Sentences with phrase «of sweetheart deals»

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.

Warren wrote, «Navient should be focused on and investing in improving its abysmal student loan servicing operations, not lobbying Congress and the administration in search of sweetheart deals.»

The Host Committee includes some of the area's corporate giants, including the CEO of USBank, a St. Paul - based megabank that avoided paying $ 10 million in taxes to the state last year because of sweetheart deals and tax cuts.

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.

B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.

It also looked increasingly to outsiders that even though no one involved from the library's side did anything illegal, or made any money under the table, that there was more than a whiff of sweetheart dealing in the way that the properties were going to be, or in the case of the Donnell Library actually were, disposed of.

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The U.S. government added Gertler and affiliated companies to its Specially Designated Nationals list in December last year, accusing him of using his friendship with Congo President Joseph Kabila to secure sweetheart mining deals.

The investments could be unrelated — or it could be that some of the push back from critics who worry that GE is getting a sweetheart deal from the state and city, is having an impact.

Everyone loves a deal, and when there is so much talk about a weak economy, a sweetheart of an offer can help turn undecided clients into buyers.

Glencore's legal row revolves around its former partnership with Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire accused by Washington of using his friendship with Congolese President Joseph Kabila to secure sweetheart mining deals.

Franken also took on Representative Tom Price, Trump's nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.

The premier made the pact with Alcan to disregard the deal the original contract and legislation and permit, indeed partnered with Alcan to give Alcan a sweetheart deal to make hundreds of million dollars making electricity for sale instead of expanding aluminum production as the deal called for.

When royalty revenues weren't enough to cover the cost of public services the government defaulted to cutting services rather than cutting waste, including patronage appointments to 320 agencies, boards and commissions or sweetheart deals with their friends (the Holy Cross Hospital springs to mind).

It's also still running its nationwide search for a second headquarters that has mostly entailed seeing which city governments are willing to debase themselves the most in the form of jaw - dropping sweetheart tax deals.

... As Finance Minister's 9th June letter to ADB MD spells out the supply contract he denies Chief Executive Officer of McDan Shipping Company, Mr. Daniel McKorley, has entangled himself in his own web of lies in an attempt to deny a sweetheart deal that his company secured from government.

The ad calls Carl Paladino «a landlord and developer» who traded $ 452,000 worth of campaign contributions for sweetheart inside deals in the form of a $ 1.4 million Empire Zone tax break for which he created only one job.

For example, in the early 1990s, Lloyd Williams, a political and business associate of Inez Dickens and her father dating back at least to the 1970s, and head of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and its development arm the Greater Harlem Housing Development Corporation, presided over a disastrous sweetheart real - estate deal with the City that wound up costing the taxpayers almost $ 4 million.

Second, Curran has followed through on taking the county executive's name off signs and rescinding the sweetheart patronage deals the outgoing administration of Edward Mangano had tried to put in place.

The report suggests that Germany has been enjoying a sweetheart deal with Gazprom, gaining a competitive advantage in gas costs at the expense of fellow EU economies and leaving front line states at the mercy of Moscow's strong - arm tactics.

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.»

The rest of UK manufacturing would be battering on the door of the business department to be told its contents for fear they were missing out on 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.»

The obscure Brooklyn company at the center of the nursing home scandal already owed millions of dollars in unpaid taxes, and its principals were accused of «secretly scheming» against a former business partner, long before the city signed off on a sweetheart deal that netted the firm a $ 72 million profit, records show.

A sweetheart deal, Dextro Auto gets to be in charge of supplying spare parts and after sales services for the cars at extra cost after the importation, in spite of the fact that Ghana has a popular spare parts hub at Abossey Okai.

But by 2007, that sweetheart deal had turned ashen, replicating Mimiko's umpteenth betrayal of former collaborators for personal gains.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer won't have to testify at a public trial against the reputed high - end escort he has accused of extorting him — after she took a sweetheart plea deal today.

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.

«This left the town on the hook for an unknown financial disaster... this contract was a sweetheart deal and a giveaway to the Lizzas and a crime against the people of Oyster Bay,» Singas said.

Cuomo then gave Musk the sweetheart deal of all time.

The complaint said Rose's campaign got sweetheart deals on services that included get - out - the vote operations, voter lists and the services of campaign workers.

The governor accuses the mayor of concocting a «sweetheart deal» for real - estate developers.

Morales had been cooperating with investigators on two matters: the mysterious deed change that allowed the sale of a Lower East Side nursing home to developers, who netted a $ 72 million profit, and strong - arm efforts to cut Singh a sweetheart deal.

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.

I should've tried some of their other fits like the Sweetheart or the Flirt but they were all made of the same denim which was already a deal breaker.

Scott has a few exes of his own to deal with too, and all the exes, both his and hers, do smart turns, in part because of the many smart actors you'll remember from other projects that drop by: Alison Pill, of «Milk» and «In Treatment,» as a former sweetheart working through her issues as Sex Bob - Omb's drummer and «Fantastic Four's» Chris Evans as skateboard superstar Ramona - ex, among others.

April 11, 2017 • Investigators in Washington seeking links between Americans and Russia's election - meddling are searching for evidence of loans or sweetheart deals used to gain access or control over targets.

When a valuable baseball card is thrown into the mix, these two men, along with a motley group of hometown friends — including Cooper's high school sweetheart, played by Virginia Madsen — head to a memorabilia expo to make the deal of the century.

Sweetheart Deal is an intimate look inside their world, a harrowing portrait of life without a safety net.

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.

Now we're getting them, and now we know: The contract is a sweetheart deal for the United Federation of Teachers.

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..

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

«Professor Spence said: «The issue of whether Amazon's deal with Luxembourg was a «sweetheart» one constituting state aid seems to deflect attention from the main issue here: namely, that Luxembourg has long operated as a de facto tax haven within the internal market, effectively depriving other EU governments, and the EU in general, of significant tax revenues.

In the 1990s the «Big and Nasty» chains like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books - a-Million — with their sweetheart deals with the Big 6 Publishers — put 1000s of indie bookstores out of business.

When Locke struck a sweetheart distribution deal with Simon and Schuster, his books appeared in bookstores, but few owners and shoppers knew who he was; as a result, his books languished in the lower rent area on shelves at the back of stores.

Jim B. needs to step up his game instead of crying over a sweetheart deal for Apple shareholders.

Linda is also the author of Eternally 21, Black Thursday, and Sweetheart Deal, the first three titles in the Mrs. Frugalicious mystery series.

From authors who only ask for a very limited level of editing or who have a sweetheart deal going.

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.

The national chains are in bed enjoying sweetheart deals for deeply discounted bestsellers from major houses, whose intent of the super-discounts and making their famous authors available for book signings were clearly to out - price and upstage those nearby indies.