Sentences with phrase «political favors»

All I hear is noise and all I see are meaningless endorsements in exchange for political favors.

Silver has continued to maintain his innocence — his lawyers argued that no witness ever said there was an explicit agreement trading political favors for money.

Prosecutors allege that Skelos did political favors for AbTech Industries, an Arizona environmental company, and Glenwood Management, a large New York developer, in exchange for payments to himself and his son.

Although cap - and - trade has fallen dramatically in political favor in Washington as the U.S. answer to climate change, this approach to reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is by no means «dead.»

Judicial candidates should be chosen based on their strong qualifications, humane values, and judicial temperament, rather than traded as political favors among the elected officials of Brooklyn.

During the trial, prosecutors argued that the Skeloses pressured three companies — a developer, an environmental technology company, and a malpractice insurer — into giving Adam hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments and benefits in return for political favors from Dean.

It's appalling that the governor is considering making my home of thirty years a sacrifice zone to curry political favor with the fossil fuel industry for his presidential ambitions, while disingenuously saying he is following science and home rule.

Both Silver and Skelos are accused of misusing their elected positions to earn millions of dollars in income from their other jobs, where they granted political favors to their outside employers.

In early 2013, Stevenson was accused of taking $ 22,000 in bribes in return for helping four senior care center developers with political favors.

In a second trial, Bruno was found not guilty in May 2014 of providing political favors to his private consulting clients.

Hijacking jobs and econ omic growth to win political favor from special groups and ad vance an agenda that has been rejected by voters in 32 states..

The first 400 years or so of Christianity has Christians historically marked as a genuine brotherhood of believers who cared for one another... it is after this point in time, once Christianity gained political favor, that all sorts of ridiculous ideas get incorporated into the faith.

The case is not Benenson Strategy Group paying money to the DNC for getting political favors but the DNC paying money to the Benenson Strategy Group.

Trust me, the politicians keep track of who they owe political favors to and legislate in their favor.

William ends up in the middle of the «Warring States» where he becomes embroiled in the war - torn politics of the era and finds himself caught up in the fight in order to secure political favors and alliances.

«Today's proceedings expose a corrupt, multiyear scheme to use political favors to buy off a sitting state judge.

While it maybe be true that large pools of institutional money are better at buying political favors, influencing scientific research, and swaying foreign governments, it has always been known and is frequently demonstrated that individuals always do better at loving and caring for other individuals, tend to be wiser stewards of money, and view their giving and service toward others as a means of actually helping them, rather than a means to gain political power or popular prestige.

How could Party leaders be consistent with the values (fiscal restraint, social conservatism — e.g., high moral code) they have professed for 30 years and nominate someone with zero performance in reducing expenditures even on a local level, someone tainted by giving and receiving political favors as a Commissioner on the Port Authority, and someone linked for 20 years by business and marriage to mobster activities?

Phil Ramos (D - Brentwood) called the post «a cheap Trump - like attempt to curry political favor appealing to some people's worse instincts.»

«I donate to everybody that looks like they could win because I need political favors,» the attorney said on condition of anonymity.

Our problem in New York State is the exchange of huge political contributions in exchange for huge political favors and state contracts.

McDonnell was accused of swapping political favors for lavish gifts.

In exchange, Menendez helped Melgen with visa applications for his foreign - born lovers, among other political favors, the Justice Department contends.

McDonnell had been convicted on corruption charges for secretly accepting more than $ 175,000 in gifts and loans from a local businessman who was trying to garner political favors.

The once - powerful Democrat was indicted two weeks ago on charges that he received $ 4 million in kickbacks from law firms for doing political favors since 2002, disguising the income as legitimate income.

It focused on allegations that Mr. Hevesi's friends, family and associates sold access to the state's $ 125 billion pension fund, one of the world's largest, to reward allies, pay back political favors and reap millions of dollars for themselves.»

Despite whatever political favors Cuomo might still owe Grisanti, the DEC float was quickly shot down by an agency spokesperson, who said Martens had no plan to give up his job.

Silver, accused of exploiting his huge influence to reap $ 4 million in kickbacks from law firms for doing political favors instead of legal work, quit as speaker, a post he'd held for 21 years, after his January arrest.

having said that, i am constantly amazed that when it comes to the bronx, political speculation continues to be about who likes who, who will support who, and who owes who political favors and absolutely nothing about what any of our elected officials actually do or do not do.

«The immigration laws of the United States should not be used to buy and sell political favors,» Long said.

I don't owe anyone political favors.

In their trials over the past months, both former Senate majority leader Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Silver gave political favors to Glenwood in exchange for contributions and no - show jobs.

Eldridge would be smart to stockpile more of that kind of credit in the local political favor bank.

Avella testified he didn't know about the alleged bribery scheme, in which Dean Skelos promised political favors to two companies if they paid his son hundreds of thousands of dollars for no - show work.

Bharara and his investigators have been diligently connecting the dots between real - estate cash and alleged political favors.

In what has become an all to familiar story, the FBI made arrests early this morning of state officials, local politicians and local party bosses caught in a bribery scheme involving political favors

With Napoleon's demise, Fourier struggled to regain political favor and acceptance in the academic world, and eventually succeeded, but his political and diplomatic embroilments consumed much of his time when he should have been doing math.

Potential buyers should be aware that Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals was involved in a massive scandal in 2014 involving their CEO attempting to bribe politicians in exchange for political favors regarding their products.

The workshop comes in the wake of allegations by an anonymous group and current district administrator Rocky Hanna who allege many of the contracts were awarded based on political favors.

Both Silver and Skelos are accused of misusing their elected positions to earn millions of dollars in income from their other jobs — where they granted political favors to their outside employers.

While facing multiple pay - to - play probes over whether he provided political favors to big donors, de Blasio sent out a fundraising solicitation claiming he really wants donations from regular New Yorkers.

Silver, a disgraced longtime New York politician, is fighting to win bail while he appeals a federal jury's guilty verdict on a host of charges related to two bribery schemes in which prosecutors said he received millions in kickbacks by trading political favors for money.

[56] Paladino would have first targeted what he considered to be patronage jobs for elimination; i.e., those who, according to him, received their jobs as political favors and through family connections.

The Paterson administration's approval to block potentially revealing information from reaching the public eye comes amid mounting speculation that the winning bidder, a conglomerate known as Aqueduct Entertainment Group, had curried political favor in its effort to get the contract.

«Wasting tax payers money doing political favors in their districts with tax payer dollars.

New York City has never won, fueling criticism the Cuomo administration is steering the money to upstate areas like western New York and the North Country where he is hoping to win political favor.

The Legislature has a history of making those changes to gain political favor.