Sentences with phrase «new sweetheart deal»

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As Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz, points out in aJournal News op - ed; Forty - nine out of 63 New York State Senators received most of their campaign contributions from corporations or big money donors.Millions are wasted and misdirected each year because of sweetheart deals for the special interests.

Stacey Cumberbatch, the former commissioner of the agency dealing with Singh, told the New York Times, through her lawyer, that she was under tremendous pressure to give the mayor's donor a «sweetheart deal.»

«We know that it'll only cost $ 2 per New Yorker, and that's a small price compared to the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that are handed out every year in sweetheart deals for CEO campaign contributors.»

Donohue also pointed out that it is outrageous that the budget includes a sweetheart deal to NBC to lure the Tonight show back to New York and a luxury suite for Cuomo administration use as part of the taxpayer financed renovation of the Buffalo Bills» stadium — all at the same time he leaves an essential hospital, like Downstate Medical Center at significant risk of closure and struggling localities without relief.

The hits kept coming Thursday for embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt after the agency's top ethics lawyer said he was misled about Pruitt's sweetheart condo deal, a new report said...

In one such scheme, Boyland Jr. said he would set up a sweetheart real estate deal worth millions of dollars in exchange for $ 250,000 paid through a fake consulting job, according to the New York Times.

Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her long - time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who decamp for New York when he lands a deal with a major label.

Last year, the Mayor agreed to a new contract with the United Federation of Teachers — a sweetheart deal for the union that has repeatedly and negatively influenced education policy thereafter.

In this case, the New Haven Board of Education is appointed by Mayor Toni Harp — who, thanks to an earlier sweetheart deal — happens to sit on the Achievement First Inc..

In recent days — many times when suffering outright nastiness from authors who don't like the new per - page pay structure or his support of it — he has been at pains to clarify that he does not have a «sweetheart» deal with Amazon.

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Google's carrier project is hitting off Valentine's Day with a couple of sweetheart deals for those inclined to getting a new phone and new service this year.