Sentences with phrase «money for real estate developers»

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Sterling Bay — a Chicago - based real estate developer, investor, builder and innovator — has revealed a proposed design for McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD)'s new headquarters building, according to a report on CNN Money.

Testifying in his own defense, Halloran admitted taking the cash, but said he considered the money payment for consulting services and never procured any public funds for the real estate developers / FBI agents.

Still, money is money, and a special session would also likely consider (and approve) a revised 421 - a housing subsidy that is a priority for real estate developers who are key funders of the Senate Republicans» coffers.

Founded by real estate developers and business executives at Mr. Cuomo's urging shortly after he was elected governor, the committee has rapidly become the biggest spender on lobbying in Albany, providing not only critical backing for Mr. Cuomo but also a counterweight to the labor unions whose money and political muscle have traditionally dominated the Capitol.

Silver, 71, was charged with honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering stemming from schemes in which he used his leadership position to benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers in exchange for cash.

The charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering stemmed from schemes by which he obtained nearly $ 4 million in exchange for using his position to help benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

Think about it — wealthy NYC real estate owners / developers have found that if they give huge amounts of money to upstate Senate campaigns they can assure those Senators will look after their interests (i.e. - screw renters) while these Senators regularly run for office telling the upstate rubes to be afraid of NYC political domination.

A little more than three months ago the defendant in question was a Democrat, Shelly Silver, accused of taking bribes and kickbacks of $ 4 million, some of the money being listed as «referral fees» for steering asbestos cases and real - estate developers to Silver - connected law firms.

Jona Rechnitz, 33, a wealthy Brooklyn real estate developer who pleaded guilty in March to charges of corruption, testified at the bribery trial of Norman Seabrook, the former president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, on Thursday that he «was giving money to the mayor of New York in exchange for favors.»

In the weeks leading up to the election, top de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz, a Brooklyn real estate developer who pleaded guilty to charges of corruption, alleged that he gave money to the mayor's campaign in exchange for favors from City Hall.

Jona Rechnitz, 33, a wealthy Brooklyn real estate developer who pleaded guilty to charges of corruption, alleged at the bribery trial of Norman Seabrook, the former president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, that he gave money to the mayor's campaign in exchange for favors from City Hall.

Yesterday, the F.B.I. arrested Councilman Dan Halloran and State Senator Malcolm Smith for allegedly attempting to bribe Republican party officials and also, in the case of Halloran, planning to redirect City Council member items to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in exchange for money.

Henning said it's possible that other conduct mentioned in the report — such as transactions between the governor's office and companies like real estate developer Extell — could fall under mail and wire fraud statutes, which make it a crime for any public official to be «taking money and misrepresenting how it was used,» he said.

During a six - month stretch in which a top executive has reportedly become a cooperating witness for a federal investigation of a top Albany politician, the real estate developer donated only about 6 percent of the money it gave to political committees during comparable cycles in recent years.

Halloran was accused, among other things, of offering to redirect some of his Council money to an undercover agent posing as a real estate developer in return for cash payments.

Mr. Silver, 71, a Manhattan Democrat, was found guilty on Nov. 30 on honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering charges, for schemes through which he obtained nearly $ 4 million in exchange for using his office to help benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

«I think raising money for de Blasio will be a challenge,» said the real estate executive, arguing that developers may be loth to donate if it means their name could pop up in a criminal probe.

Ray Donovan, Season 1, Episode 8: Ray coerces a shady real estate developer to return the money paid for Bunchy's house.

House flippers and real estate developers who have the goal of purchasing a property, renovating it, and reselling it for a profit use hard money to quickly start and finish their projects.

Barack Ferrazzano's clients include publicly traded real estate investment trusts, private REITS and equity funds, entrepreneurs, money center banks and other institutional lenders, non-traditional lenders, pension fund advisors, private investment funds and other institutional investors, real estate developers, not - for - profit corporations and other domestic and foreign owners of real estate in the United States.

(8) of 2007 On the Matter of Escrow Accounts for Real Estate Development (the Escrow Law) was issued to regulate developers and safeguard purchasers» money in respect of off - plan property purchases in Dubai.

Obtained a defense verdict and a positive money judgment for real estate developers accused of fraud in connection with the sale of a commercial building