Sentences with phrase «of taxpayer cash»

Skelos, on the other hand, has floated a figure closer to $ 200 million annually, and insists this is not a smart use of taxpayer cash.

The NYT reported that Silver had used an undisclosed amount of taxpayer cash to settle a claim made against Lopez before these two staffers» complaints were referred to the ethics committee.

Over the past week, things have gone downhill quickly for both Lopez, who announced he won't be seeking re-election as Brooklyn Democratic chairman, but has refused to heed calls to resign his Assembly seat; and Silver, who was revealed to have negotiated a secret settlement of $ 103,000 worth of taxpayer cash with two women whose harassment claims against Lopez pre-dated those sent to the ethics committee.

And that is not to count the vast waves of taxpayer cash directed towards it or the trauma of the people who are taken away in front of their family or co-workers and locked up, with no idea of when they will be released.

A Brooklyn charity that got member items from Sen. Kevin Parker spent most of the taxpayer cash to hire the brother of his chief of staff.

The European Research Group is a ruthlessly organised faction within the Conservative party, funded by a mix of taxpayer cash and dark money.

Labour have union funded by a system of taxpayer cash disguised as the modernisation fund.

Even under the legislature's porous ethics rules, this handover of taxpayer cash to an organization where he had a financial interest was a violation.

Once again, Mayor Bill de Blasio is claiming the moral high ground to justify a decision that places a huge sum of taxpayer cash in his pockets.

When the courts declared state education systems inadequate, the only relief they provided was a pile of taxpayer cash — to be spent by the same bureaucracy that was said to be inefficient and inadequate.

And while there's been some grousing about the use of taxpayer cash to fund the trip, even staunch Trudeau opponents have to admit that paying attention to what people want is, in fact, the job of a leader.

Though not an actual government agency, ESD has the power to dispense massive amounts of taxpayer cash.

SUNY used $ 660,500 of taxpayer cash to make a former CEO of Upstate University Hospital effectively «disappear.»

In September openDemocracy also revealed that the ERG's work is funded by at least # 250,000 of taxpayer cash, as many of its MP members siphon off funds from their research budget to pay for a pooled ERG staff member.

San Jose - based SunPower Corp. will slash 25 percent of its total workforce as one of the prime beneficiaries of President Barack Obama blowing $ 200 billion of taxpayer cash to increase renewable energy by 1 percent of total energy consumption.