Sentences with phrase «slush funds for»

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.

«The taxpayers of Westchester do not support slush funds for County Legislators,» said Minority Whip Gordon A. Burrows, (R - Yonkers).

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.

That's because previous governors and legislators have built up $ 7 billion in slush funds for projects of their choice.

Under Quinn, the City Council hid millions in secret slush funds for organizations that didn't actually exist.

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

Union leaders make bucketloads of money, kickbacks from everybody and slush funds for anything that crosses their mind.

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.

PSU has a slush fund for recruiting, etc..

«A gentleman never competes for money, directly or indirectly» he intoned in» Walter Camp's Book of College Sports,» all the while controlling a reputed $ 100,000 (about $ 2.5 million in today's dollars) slush fund for athletic «tutoring.»

In March, legislators bristled when Cuomo tried to use $ 100 million of their «capital projects» slush fund for the councils, but the governor's aides eventually found $ 100 million by cancelling plans to build a state data center and re-obligated another $ 30 million in an older gubernatorial «capital projects» pork fund.

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-...]

Critics and ethics watchdogs blasted the nonprofit Campaign for One New York as a slush fund for the mayor.

When Cuomo took over, the agency was known as something of a slush fund for shady slumlords and real estate developers.

So I'd keep the federal program, kickstart state programs, and take whatever funds you need from Title II, which remains a slush fund for mediocre PD vendors.

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.

Miller also took aim at the flexibility bill passed by the committee in July, which he labeled a «slush fund for school districts.»

Think about billions of dollars donated to a slush fund for UN kleptomaniacs.

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

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.

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.

It shouldn't take an act of Congress to keep ex-lawmakers from using their old campaign accounts as a slush fund for personal expenses.

That provided a kind of slush fund for investing abroad.

Not exact matches

Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

Concerns the money would be used for a slush fund may well have been fulfilled.

Horgan said that looks like code for a slush fund.

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.

Transfer payments, regional subsidies and even the announcements for universities, regional slush funds or rural broadband financing announced over the last few months, they all share the intended two - prong effect: vote - buying, and spreading the illusion that the federal government can fix a local problem, be it in classrooms or in lousy internet connections.

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.

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.

When the US Attorney and FBI investigated the slush fund scandal, Quinn used taxpayer dollars to pay for her lawyers.

«This case stands for a very simple but important principle, which is that you can not use your campaign account as a slush fund to avoid public scrutiny,» said Schneiderman, D - New York.

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.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has never stopped congratulating her self for adding «transparency» to the council's pork - distribution process in the wake of recent slush - fund scandals.

E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center, called the spending «pork» from a «slush fund» and questioned why state taxpayers are footing the bill for things «local government ought to be doing.»

Sheldon 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, federal prosecutors charged Thursday.

The onus is therefore on the Kogi State Government to justify its request for 50.8 billion Naira, and to assure the CBN that the state is not seeing the funds as slush money.

It wants, instead, to be able to tap into its slush fund and let its members hand out the checks for politically popular projects, just like in flush times.

Is this more earmarks for DemocRAT slush fund money?»

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.

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.»

In the statement, Klein reiterated hi call for ending the Wilson - Pakula waiver for cross-party endorsements and eliminatnig «party slush funds» or the so - called housekeeping accounts.

«There's $ 450 million in a slush fund that can be allocated this afternoon for clean water for Hoosick Falls,» said resident Michele Baker at a news conference on Thursday.

Assemblyman Charles Lavine, a Long Island Democrat, penned a NYT OpEd on how to save Albany, saying the convictions of Silver and Skelos demonstrate the need for a full - time Legislature and a ban on «slush funds.»

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.

«The Speaker refuses to apologize for overturning the will of the people, the slush - fund scandal, and things in her professional life,» said former congressman Anthony Weiner, noting later that, «anyone on this stage who helped [Bloomberg] get that third term should not get a promotion.»

Schneiderman said the Maziarz case stood «for a very simple but important principle, which is that you can not use your campaign account as a slush fund to avoid public scrutiny.

He raised as much as $ 40 million and deposited it in various slush funds he formed, including the Campaign for One New York, which he started before he even took the oath of office.