Sentences with phrase «money group donors»

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A group of former wrestlers - turned financial gurus who have worked at some of America's top financial firms have pooled their own money with charitable donors» to grant larger cash prizes to wrestlers who win Olympic medals, The New York Times reports.

One of the most talked - about «dark money» groups of the election released its tax returns yesterday, showing it raised almost $ 77 million from fewer than 100 donors over 19 months.

Meanwhile, a small group of billionaire GOP donors reportedly asked a Trump associate how much money Trump would need to be paid to abandon the race.

Now, with money from corporate donors, her group is able to bring that fresh produce directly to the neighborhoods and distribute it right from refrigerated trucks.

Worse still, they're bankrolled by dark money — we've exposed the shady group behind their lavish pro-Brexit campaigning, but they're still refusing to name their secret donors.

Last week, I reported on an obscure yet powerful group called Donors Trust, a dark - money ATM funding the conservative movement with hundreds of millions of dollars in mostly anonymous money.

The term «dark money» is often applied to this category of political spender because these groups do not have to disclose the sources of their funding — though a minority do disclose some or all of their donors, by choice or in response to specific circumstances.

Donors can give and raise money from friends for a particular person, group of individuals or victims of some injustice.

Also note: because of the Republican donors» delay in getting into the action this year, their advertising money won't go as far, since I.E. groups buying ads late in the cycle are paying premium prices.

His large - scale Facebook outreach reached voters in groups large and small in critical areas of the country, and the bulk of the campaign's late funding came through grassroots donors identified and recruited via Facebook ads (even if they often gave the money in response to a subsequent email appeal).

Also, as online donations bring a larger group of small donors into the process, they're going to demand that their money be well spent if campaigns want more of it.

Like a Super PAC, a 501 (c)(4) can raise unlimited money, but it does not have to disclose its donors, which, unsurprisingly, has resulted in much greater amounts of corporate funds being funneled to these groups first, then to Super PACs.

Online demand (Facebook groups and more) helped create the initial buzz around his candidacy even before he declared, and his success at getting money out of small online donors made the political establishment take him seriously.

The measure is intended to reduce the flow of anonymous contributions, or «dark money,» flowing from donors through 501c (4) charitable groups in support of political campaigns.

The mayor told WNYC's Brian Lehrer on Friday that his 2017 re-election campaign will rely on small amounts of money from a large group of donors, rather than wealthy individuals who can donate the maximum amount.

This landlord group gave to a few Democrats, but has remained one of the few real estate donors that has not shifted its money to the party with stronger positions in favor of issues such as rent control.

The projection, made in a document distributed by RNC officials at the group's summer meeting in Kansas City, comes as the committee is being forced to compete for donor dollars with a growing number of independent expenditure groups which are spending money to help defeat Democrats in November.

NYPIRG and other reform groups say larger, more systematic issues need to be addressed, like closing a loophole that permits donors to skirt contribution limits by bundling money in limited liability corporations, or LLC's.

Grisanti took money from donors and groups who oppose same sex marriage and then flipped.

A multistate civil lawsuit filed in May against a group of family members who claimed to raise money for cancer victims has been settled, resulting in the closing of two charities that allegedly bilked donors for some $ 75 million, AG Eric Schneiderman said.

«What was happening all around the country was these dark - money groups whose donors are hidden started to spend money on state legislative races,» Bloss said.

«Lending money to your own campaign lets you create a war chest that might or might not scare off potential opponents without having to raise the money from donors,» said Michael Malbin, executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington.

Where the rescue money came from is unclear — but as the Electoral Commission probes the sources of the Leave donor's campaign contributions, a group of accountants who specialise in offshore «wealth preservation» may hold the key.

The ballot question, known as Question 2, was largely run by Kittredge and cost the group $ 20 million in money from private donors.

These span his ties to the anti-horse carriage group New Yorkers for Clean Livable and Safe Streets, his 2014 efforts to funnel money to unsuccessful upstate candidates for the State Senate and a sprawling bribery scandal involving two Campaign for One New York donors who regaled top NYPD officials with gifts, trips and even prostitutes.

Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled Friday he's going to significantly shift his fundraising strategy as he readies his 2017 re-election campaign, focusing on raising small amounts of money from a wide group of donors rather than relying heavily on wealthy donors who can pay the maximum amount to his campaign.

Her Clinton flip - flop follows other hypocritical positions such as taking contributions from a known «dark money» group — whose donors are anonymous — and soliciting money from Super PAC mega-donors such as billionaire George Soros.

«The more we learn about Tory funding, the more questions arise.Why are donors, such as Anthony Bamford, donating money through this front group rather than in their own name?»

Donors can give as much money as they want to a group supporting Republican NYC mayoral nominee Joe Lhota, following a ruling by a federal appeals court that could pave the way for increased outside spending in New York elections.

Large donors have fueled Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign warchest, with 81 percent of his money coming from people who gave him $ 10,000 or more, a report by the New York Public Interest Research Group said today.

In 2011, the governor set up an entity called the Committee to Save New York, a tax - exempt, 501 (c) 4 non-profit group that could raise unlimited amounts of money without disclosing its donors.

And it's not clear if gay donors and major national groups like the Gill Action Fund will so focus their attention and money as aggressively in New York after their money yielded a one - sided defeat.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today defended himself from good government group charges that two nonprofits collecting money to promote his agenda had created «a shadow government» and «perpetual campaign» — arguing that both organizations fully disclosed their donors and were promoting worthy liberal causes.

Asked whether the group should voluntarily disclose where its money comes from, Mr. Cuomo responded by noting that an overhaul of the state ethics law for which he won passage last year will require the disclosure of donors in the future.

That law also required public disclosure of the amount of money — within a narrow category — that officials receive from outside employment and investments, and mandated that some lobbying groups list the donors that fuel their advocacy campaigns.

Those straw donors allegedly gave money in groups to Liu's campaign and were reimbursed at a later date by the real donors.

We've seen, in this very state, vast amounts of money spent by similar groups, no effort to figure out who those donors are.»

However, under pressure from activists after openDemocracy revealed how Brexit campaigners were funnelling dark money through Northern Ireland to fund «Take Back Control» adverts, the Democratic Unionist Party was forced last night to reveal its major donor to be a group calling itself the Constitutional Research Council.

Such organizations have earned the moniker «dark money» groups because they can typically shield the names of donors from the public.

We exposed the shadowy links of the donor group that gave DUP that «dark money» during the Brexit campaign.

«One, is the gerrymandering that occurs allowing lawmakers to draw their own district lines... [two is] a disgraceful campaign finance system that allows them to hit up special interests for ridiculous amounts of money,» said Blair Horner, executive director at the New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to a lack of «pay - to - play» restrictions on campaign donors with government business.

«We need to bolster our money laundering laws, move aggressively against straw donors and unmask the identity of those groups or individuals who want to operate in the shadows.

The group, which could accept unlimited contributions because of its status, allegedly funneled money from wealthy donors into de Blasio's campaign coffers — avoiding campaign finance restrictions.

Soon has received more than $ 100,000 from an Alexandria - based group called Donor's Trust, which has been funneling money from anonymous donors to a number of groups and initiatives championed by political conservatives.

Both organizations are conservative dark money funnels that advertise their ability to transfer huge sums to conservative groups without donor disclosure.

Walmart's Walton family and many wealthy donors use a front - group called American Federation for Children to funnel money into the Hoosiers for Economic Growth PAC (see its new name below), which, in turn, funds the politicians who support school privatization.

That an NEA group would try to block rules designed to combat the hiding of donors until after the election isn't terribly surprising: The national union's Executive Director was recently appointed Chairman of the left - wing money clearinghouse Democracy Alliance's board.

Civil rights group called on Tuck to renounce the money and denounce its donor, Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson.

An incredible 95 percent of the money that flowed into the Massachusetts charter school campaign came from out - of - state donors, with 84 percent of the total funds coming from New York based Families for Excellent Schools, a dark money charter school group that advocates in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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