Sentences with phrase «over her outside income»

Facing a nagging corruption probe, and looking for a leg up in budget negotiations, the embattled former Senate majority leader, Dean Skelos, floated the idea of raising a stink over the outside income of Democrat Cuomo's live - in girlfriend, Sandra Lee, and using it as leverage, transcripts of wire - tapped conversations between Skelos and his son Adam reveal.
AMSTERDAM — Beatrix Ruf, the director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the city's leading institution for contemporary art and design, resigned on Tuesday amid controversy over her outside income and her handling of private collectors.

Not exact matches

While a superstar like LeBron James will play in the league for over a decade and earn a great deal of money from personal appearances and endorsement deals, the median NBA player has a career of only three to four years, and generates a relatively modest amount of outside income.
While that might not seem like a lot, if you sell enough over the course of the year, you can get a pretty healthy passive income without actually having to stand outside the bookstore and hawk your own book.
As he raised concerns over the sweeping changes to state government through a pair of constitutional amendments proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement pointed to the relative short window of time debate would be held over term limits and creating a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.
- Discussions continue over a legislative pay raise, as well as term limits and a ban on outside income.
The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.
The outside income issue came up during a 2010 show, recorded during negotiations over an ethics bill with then - Governor David Paterson.
The governor, over the past few days, has said lawmakers have not agreed to greater disclosure of outside incomes and campaign finance reform — items that Cuomo has tried, unsuccessfully, to get approved for at least two years.
«Additionally, this report shows that more than 7 in 10 Medicaid recipients have some form of outside income, usually a low - paying or minimum - wage job that still isn't enough to lift them over the poverty threshold.
Only 10 Assemblymembers in a body of 150 made over $ 100,000 in outside income and only 7 of 63 Senators.
But a POLITICO New York survey of members conducted over the last several weeks showed the issue of outside income was far from black and white.
Antonacci says no one has bothered him about this outside income in the ten years he's been comptroller, until he sued the county over elected officials pay raises two years ago.
As the negotiations over the state budget appear to be winding down, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's counsel's office met privately on Friday afternoon with several good - government advocates to discuss new outside income disclosure requirements under consideration.
Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino on Tuesday released his 2013 tax returns, while his campaign also revealed the Westchester County executive had received more than $ 100,000 in outside income over the last several years from a Connecticut - based media firm.
The governor, over the past few days, have said lawmakers have not agreed to greater disclosure of outside incomes and campaign finance reform, items that Cuomo has tried, unsuccessfully, to get approved for at least 2 years.
Governor Cuomo is seeking complete disclosure of outside income from lawmakers, and says he'll hold up the budget over it.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.
Like that long - ago Congress, New York State has begun a debate over the propriety of lawmakers generating income from activities outside their legislative salaries.
Former Speaker Silver and former Senate Leader Dean Skelos both face prison terms over the abuse of their outside incomes.
Several of his ethics reform proposals were approved in the most recent state budget, including forcing legislators to reveal all outside sources of income over $ 1,000 and the loss of pension benefits for elected officials convicted of corruption.
Over in the Assembly, longtime Speaker Sheldon Silver faces a federal probe into his outside income from a small law firm.
The Council's pay raise package may face a floor fight today over a push to loosen its prohibition on outside income.
Over 100 years ago, when legislators only had to go to The State Capital a few times a year, the job made sense as part - time, thus, allowing other or outside income.
The Do - over could include issues like limiting or banning outside income income for lawmakers, or closing campaign financing loopholes.
After two months of debate over new requirements governing elected officials» disclosure of their outside income, the budget bill introduced today will require lawmakers serving in occupations such as law or consulting to identify some of their clients, but only those whom they take on new business for after Dec. 31, 2015.
Azzopardi noted the while Cuomo hasn't gotten many of his highest - ticket reform items passed, he has indeed succeeded over the years in items like the disclosure of outside income for legislators and new reporting requirements for lobbying clients.
Orange County Democrats fired a third salvo at state Sen. Bill Larkin on Monday over the question of banning the outside income some state lawmakers earn in the private sector — an issue likely to be taken up in the coming legislative session after the recent corruption convictions of former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.
A stinging 35 - page federal complaint said Silver pocketed the loot over more than a decade and that his claims that he had legitimate outside income from personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg was «materially false and misleading.»
«I think what we care about and what we realize is that members over the years have gotten into difficulty with outside income.
The Legislature over the years has been rocked by scandals involving lawmakers who also received income from outside employment.
«Regardless of whether or not Duffy violated state law by interviewing for a job with a private lobbying entity — he'll recuse himself from any future matters involving economic development in his home region — he has committed a mortal political sin: He created an ethics dilemma for a governor currently hammering the state Legislature over its own ethical record, including its lack of transparency on sources of outside income,» Casey Seiler writes in his column, which includes speculative odds on Duffy's successors.
However, Silver is reported by several media outlets to be under federal investigation over his reporting of outside income.
The legislature also approved a measure requiring lawmakers who earn over $ 5,000 per year in outside income to seek a ruling from the independent Legislative Ethics Commission to clear them of possible conflicts of interest.
It was the only outside income over $ 1,000 reported by mother and daughter in their 2012 and 2013 financial disclosure forms.
Blake's time in the Assembly has coincided with debates in the Legislature over whether or not ethics rules should be changed to bar lawmakers from earning outside income.
Democratic state Senate candidate Sara Niccoli wasting little time on Tuesday taking Republican incumbent George Amedore to task over his opposition to banning outside income in the Legislature.
David Smith - The former President of Upstate Medical University, who also acquired 400 units in two low - income housing projects in Presidential Plaza for Upstate students and doctors, was forced to resigned in 2013 for padding his over $ 600,000 state salary with $ 350,000 from outside medical companies without permission of the state.
Cuomo is seeking complete disclosure of outside income from lawmakers, and says he'll hold up the budget over it.
They cheered his demand for ethics reform, including the revelation of outside income and its sources, a concept killed over and again by legislative bosses, notably including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
When the pressures of having no income pile up and the stream of judgement from his wealthy father - in - law roll over him, he finds himself taking his gun out of his safe and wandering out into the desert outside his Albuquerque suburban neighborhood to potentially do something drastic.
STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.
Outside of the tech industry, he has over 400 skydives, is a partner and investor in Aston Martin Racing North America and sits on the board for Playworks, a national nonprofit that supports learning and physical health by providing safe and inclusive play to low - income students in urban schools.
That measure, called Academic Growth Over Time, uses a mathematical formula to estimate how much a teacher helps students» performance, based on state test scores and controlling for such outside factors as income and race.
Those who read this blog regularly or listen to my podcast will know how bullish I am on global sales and how I fully expect to see the majority of my income coming from outside the US over the next few years, especially as streaming internet speeds spread to the rest of the world.
[36] Outside the context of s. 17, in rarer cases, courts have upheld the use of averaging of income over a period of longer than three years.
It simply slips on over the outside of the handset and can be used to quickly check the time or weather — or indeed incoming call notifications — without needing to open the cover, as it supports HTC's double - tap gesture.
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