Sentences with phrase «payments as vice chairmen»

Payroll records revealed that eight senators — including three members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, who collaborate with Republicans to run the Senate — have received tens of thousands of dollars in stipend payments as vice chairmen of committees during the last three years, even though the money is earmarked for the committee chairmen.

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To facilitate payments, false statements identifying the eight senators as committee chairmen were sent by Senate staff to the state comptroller's office, when in fact each served as vice chairman, a position that does not carry any pay or specific duties.

Funneling the payments to vice chairmen is not explicitly permitted by law, though Senate leadership and lawyers have tried to prove that there is a legal and constitutional basis for such stipends, commonly known as «lulus.»