant public - private partnership projects, such as the first phase of the reconstruction of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a $ 300 - million gig.

To attract the best salespeople, Chris Taylor, cofounder of $ 18.5 - million International Postal Consultants Inc. (IPC), which sells international - mailing services, uses a system whereby salespeople earn «royalties» on their accounts: in addition to a commission, salespeople receive a percentage of the profit an account brings in for the life of the account.

The consultant was convicted of stealing $ 1.7 million through inflated invoices, which he spent on luxury cars and Long Island real estate, while secretly favoring Verizon and undermining the competitive bidding process required by E-rate rules.

The company also paid $ 1.2 million to consultants who were lobbying on behalf of the company's efforts to change law related to how grant funds are taxed, the report said.

An analysis by New York HR consultant Nat Stoddard pegs the price of a CEO mis - hire at a large - cap company at more than US$ 50 million, based not only on salary and severance outlay but also factors like lost productivity and opportunities.

Heidi Nazarudin now has nearly half a million Instagram followers on her account @theambitionista, but as a consultant, she'll tell you that numbers aren't everything.

A crackdown in Ontario last month put the spotlight on these products when the province's financial services regulator issued $ 1.1 million in fines against four parties that were involved with syndicated mortgages for real estate development projects in which Ontario - based Fortress Real Developments Inc. was a developer or development consultant.

Smaller firms also reported paying between $ 3,000 and $ 1.4 million in fees to external consultants, while staff accountants spent as much as 90 % of their time on compliance issues.

She eventually came across Stella & Dot, the Silicon Valley venture - funded $ 300 million firm that enlists thousands of consultants — dubbed stylists — to sell its jewelry and accessories at in - home trunk shows or on personalized websites.

Revelations that digital consultants to the Trump campaign misused the data of millions of Facebook users set off a furor on both sides of the Atlantic.

David Robinson, in his capacity as trade and education consultant for Education International, a global union federation claiming to represent 30 million teachers and other education workers, met with WTO negotiators during the ministerial to discuss potential impacts on public education.

In fact, over a decade ago, I was told by my peers of the exact same scam, described by neuro - linguistic programming expert Derren Brown of a fool - proof system that could predict the winner of every horse race around the world, used by Wall Street financial consultants on unsuspecting prospects to successfully gather millions of dollars of AUM.

On Friday, industry consultants J.D. Power and LMC Automotive maintained their 2017 sales forecast of 17.6 million vehicles, an increase of 0.2 percent from 2016.

OPEC supply has fallen in October to 31.64 million barrels per day (bpd) from a revised 31.76 million in September, according to the survey, based on shipping data and information from sources at oil companies, OPEC and consultants.

Among other things, we brought a consultant on board to aid in our sharpening our mission statement, revamping fund raising, and to guide us in raising the resources for a $ 1.4 million program enhancement and building project scheduled for completion in 2002.

She urges parents who suspect a supply problem to consult a lactation consultant first before self - diagnosing and spending a million bucks on supplements.

The NYC Council's spending on pet projects will jump by nearly 3 percent to $ 61.5 million in the coming fiscal year — with plenty of political pork being dished out to nonprofits affiliated with firms who've worked as consultants for Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Admittedly, the $ 104 million spent advertising in print and on newspaper websites in 2006 was still only 5 % of the amount spent on TV ads in that cycle, but some politicians and consultants swear by newspapers and their sites as a channel to reach the politically active — including those under 40, who tend to get their news online.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Finance Chairman Dominic Recchia Jr. say the city could save $ 125 million by slashing non-classroom outlays on such things as public relations and outside consultants.

Massey, who only kicked off his fundraising in August, has already spent a whopping $ 1.8 million on his campaign — much of it on staff and consultants.

Last week it was reported that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent roughly # 500 million on external consultants over the past two years to provide technical advice.

Joined by local fire chiefs and nonprofit service providers, Martins stood on the grounds of the county fire academy in Old Bethpage and said the state - appointed Nassau Interim Finance Authority «owes the county taxpayers an apology» for spending up to $ 150,000 on a consultant's report listing $ 87 million in potential cuts.

The lawsuit, which is being filed by a lawyer representing former staff members, claimed in the two years before closing, the hospital also paid $ 17 million for «management consultants,» $ 3.8 million on «professional fund - raising» and $ 104 million on unspecified costs.

«We're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on contracts with vendors and consultants that have been added... there's little accountability.»

Schumer, who enjoys a double - digit lead in the polls and is sitting on more than $ 23 million worth of campaign cash, has little to worry about from Townsend — a GOP political consultant who is running statewide for the first time and is unknown and vastly underfunded.

Updated, 12:40 p.m. John F. Haggerty Jr., a Republican political consultant accused of stealing $ 1.1 million from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg during Mr. Bloomberg's 2009 re-election campaign, was found guilty of second - degree grand larceny and second - degree money laundering by a jury in Manhattan on Friday morning.

Parties worried over the consequences of the sweeping directives from the powers that be in reversing and canceling major projects initiated by the Ato Ahwoi Board have warned that GNPC may have to cough up the $ 7 million to settle the Consultants, Architects and others hired on the Headquarters Project.

A day after the first reporting deadline, only five political consultants had registered with the state as part of a new transparency measure on which New York is spending $ 1 million to set up.

The national House and Senate committees on both sides of the aisle spend hundreds of millions in IE ads and polling to help get their candidates elected — a cut of which goes to the consultants who produce them.

Scott's state political committee, however, has never slowed, spending millions on campaign - styled ads, polling and consultants.

Adam, a $ 10,000 - a-month consultant for AbTech, eventually lost his job with the firm when he couldn't help expedite payments to AbTech from the Nassau contract, despite assurances his father was pushing legislation on public - private partnerships and a potential $ 800 million clean water fund that would have helped the company's bottom line.

The group, charged with distributing $ 150 million in funds as part of a community benefits agreement with West Harlem for Columbia University's Manhattanville campus expansion, had spent more on consultants than grants and was investigated by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

C&S Companies served as the county's consultant on the project and did not receive any of the $ 49.5 million.

He also enriched his political consultants with a Brewster's Millions spending spree on negative ads attacking his opponent, Joe Lhota.

Despite receiving $ 3.55 million from Columbia University, the group has spent $ 400,000 on consultants, $ 100,000 more than it's spent on programming, DNAinfo reported.

An outdated online resume boasts of her work as an IT consultant, including her work on leading a team's bid for a $ 100 million contract to «overhaul a governmental organization.»

One consultant was identified by the city's schools investigator for grossly overbilling the department, another for using city time and a DOE email account to start his own personal business and a third for carrying on a personal relationship with the DOE supervisor of his $ 42 million contract.

Mr. Massey's campaign also continued to spend money faster than it took it in, recording more than $ 1 million in spending in the latest filing, mostly on consultants and campaign staff.

LOWER MANHATTAN — A marketing consultant used his connection to the Puerto Rican Day Parade to line his own pockets, scamming more than $ 1 million in donations to fund his trips and personal expenses — while the board stood by and did nothing — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on Thursday.

The City Council's spending on pet projects will jump by nearly 3 percent to $ 61.5 million in the coming fiscal year — with plenty of political pork being dished out to nonprofits affiliated with firms who've worked as consultants for Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, records released Monday show.

The campaign has spent $ 1.9 million so far — the lion's share of it on campaign workers and high - powered consultants such as pollsters Arthur Finkelstein and Doug Schoen, former Joe Biden speechwriter Ryan Clancy and Ann Hersberger, a fundraiser with ties to Jeb Bush.

Facebook Inc faced new calls for regulation from within U.S. Congress and was hit with questions about personal data safeguards on Saturday after reports a political consultant gained inappropriate access to 50 million users» data starting in 2014.

His sustained focus on the city's finances has cast the race as a battle of fiscal forecasts, with Sheehan pointing to the recent obtainment of $ 12.5 million in state aid as a sign her approach is working and Commisso wielding a state - backed consultant's study to paint a darker picture.

Glenn R. Rink, the chief executive of AbTech Industries, likened an email from a Glenwood Management executive to a «death threat»: If Adam Skelos, who was working at AbTech as a consultant, didn't get a raise, then AbTech could lose out on a $ 12 million storm water treatment contract on Long Island.

Reaching millions of people worldwide as a personal health consultant, writer and radio talk show host, Jonathan educates the public on the health benefits of an organic (non-GMO) diet with high - quality supplementation and healthy lifestyle habits, including exercise and meditation.

David Evans, an online dating consultant, noted that about 30 million people will log on this year to one of the estimated 1,500 online dating services nationwide.

Many have welcomed the pared - down approach, saying that millions of pounds were wasted under the previous programme on unnecessary consultant fees and extravagant design statements that could have been spent on teaching.

Just this morning, WNYC's Sarah Gonzales gave us an update on how some of the characters in the book are doing (How Booker, Christie Spent the $ 100 Million Facebook Donation), including a breakout of spending (most of which went to teachers and principals, not consultants).