Cuomo and Christie have also proposed selling off the Port Authority's real estate assets, and many believe there will soon be a fire sale for the
largest real estate donors who just wrote huge checks to both governors for their respective re-election campaigns.
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.
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.
Bharara's probe originally began making headlines after Cuomo's move in 2014 to shut down an anti-corruption panel just as it reportedly began
investigating real estate donors with close ties to legislators and the governor.
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.
While other
major real estate donors — Related Companies» Steve Ross and the Durst Organization's Douglas Durst among them — have similar interests and comparably large (or larger) companies, none come close to giving as much as Glenwood.
The largest
real estate donor on the group's list is the Real Estate Board of New York, a statewide group that advocates for real estate developers.
Follow the lobbying, and follow Ashley Cotton and her relationship with Empire State Development, Joe Percoco and Cuomo's
real estate donor Ratner.
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.
Avella's kickoff today comes as state and federal grand juries contemplate evidence that the mayor and / or certain of his political aides may have engaged in illegal fundraising tactics and pay - to - play schemes with
large real estate donors.
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.
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.
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.
Flanagan's largest
real estate donor was Staller Associates, a commercial landlord based in his Long Island district.
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.