Sentences with phrase «of slush fund»

That provided a kind of slush fund for investing abroad.

As for KDP Select, I never enrolled in that program because about 90 % of the authors participating never got any of the slush fund, and gave up after 90 days trying to sell their ebooks to Amazon Prime customers.

When Cuomo took over, the agency was known as something of a slush fund for shady slumlords and real estate developers.

He also believes that «we have probably not heard the last of the slush fund scandal... we need to have accountability on whether the community groups that get City funding actually do what they say they were going to do with the money.

Now it turns out that there was something of a slush fund, in the form of Cohen's retainer.

Embattled Queens state Sen. James Sanders is abandoning his bid to unseat Rep. Gregory Meeks, and he's blaming the congressman, saying Meeks is behind leaks regarding FBI probes into his use of slush funds and alleged solicitation of a $ 250,000 bribe from a non-profit.

US Attorney Preet Bharara told state municipal leaders at a Manhattan conference last week to be «wary of slush funds.»

«Be wary of slush funds,» US Attorney Preet Bharara last week warned officials from across New York.

Be wary of slush funds for council members,» Bharara told the Association of Towns of the State of New York at the Marriott Marquis in Midtown.

It is stuffed full of billions of dollars of slush funds that the governor and legislative leaders can spend on just about anything, including giving hundreds of millions in tax dollar subsidies to companies and hospitals that make big campaign contributions,» said John Kaehny, director of the group Reinvent Albany.

Not exact matches

The days of free - flowing slush funds, though, are over.

The Conservatives characterized Martin's contingencies as little more than slush funds, a smear that stuck because of the white lies at the heart of the budget.

Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

If you multiply $ 35,000 times 12 months you arrive at a $ 420,000 slush fund that Giuliani suggests was used to handle «things of a personal nature that Michael took care of....»

According to Giuliani, the «fund of money» was Trump's regular retainer to Cohen, which seems to have been what amounts to a slush fund for Cohen to deal with Trump's various problems.

In addition, for a government that loves corporate welfare even more than past governments, Ottawa announced female - specific funding for entrepreneurs through its existing alphabet potpourri of regional slush fund agencies.

Whether or not they paid for this junket, if they are thinking of footing the bill for others in the future, even despots with unlimited slush funds might ask whether the NCC today has any influence worth buying.

German news magazine Der Spiegel have today alleged that the committee in charge of organising the German bid for the 2006 World Cup, a bid that was eventually successful, set up a multi-million dollar slush fund with the express purpose of purchasing votes.

Union leaders make bucketloads of money, kickbacks from everybody and slush funds for anything that crosses their mind.

Yet in almost every popular Internet rumor about a recruit's family being paid off, there's some mention of a bank account or a slush fund that boosters pay into and athletes take out of.

«A gentleman never competes for money, directly or indirectly» he intoned in» Walter Camp's Book of College Sports,» all the while controlling a reputed $ 100,000 (about $ 2.5 million in today's dollars) slush fund for athletic «tutoring.»

Past and present German football officials may be taking advantage of the 2006 slush fund speculation to settle old scores.

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

-LRB-... The DN calls on de Blasio to use his mayoral powers to abolish the Council practice of dividing up some $ 400 million annually in so - called member items...) ************* Don't see de Blasio using up political chips to try to end the member - item slush fund.

is he proposing to eliminate the use of campaign money as slush funds?

«The attempt to link the chairman's name to the $ 115 million Slush Fund with Fidelity Bank is not only mischievous but disingenuous handiwork of adversaries who will stop at nothing to concoct stories no matter how ridiculous about our chairman.

He allegedly took cash from a state slush fund and gave it to a doctor, who referred asbestos cases to a law firm that illegally split its share of medical settlements with Silver.

The State and Municipal Facilities Aid slush fund apparently isn't subject to the added disclosure and accountability guidelines applied to standard pork barrel «member items» at the recommendation of then - Attorney General Cuomo in 2008.

In March, legislators bristled when Cuomo tried to use $ 100 million of their «capital projects» slush fund for the councils, but the governor's aides eventually found $ 100 million by cancelling plans to build a state data center and re-obligated another $ 30 million in an older gubernatorial «capital projects» pork fund.

Unless these measures are part of a more comprehensive plan to eliminate party slush funds and slash six figure contributions, we'll be right back to where we started.

Mayor Bloomberg's documented slush fund, which spread millions of public dollars to favored groups and organizations with no oversight, set the tone for the culture of corruption and payoffs that dominate Council politics.

Last week we were treated to stories of how the billionaire Mayor had authorized hundreds of thousands of dollars from his private slush fund to community groups, without Councilmanic authorization, which he then tried to fake after the fact.

These slush funds were the subject of a 2004 investigation by The Post-Standard, and tough times have not killed the practice.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed to redirect $ 340 million of unspent slush funds.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has never stopped congratulating her self for adding «transparency» to the council's pork - distribution process in the wake of recent slush - fund scandals.

E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center, called the spending «pork» from a «slush fund» and questioned why state taxpayers are footing the bill for things «local government ought to be doing.»

The slush fund scandal indicates to Mr. Lander that «we don't have a vital local democracy,» and sees the scandal as a function of a system whereby the City Council focuses a great deal of energy and attention to the 1 % of the City budget that is allocated to Member items.

The Donna Reid Fund had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary funding, including money from Christine Quinn's infamous slush fFund had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary funding, including money from Christine Quinn's infamous slush fundfund.

That's because previous governors and legislators have built up $ 7 billion in slush funds for projects of their choice.

Some of the charges directly stem from the City Council's slush fund scandal — which brought down former Councilmember Miguel Martinez last year.

«Instead of getting his house in order, Gov. Cuomo wants taxpayers to foot the bill to protect his slush funds and pet projects.»

It accused his slush funds of using «dark money» that obscures «who has influence and access to the policymaking process.»

Not to discount the value of that $ 350,000 union slush fund spiff, which Bharara will figure out anyway, de Blasio's wholly undemanding relationship with the UFT amounts to a profound betrayal of his responsibility to the city's 1.1 million public - school children.

Thomas Accused of Stealing Campaign Funds, Establishing a Slush Fund for Personal Use from His Inaugural Fund, and Falsely Filing Disclosure Reports with the State Board of Elections and Mount Vernon Board of Ethics MT. VERNON — Attorney General Eric -LSB-...]

Sheldon Silver funneled $ 500,000 in state slush funds to a leading Manhattan oncologist in exchange for a steady stream of asbestos - related cancer cases, which he then fed to a personal - injury law firm that paid him more than $ 3 million in fees for the referrals, federal prosecutors charged Thursday.

The tax brings in so much money every year that millions of dollars collected by way of the tax were used as a virtual slush fund by the leaders of the Assembly and State Senate.

The report notes that one of these board members, Rob Speyer of Tishman Speyer, gave the maximum contribution to the Cuomo campaign during the 2010 cycle, $ 55,900, before incorporating what the New York Times has called the Governor's «secret slush fund» and pledging $ 1 million to the effort.

E.J. McMahon of the watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy wrote that the new budget includes nearly $ 500 million in «the biggest, murkiest, pork - barrel slush fund in Albany — and perhaps any state capital — has ever seen.»

State lawmakers have a slush fund that is worth about $ 2 billion and it is expanding, much to the dismay of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

«Nevertheless, our members believe that unless we repeal Wilson Pakula, eliminate party slush funds, and prohibit multi-million dollar transfers from party committees to individual candidates, then we will fail to address the fundamental problems of our current campaign finance system.