Sentences with phrase «pro quo arrangement»

You scratch my back and... [A quid pro quo arrangement] It is in the unhappy marriage where the partners feel they have to maintain a tally of what one does for the other...

Without that ICE phrase, her book does no better than insinuate illicit money buys skeptic climate scientists» viewpoints, while not even making any effort to back this up with hard evidence of a quid pro quo arrangement between skeptics and industry.

Not long after the release of Ross Gelbspan's 1997 «The Heat is On» book, words in its book jacket sleeve about him being a «Pulitzer - winning journalist exposing industry efforts to confuse the public about global warming» drew a response from skeptic climate scientist Dr S. Fred Singer, who categorically denied any quid pro quo arrangement with «big coal & oil», while also directly saying Gelbspan was not a Pulitzer winner.

Never mind that neither Gore nor anyone else who quotes the «reposition global warming» phrase and other memo phrases ever shows them in their full context or mentions any in - depth details about the leak, and none of them have ever proven a quid pro quo arrangement exists between skeptics and industry funders.

There is often a quid pro quo arrangement between authors of «I'll review / blurb your book if you'll review / blurb mine.»

Additionally, I was not offering a quid pro quo arrangement: I wasn't offering a copy of the book in exchange for a review; I was simply offering them a free book.

Cavallo wanted a quid pro quo arrangement for his endorsement and Astorino refused to comply.»

Gitner tried to show the relationship between Howe and Kelly was not a quid pro quo arrangement designed to benefit CPV's development of a controversial gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

The decision found that a quid pro quo arrangement must show some kind of direct benefit to the person paying the alleged bribes — or, in de Blasio's case, the legal campaign contributions.

«Even if there is no quid pro quo arrangement, just the mere appearance of someone handing over cash and then receiving a lucrative contract is damaging to the integrity of the public's confidence in government,» said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that focuses on ethics and campaign finance issues.

The alleged quid pro quo arrangement with Taub is one of two secret corruption schemes federal prosecutors say Silver orchestrated.

It also raises the suspicion of a quid pro quo arrangement, potentially indebting our leadership to a foreign nation.

Kolb also questioned Cuomo's appearance at fundraisers with Hollywood players that he believes creates the appearance of a quid pro quo arrangement.

The conviction was reversed for faulty jury instructions after the Supreme Court narrowed the definition of an «official act» that must be performed as part of a criminal quid pro quo arrangement.

«The abundant record evidence that Dean Skelos traded his vote for legislation... in exchange for benefits to his son... is sufficient to allow a reasonable jury to infer the existence of a quid pro quo arrangement,» the judges said.

Grace is not awarded for the satisfactory completion of a spiritual check list — and grace is not earned for works or acts — and grace is not part of a quid pro quo arrangement or relationship — and grace is not a stipulation of a contract or covenant — and grace is not right thinking or thinking right or thinking good thoughts or having the right beliefs — and grace is not about rewards and punishments — and grace is not about later.

The decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in a ruling that narrowed the definition of the types of official acts that could be considered as part of quid pro quo arrangements.

He was adamant that there were no quid pro quo arrangements.

As the two investigations diverged, the U.S. attorney's office focused almost exclusively on potential quid pro quo arrangements with de Blasio donors from the 2013 campaign, while Vance's office remained focused on complaints referred by the state Board of Elections over whether the mayor violated contribution limits in steering money to Democratic State Senate candidates in 2014.

Not exact matches

«Although the government principally advanced a theory that Dean Skelos's arrangement for or participation in certain meeting constituted circumstantial evidence of a quid pro quo for legislative votes, it also argued in the alternative that the meetings themselves satisfied the official - act requirement,» the panel wrote in their decision.

The FBI denied that the agency ever engaged in a «quid pro quo» arrangement with Clinton's State Department over the classification of an email, following Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz's accusation of «potential criminality» in an interview with Fox News last week.

The SEC complaint, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, alleged that Quadrangle improperly obtained a $ 100 million investment from the New York state pension fund with «quid pro quo» arrangements.

The defense contends that the arrangements may have been conflicts of interest of the sort that are typical in a part - time legislature where lawmakers are permitted to make money on the side, but there was no «quid pro quo» altering Silver's official actions.

Prosecutors argued that this amounted to an illegal quid pro quo for Silver, who the government said steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in state research grants to Taub to keep the patients coming — something the prosecution noted Silver never publicized, allegedly because he wanted to keep attention away from the illicit arrangement.

The feds say that arrangement was part of an illegal quid pro quo in which Silver funneled $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants to Taub, who is avoiding prosecution by agreeing to testify against the Manhattan Democrat.

At the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse in Lower Manhattan, the attorneys argued in their opening statements that, contrary to Justice Department claims, the Nassau County state senator had never and would never change a vote or stance in order to secure sinecures for his son and thus had never engaged in a criminal quid quo pro arrangement.

During the trial, Silver's lawyers argued that the government failed to prove that there was a quid pro quo between the former Speaker's arrangements with a cancer doctor to provide him referrals for a class action lawsuit, and state funded research grants awarded to the doctor.

Marketing Arrangements — Most recently, the CFPB published an order against Lighthouse Title (Lighthouse), a Michigan title insurance agency, to pay $ 200,000 for illegal quid pro quo referral agreements.