Sentences with phrase «slush fund with»

Baby Step 3: Fully fund your emergency slush fund with between 3 and 6 months» worth of living expenses, i.e. groceries, gas, auto insurance, utilities, etc..

Plus it gives them a slush fund with which they can purchase next semesters books.

«The attempt to link the chairman's name to the $ 115 million Slush Fund with Fidelity Bank is not only mischievous but disingenuous handiwork of adversaries who will stop at nothing to concoct stories no matter how ridiculous about our chairman.

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.

Not having Unions in their back pocket — and with no Super Funds to milk — the Greens have gone direct to the source: filling their campaign slush funds with $ millions from Danish fan maker Vestas and wind farm developers — like Wotif entrepreneur Graeme Wood — who threw a pre-election donation to the Greens which was the largest political donation that has ever been given to an Australian political party (see our post here).

Not exact matches

According to Giuliani, the «fund of money» was Trump's regular retainer to Cohen, which seems to have been what amounts to a slush fund for Cohen to deal with Trump's various problems.

This provides Treasury Board with a «slush fund» for additional spending measures.

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.

For years, they were a big market team being managed like a medium market team, with an owner who was more interested in using the team like a personal slush fund.

This is clearly Kroenke, with no warning to Wenger et al, using the club as his own personal slush fund to back this new billion dollar loan he's trying to take out

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.

Just like others who had benefited from the slush funds doled out by former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison - Madueke, Chime is being investigated in connection with the N450million believed to have been allocated to the state which he received from the ex-Minister.

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.»

He allegedly took cash from a state slush fund and gave it to a doctor, who referred asbestos cases to a law firm that illegally split its share of medical settlements with Silver.

Mayor Bloomberg's documented slush fund, which spread millions of public dollars to favored groups and organizations with no oversight, set the tone for the culture of corruption and payoffs that dominate Council politics.

He also believes that «we have probably not heard the last of the slush fund scandal... we need to have accountability on whether the community groups that get City funding actually do what they say they were going to do with the money.

«The governor runs around the state with his slush fund and acts like Santa Claus,» Collins said.

During a subsequent break in the Manhattan federal court proceedings, both Wilford and Seabrook — who is charged with a corruption scheme involving council «slush» funds — appeared to tease Ricco about Johnson's playful performance.

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

Not to discount the value of that $ 350,000 union slush fund spiff, which Bharara will figure out anyway, de Blasio's wholly undemanding relationship with the UFT amounts to a profound betrayal of his responsibility to the city's 1.1 million public - school children.

Thomas Accused of Stealing Campaign Funds, Establishing a Slush Fund for Personal Use from His Inaugural Fund, and Falsely Filing Disclosure Reports with the State Board of Elections and Mount Vernon Board of Ethics MT. VERNON — Attorney General Eric -LSB-...]

In baseball you get kicked out for cheating, but now the Yankees are promoting someone who has never come clean with her slush fund scandal.

His scorn grew to encompass her tenure during the so - called «slush - fund scandal,» where it was revealed that Council members were handing out discretionary money to fake organizations and political cronies with little oversight.

He said it's time to «end crony capitalism, corporate giveaways and so - called billion dollar top down economic development slush funds and replace it with a sustainable economy powered by growth in innovation industries attractive to our region's best talent.»

Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said prosecutors would seek to retry Seabrook, who's charged with crimes that include funneling more than $ 1.2 million in council «slush» funds to non-profits that paid his then - mistress and several relatives more than $ 600,000 after taxes.

But in that latter year, he joined with the Legislature's leaders to create a new Dorm Authority slush fund, the State and Municipal Facilities Program.

«House Minority Leader John Boehner doesn't want to be lumped in with Rep. Joe Barton (R - TX), who in a hearing today apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward for the $ 20 billion escrow fund that, in Barton's words, amounts to a «shakedown» and a «slush fund.»

Sen. Klein would be happy to meet with Sen. Stewart - Cousins to enlist her support for a bill that repeals Wilson - Pakula, eliminates party slush funds and finally eliminates multimillion dollar transfers from party committees to individual candidates.»

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.

«The problem with the slush funds is that there are few restrictions on how the money is given out and little information on how decisions are made.

The group Citizens Union issued a report regarding $ 3 billion in the state budget, in various pots of money, that they say operate as veritable slush funds for state lawmakers to distribute to projects with little oversight and accountability.

Please tell the Florida Legislature to vote NO on the «Schools of Hope / High Impact Charter Networks» language, SB 796, SB 1552 and HB 5105 with its $ 200M slush fund and block its inclusion in the Senate Budget and prevent it from being slipped by either chamber into a «train» bill.

I would love to have both a 7 ″ tablet and a «regular» size smartphone, but with 5 kids on a single income my slush fund is dried up:).

It was intended to justify a global tax - with the American taxpayer getting soaked the most - to create a giant slush fund for the world political elite, the result of which would make those elitists richer and everyone else poorer.