Sentences with phrase «supported real estate legislation»
Mr. Silver, prosecution evidence showed, supported real estate legislation, for example, that benefited the developers.
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Prosecutors say Silver also supported legislation that benefited a big real estate developer and pocketed kickbacks when the developer sent legal work to another law firm run by a Silver pal, according to prosecutors.
For example, while SILVER was publicly associated with advocating for tenants, a proposal that benefitted Glenwood Management was in substantial part enacted in real estate legislation in 2011 with SILVER's support.
At trial, prosecutors presented evidence that the elder Mr. Skelos, 68, used his position as majority leader to pressure a real estate developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer — firms that depended on his support as senator for legislation that benefited their interests — to provide Adam Skelos with consulting work, a direct payment of $ 20,000 and a job that required him to do virtually no work.
Mukhi compared Bonomo's testimony to that of Charles Dorego, a real estate executive at Glenwood Management, who told jurors that he felt pressured to direct work to Adam Skelos because he needed his father's support in the Legislature as several key pieces of real estate legislation were due to expire.
The government has also said that Mr. Silver took official actions as speaker to benefit the developers, including signing off on critical real estate legislation that was supported by Glenwood.
Sen. Vincent Fort called the legislation a «blatant corruption of power» that «trotted out» school children as «pawns to pad the pockets of for - profit management companies and real estate deals» supported by a «Herculean» lobbying effort that, Fort told the Senate, was «drenched in money mongering.»
On the negative side for the real estate industry, Clinton has publicly stated he'd veto the so - called private property rights legislation actively supported by NAR and the real estate industry.
Support for our position is strong in Congress, where we're seeking legislation that would forbid banks from crossing the line into the real estate business.
NAR supported the legislation because the tax changes would have benefited American homeowners and homebuyers — and therefore REALTORS ® — by reducing interest rates and enacting several important changes for residential and commercial real estate.
Jeans says she supports mandatory education on acts and legislation — in fact considers it essential — but that there are other areas of learning like teaching agents how to ethically survive in the real estate industry that are just as important.
The legislation, which supports homeowners and real estate investment, was passed by Congress and will be signed into law by the President...
When 3rd parties attempt to suggest they hold enough market intelligence to support their marketing suggestions to real estate professionals, suggests they know how the MLS infrastructure, provincial trading legislation and consumer behaviour that terminates in a trade in real estate, applies to Keywords purchased.
«Overall, CREA supports the efforts of the regulators to harmonize wherever they can — this doesn't mean there will be identical real estate legislation right across the country,» says Fraser.
2014: Supported legislation to increase the number of continuing education credits for real estate brokers, and to require initial training for newly licensed real estate agents
The Northern Virginia Association of Realtors ® (NVAR) supports legislation to protect the public from the ambiguity of real estate teams by defining teams and regulating the advertising and real estate services provided by licensees as part of a team or group.
There is also strong support for the legislation from the commercial real estate industry.
support legislation to repeal the Internet continuing education seat time requirement in order to allow real estate licensees and appraisers to complete courses at their own pace