Sentences with phrase «slush fund»

Be wary of slush funds for council members,» Bharara told the Association of Towns of the State of New York at the Marriott Marquis in Midtown.

«She wouldn't,» Turner said before attacking Weprin as being «tainted by a long career in politics,» referring to the City Council slush fund scandal and accusing Weprin of taking political contributions from charity.

If this all sounds familiar, it's because state leaders had a very similar system with slush funds in the past.

That provided a kind of slush fund for investing abroad.

«Mayor Thomas treated these accounts as slush funds to pay off cars, dinners and even a Chanel purse, and then lied about it in his filings,» Schneiderman said.

German news magazine Der Spiegel have today alleged that the committee in charge of organising the German bid for the 2006 World Cup, a bid that was eventually successful, set up a multi-million dollar slush fund with the express purpose of purchasing votes.

Nearly another half a million dollars that's not well accounted for may have been a personal slush fund for the charter holder — and may constitute fraud.

It is about carving off a piece of the profits for political slush funds.

McQueen has nothing to do with either the screen icon or the director or 12 Years A Slave, but instead follows what happens when a crew from Ohio tries to steal $ 30 million in illegal contributions and blackmail cash from President Richard Nixon's secret slush fund in 1972.

Hiram Monserrate turned himself in to federal authorities in connection with the NYC Council slush fund scandal, a commission of his former legislative colleagues, which rarely takes action against one of its own, found reasonable cause to believe that he violated the Public Officers Law by setting up a legal defense fund and soliciting contributions from from individuals and entities that had business interests in his work as a senator.

E.J. McMahon of the watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy wrote that the new budget includes nearly $ 500 million in «the biggest, murkiest, pork - barrel slush fund in Albany — and perhaps any state capital — has ever seen.»

Silver funneled $ 500,000 in state slush funds to a leading Manhattan oncologist in exchange for a steady stream of asbestos - related cancer cases, which he then fed to a personal - injury law firm that paid him more than $ 3 million in fees for the referrals, the feds charge.

The state needs to close damaging loopholes that allow unlimited donations for party slush funds or that allow the creation of multiple limited liability corporations to evade contribution limits.

a multimillion dollar slush fund?

Read a little bit into the federal investigation into how she ran slush funds in the city council.

Is this more earmarks for DemocRAT slush fund money?»

More from E.J.: «New York's tentative state budget deal would pour another $ 385 million into the biggest, murkiest pork - barrel slush fund Albany has ever seen.»

His Campaign for One New York slush fund collected a whopping $ 350,000 from the UFT scarcely a month before City Hall lavished that nine - year contract on the union.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget makes important changes to several secretive slush funds first brought to light by the Empire Center.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, says the governor's proposal is weakest when it comes down to large, lump sums of money that can be spent at the governor's and legislative leader's discretion, which the harshest critics call slush funds.

«It's a pretty big slush fund,» one official close to the governor said.

Forcing Ohio utility customers to finance FirstEnergy's corporate slush fund simply has no basis in Ohio law.

Or as the WFLC's spokeperson Kenan Block put it, «We believe Canada was either a willing or an unwitting partner in creating what's become a pro-timber industry slush fund in the United States.»

In addition, for a government that loves corporate welfare even more than past governments, Ottawa announced female - specific funding for entrepreneurs through its existing alphabet potpourri of regional slush fund agencies.

The lingering question around the involvement of former prime minister Julia Gillard in the Australian Workers Union slush fund saga is why...

* Abolish slush funds: The key to one of Silver's schemes was his ability to secretly arrange $ 500,000 in grants to a doctor who, in turn, referred asbestos patients to Silver's law firm for lucrative suits.

on Staten Island's north shore that's already received $ 25 million from state taxpayers through the capital pork slush fund formally known as the

Another project on the PACB agenda Wednesday is ESD's request to direct $ 22 million to the Empire Outlets, a retail project on Staten Island's north shore that's already received $ 25 million from state taxpayers through the capital pork slush fund formally known as the State and Municipal Facilities Program (SMFP).

In addition to this sum, hedge fund managers have spent $ 2.53 million filling the coffers of the New York State Democratic Party Committee's Housekeeping fund, a Cuomo - controlled slush fund that has been used to pay for advertisements to support the Governor.

Ken Girardin: Cuomo's proposed budget «makes important changes to several secretive slush funds first brought to light by the Empire Center.»

A secretive, multi-million dollar taxpayer - funded slush fund used for years to pay off victims of sexual misconduct was tapped to settle a lawsuit against Queens Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks.

«Forcing Ohio utility customers to finance FirstEnergy's corporate slush fund simply has no basis in Ohio law,» said Shannon Fisk, Managing Attorney at Earthjustice.

«Today's decision takes hundreds of millions of dollars out of customers» pockets in order to create a massive slush fund for FirstEnergy Corp. and its shareholders,» said Shannon Fisk, attorney at the non-profit environmental law firm Earthjustice.

The days of free - flowing slush funds, though, are over.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has attacked the government over its legislation to streamline the accounting process, arguing it lacks legal enforceability on how Ottawa spends «this $ 7 billion no - strings - attached Liberal slush fund.»

Governor Perry tries to pick winners and losers by creating slush funds that give taxpayer money to connected corporations and his campaign contributors.

Whether or not they paid for this junket, if they are thinking of footing the bill for others in the future, even despots with unlimited slush funds might ask whether the NCC today has any influence worth buying.

Past and present German football officials may be taking advantage of the 2006 slush fund speculation to settle old scores.

-LRB-... The DN calls on de Blasio to use his mayoral powers to abolish the Council practice of dividing up some $ 400 million annually in so - called member items...) ************* Don't see de Blasio using up political chips to try to end the member - item slush fund.

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 State and Municipal Facilities Aid slush fund apparently isn't subject to the added disclosure and accountability guidelines applied to standard pork barrel «member items» at the recommendation of then - Attorney General Cuomo in 2008.

· Eliminate «Housekeeping Committees»: Housekeeping committees now operate as barely regulated slush funds for political parties and legislative campaign committees and must be eliminated.

Last week, Cuomo's folks said funds to pay the past - due bills would come from the state's Dormitory Authority — the most - abused slush fund in state government.