Sentences with phrase «real estate lobbyists»

The court, for example, declared that the meeting with real estate lobbyists can not still qualify as an official act, and Silver's use of a government letterhead can't serve by itself as proof of an official act.

Suri Kasirer, a top real estate lobbyist who has not worked for Glenwood, said the 421a program fuels New York's economic engine.

And conversely, the spate of tax laws, fiscal giveaways and Federal Reserve policies that helped inflate the real estate bubble since 2001 were man - made — and shaped specifically by real estate lobbyists and financial promoters.

However, de Blasio has held meetings with real estate lobbyists, as Quinn and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson's campaigns have noted, and received $ 215,300 from the industry, the fourth most.

«Extending 421a does at least two things,» said Kasirer, a top real estate lobbyist.

This being Albany of course (some things never change), the bill language had yet to be finalized which led to days of advocates on both sides of the issue shuttling between Silver's outer office off the floor and the Senate lobby where the real estate lobbyists hung out.

The IDC responded to the group's claim with its own analysis of major donors from health care, charter school and real estate lobbyists.

And How old is Stanley Schein, the Real Estate Lobbyist, back room deal maker who got her the BRONX endorsement.

Sadly, he has chosen to listen to real estate lobbyists and obstruct the bills» passage, and Sen. Alcántara has refused to call him out despite pleas from advocates and constituents.