Sentences with phrase «real estate donor ratner»

Flanagan's largest real estate donor was Staller Associates, a commercial landlord based in his Long Island district.

His real estate donor wish list contained the name of DUMBO developer Jed Walentas of Two Trees Management who eventually gave $ 100,000 to the Campaign for One New York.

They just wanted to get rid of their bad headlines without angering the real estate donors who support the B.C. Liberal Party.

In the last eight years, Governor Cuomo's real estate donors have dictated housing policy in our state — and the results have been disastrous.

«All Bloomberg has to do is send a message to the real estate donors that Larry's the guy, or the charter school people, and the money will start flowing,» said a Harlem insider who knows all three men.

This landlord group gave to a few Democrats, but has remained one of the few real estate donors that has not shifted its money to the party with stronger positions in favor of issues such as rent control.

And as the trial shined a light on the role real estate donors play in the halls of Albany, the industry has been cool to donate to the disgraced politician's successor.

By contrast, City Council Speaker Quinn — who has raised more funds than any other candidate — drummed up just under $ 20,000 and Public Advocate de Blasio raised a mere $ 12,730 from real estate donors in the same period.

Of all the real estate donors, Related Companies» employees have been pretty generous.

«This is the guy who spent the last eight years — two of them after Donald Trump got elected — keeping Republicans and their real estate donors in power,» Lipton said.

Real estate donors are apparently lining up to support a Trump campaign for the New York governorship, according to the New York Daily News, while the Donald himself is reportedly well aware of the possibility of succeeding Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2018.

All told, Flanagan received nearly $ 8,000 from real estate donors.

The billionaire gave him $ 20,000, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the $ 34,000 Peralta received from city real estate donors this year.

While real estate donors were slow to contribute to Heastie in the early part of 2015, he collected more than $ 10,000 from real estate players by the close of the year.

Among her top real estate donors are employees of Rudin Management, who contributed $ 74,600 to her campaign.

The investigation became news in 2014 after Cuomo attempted to close down the Moreland Commission, an anti-corruption panel, shortly after it began investigating real estate donors with relationships to legislators and the governor himself.

Among the real estate donors were Two Trees Management, which gave $ 100,000 through an LLC, Brookfield Financial Property L.P., which donated $ 50,000, Douglaston Development, which contributed $ 25,000, and Alma Realty Corp., which gave $ 5,000.

Not exact matches

Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and real estate tycoon Geoffrey Palmer, both top donors to the Trump's re-election campaign, declined to comment about the raid.

Aside from Adelson, Florida's largest anti-weed donor — contributing $ 1 million — is Mel Sembler, chairman emeritus of the Sembler Company, a commercial real estate firm.

Spoiler alert: she does not go into detail about how fentanyl dealers used the real estate market to launder drug money or how B.C. casinos (also big donors to her party) helped international high rollers convert duffel bags of dirty cash into down payments on luxury homes.

Fossil fuel companies and real estate developers were among Clark's biggest campaign donors and, between B.C.'s climate leadership plan and the long time inaction to address housing inflation, they certainly seem to have had her ear on policy decisions.

Contributions of real estate to a charity or donor - advised fund account are generally deductible at fair market value — as determined by an independent qualified appraiser — on the date of contribution, whereas contributions of real estate to a private foundation are generally deductible at the lower of cost basis or market value.

By donating such assets to a public charity (including a donor - advised fund account), they can take a full, fair market value income tax deduction for the donation while potentially eliminating capital gains tax liability on the sale of real estate.

Contributions of certain real estate, private equity, or other illiquid assets are accepted via a charitable intermediary, with proceeds transferred to a donor - advised account upon liquidation.

Schwab Charitable accepts contributions of certain real estate, private equity or other illiquid assets via a charitable intermediary, with proceeds of your donation transferred to your donor - advised account upon liquidation.

We observe donors using other assets to contribute to their donor - advised funds, such as closely - held stock, real estate and personal property.

As a New York real estate developer and Democratic donor, Trump is one of those elites.

Andrea Catsimatidis, daughter of supermarket, real estate and gas station mogul and longtime political donor / player John Catsimatidis, is poised to take the healm of the Manhattan Republican Party tonight.

By contrast, the coalition of business, real estate and private - sector union interests raised $ 17.5 million from 74 donors in 2011.

Of his top 50 donors, 26 are businesses involved in real estate or construction; two are labor unions.

Big real estate political donors are at the center of the ongoing Sheldon Silver scandal, the end of the Moreland Commission, and further investigations by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Investigators want to know if real estate developers and other donors received preferential treatment from the city in exchange for contributions to the group, which was created to promote the mayor's policy agenda.

In February, IBTimes reported that a Cuomo donor at the center of the probe saw his real estate firm receive subsidies from the same state housing agency that gave bond work to Cuomo's financial industry donors.

For example, when commission investigators sought to review political donations and communications by the Real Estate Board of New York — a trade group whose members include some of Cuomo's biggest donors — in an effort to connect the dots on a valuable housing tax break, the governor's secretary reportedly instructed commissioners not to subpoena the organization.

The second scheme alleges Silver urged major real estate developers, including Glenwood Management, the state's sveltest political donor, to hire Goldberg & Iryami for tax certiorari work.

Big real estate political donors are at the center of the ongoing Sheldon Silver scandal, the end of the Moreland Commission, and -LSB-...]

«I find it disturbing that these mailers are being paid for through the Independence Party, and I know that the IDC donors are generally charter schools and real estate developers,» she said.

«Andrew Cuomo has made a choice, he has surrounded himself with wealthy donors, powerful corporate real estate tycoons, and Wall Street hedge fund moguls,» Nixon said.

The report shows that Bob Duffy 2010 has spent $ 1,902.93 a month since January on housing, with payments going to AG Spanos, a real - estate company owned by San Diego Chargers owner and prolific GOP donor Alex G. Spanos.

Glenwood Management, the real estate development firm at the center of the federal corruption cases against former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is the state's most generous political donor and a robust utilizer of the LLC loophole.

An analysis by The Real Deal of individual contributions by real estate industry players to the presidential election found much the same partisan alignment — donors strongly favored the Real Deal of individual contributions by real estate industry players to the presidential election found much the same partisan alignment — donors strongly favored the real estate industry players to the presidential election found much the same partisan alignment — donors strongly favored the GOP.

In addition to Litwin, other real estate interests that have been major Cuomo donors spent substantial sums of money helping Republicans in the Senate.

Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York — whose members are Cuomo's largest campaign donors — responded to the governor by saying «we can't regulate our way out of our affordable housing problem» and calling for incentives to build more.

Cuomo's aides did not respond to questions about whether Rechler — a real estate developer who is a close gubernatorial ally and donor, and Cuomo's former vice chairman at the Port — would corroborate any aspect of Wildstein's account.

Of these 25 Cuomo donors, Leonard Litwin, a real estate magnate whose holdings contributed $ 1 million to the governor's committee this cycle, donated the most to Senate races.

According to campaign officials, four donors paid top dollar to sit with the governor, his girlfriend, Sandra Lee, and one of his daughters in the M.S.G. box owned by Cushman & Wakefield, a major real estate firm.

Among the donors listed are major New York City real estate players (the Durst Organization, Tishman Speyer) and influential lobbyists such as James Capalino.

«They include efforts by city officials to aid the owner of a restaurant in Queens, a soundstage company in Brooklyn and a Brooklyn real estate developer — all donors to the mayor,» the Times reported, noting the restaurant owner is cooperating with authorities.

Among the upstate town's major political donors are Joseph and Esther Markowitz, who run a local real estate company and regularly write four - figure checks to certain candidates from New York City.

The coalition of real - estate and private - sector union interests is a registered 501c4, same as a non-profit charity, and does not have reveal its donors.