Sentences with phrase «ran slush funds»
Read a little bit into the federal investigation into how she ran slush funds in the city council.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/
«The state shouldn't be running these slush funds in the first place,» he added.
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While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»
«The governor runs around the state with his slush fund and acts like Santa Claus,» Collins said.
Another slush fund can skirt the ban simply by not referring to the official who runs it in its «communications.»
In «Roots of Betrayal: The Ethics of Christine Quinn,» Queens - based gay activist Louis Flores documented a host of ethical and legal infractions, including the celebrated slush fund scandal that prompted the speaker to push the term limit extension bill through the Council, allowing Bloomberg — and Quinn herself — to run for a third term.
Some of these companies (like Duke Energy and the American Petroleum Institute) pay into a slush fund run by ALEC that allows Ohio legislators and their families to fly to ALEC events using undisclosed corporate cash (see ALEC in Ohio, p. 6).