Sentences with phrase «taxpayer cash»

He later did jail time on unrelated charges of stealing taxpayer cash.

Once again, Mayor Bill de Blasio is claiming the moral high ground to justify a decision that places a huge sum of taxpayer cash in his pockets.

A scandal - scarred Queens nonprofit is getting $ 69,000 in taxpayer cash from NYC Council pols doling out member items, budget records show.

Gov. Cuomo this week announced a long - overdue crackdown on «nonprofit» groups that use taxpayer cash to fund their bosses» to - die - for salaries.

Over the past week, things have gone downhill quickly for both Lopez, who announced he won't be seeking re-election as Brooklyn Democratic chairman, but has refused to heed calls to resign his Assembly seat; and Silver, who was revealed to have negotiated a secret settlement of $ 103,000 worth of taxpayer cash with two women whose harassment claims against Lopez pre-dated those sent to the ethics committee.

No company has been so adept at extracting taxpayer cash as it stumbled from one era of mismanagement to another.

And that is not to count the vast waves of taxpayer cash directed towards it or the trauma of the people who are taken away in front of their family or co-workers and locked up, with no idea of when they will be released.

Constitutional activist Bob Schulz squared off with a lawyer for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in a fight over taxpayer cash spent to settle ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez's sexual harassment scandal and the state constitution.

Labour have union funded by a system of taxpayer cash disguised as the modernisation fund.

Dangle taxpayer cash in front of a New York lawmaker's eyes and you can kiss it goodbye: Much of it is sure to wind up in his or her own pocket.

«We hope Mr. Trump will come back to his senses and remember that in a country with a $ 19 trillion national debt, paying Big Wind billions of dollars in taxpayer cash makes no sense, especially since wind energy only works when the wind blows and leads to higher electricity bills to pay for backup generation that other reliable sources don't require.

Tory ministers have used taxpayer cash to fund a secretive hard - Brexit pressure group, now led by outspoken government critic Jacob Rees - Mogg

If we could have stolen taxpayer cash to do so, and really had no responsibility of actually producing something of value, I'm sure we would have likewise held our joint meetings in the Seychelles, Rio, etc, etc..

And while there's been some grousing about the use of taxpayer cash to fund the trip, even staunch Trudeau opponents have to admit that paying attention to what people want is, in fact, the job of a leader.

Christopher Fasano, a research director at Neuro Stem Cell Research Institute, which receives millions in taxpayer cash, has been suspended after critics questioned some of his work.

Well, hopefully the transition planning will be completed soon and the Governor - elect will be able to save the taxpayers some cash by not having a Senior Advisor «to assist with the transition.»

The NYT reported that Silver had used an undisclosed amount of taxpayer cash to settle a claim made against Lopez before these two staffers» complaints were referred to the ethics committee.

SUNY used $ 660,500 of taxpayer cash to make a former CEO of Upstate University Hospital effectively «disappear.»

A Brooklyn charity that got member items from Sen. Kevin Parker spent most of the taxpayer cash to hire the brother of his chief of staff.

Though not an actual government agency, ESD has the power to dispense massive amounts of taxpayer cash.

In September openDemocracy also revealed that the ERG's work is funded by at least # 250,000 of taxpayer cash, as many of its MP members siphon off funds from their research budget to pay for a pooled ERG staff member.

The European Research Group is a ruthlessly organised faction within the Conservative party, funded by a mix of taxpayer cash and dark money.

Despite the group taking taxpayer money, the ERG has long refused to list its members — with Fernandes repeatedly declining to do so in what many described as a «car crash» Channel 4 News interview, hours after openDemocracy revealed that her organisation was funded by taxpayer cash.

The truth is that member items constitute a legalized slush fund that gives pols millions in taxpayer cash that they then use to buy loyalty, community support and votes.

In four distinct cases, Silver cut deals to spend hundreds of thousands in taxpayer cash to buy the silence of his colleagues» victims.

Smith funneled more than $ 56,000 in taxpayer cash to the Springfield Gardens group, which never fully accounted for its spending.

Even under the legislature's porous ethics rules, this handover of taxpayer cash to an organization where he had a financial interest was a violation.

Skelos, on the other hand, has floated a figure closer to $ 200 million annually, and insists this is not a smart use of taxpayer cash.

But since the taxpayer cash began flowing, millennials have begun moving to the Buffalo area, reversing decades of declining population, Hochul said.

Rather than use taxpayer cash to keep staff from fleeing, de Blasio might try making City Hall a more desirable place to work.

When the courts declared state education systems inadequate, the only relief they provided was a pile of taxpayer cash — to be spent by the same bureaucracy that was said to be inefficient and inadequate.

Consider the subprime mess recently where all the greedy banks who caused the crisis were bailed out with taxpayer cash, and still the bank execs were given huge bonuses using the taxpayer's money.

San Jose - based SunPower Corp. will slash 25 percent of its total workforce as one of the prime beneficiaries of President Barack Obama blowing $ 200 billion of taxpayer cash to increase renewable energy by 1 percent of total energy consumption.

In this way, each year the provinces could redirect the taxpayer cash currently being sent to the CMPA (so doctors can get high priced taxpayer funded «Cadillac» lawyering) toward something that might help improve the health and well being of the poor and vulnerable.

The taxes are ultimately due when the replacement property is sold and the taxpayer cashes out.

The tax does not go away, but rather is due when the replacement property sells and the taxpayer cashes out.