Sentences with phrase «through campaign contributions»

The aerial message is directed to arriving attendees of the meeting and highlights the Koch Brothers ongoing use of their vast oil profits to push a polluter agenda through campaign contributions, lobbying, and funding fronts groups and think tanks.

Pension consultants would gain business through campaign contributions, and the Democratic and Republican consultants would collaborate and share to control the profits jointly.

In fact, it's enough to buy a lot of political influence through campaign contributions and spending on lobbying.

Everybody is out to buy a politician through campaign contributions so they can push their agendas.

A real estate official who cooperated with investigators allegedly told them that Skelos, «using explicit language, stated he would punish» the industry if it didn't support him through campaign contributions.

A spokesman for the governor, Rich Azzopardi, took issue with McGrath linking the scandal involving economic development contracts to improperly influencing Cuomo through campaign contributions.

To make matters worse, tax rates are being cut for the rentiers who receive this interest, while their array of special exemptions and tax breaks are widened as they gain control of the political process through campaign contributions and ownership of the media.

The group's Karen Scharff says a search through campaign contribution records finds opponents of the measure gave $ 400,000 to state Senate campaigns, and 71 percent of the money went to GOP candidate's coffers.

The group's Karen Scharff says a search through campaign contribution records finds opponents of the measure gave $ 400,000 to State Senate campaigns, and 71 % of the money went to GOP candidate s coffers.

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The Canadian Labour Congress conducted a campaign through the fall of 2009, calling for contributions to and benefits from the Canada Pension Plan to be doubled.

That same year, they launched CreateaFund to help people launch personal fundraising campaigns, promote their causes through social media and collect contributions.

Mr. Cohen said that he had given a similar statement to the Federal Election Commission in response to a complaint filed by the government watchdog group Common Cause, which contended that the payment, made through a limited liability company that Mr. Cohen established, was an in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

Your contribution to our year - end campaign supports Puppet Showplace Theater's mission to bring outstanding professional puppetry to diverse audiences through performances, workshops, and community outreach activities.

Yesterday, Lancman took to Twitter to decry Wal - Mart, writing: «Whether it's through politically motivated «philanthropy,» campaign contributions or outright bribes, NYC is not for sale.»

... In 1988, Lowey ousted DioGuardi after a report that Joseph Crabtree, the head of DioGuardi's campaign finance committee, had funneled more than $ 50,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign through his numerous auto dealerships.

At the moment, a single campaign donor can give unlimited contributions through a network of limited liability companies or LLCs.

Strikingly, the lion's share of campaign spending made by Glenwood and its affiliates are made through LLC contributions.

Many state campaigns which were the recipients of Glenwood contributions received their money almost entirely through Glenwood's LLCs.

«When the limits for contributions to the parties are much higher than for candidates, contributions to the parties in effect become a pass - through to the candidates,» said Michael Malbin, a University at Albany political science professor and director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank.

The measure is intended to reduce the flow of anonymous contributions, or «dark money,» flowing from donors through 501c (4) charitable groups in support of political campaigns.

This ongoing corruption is made possible because Glenwood, through its aggressive use of its LLCs, is effectively not subject to any campaign contribution limits.

One thing of interest I spotted as I quickly breezed through this filing: Paladino returned a $ 2,500 campaign contribution to former AG Dennis Vacco, who is representing indicted GOP operative John Haggerty in the Mayor Bloomberg / state Independence Party case.

According to the controversial agreement, TextGenesys was to make available to the NPP shortcodes through which party members, sympathizers and supporters of the party were to subscribe to daily, weekly and monthly contributions / donations towards their party's revenue generation campaign.

Overall, the Sheehan campaign took in just over $ 25,000 in contributions and spent nearly $ 200,000 from July 14 through Aug. 7.

Companies routinely circumvent New York's campaign contribution limits by giving through multiple LLC entities, which has degraded the integrity of our elections and given certain interests outsized influence in both chambers of the legislature.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has followed through on a promise to donate campaign contributions he has collected from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein.

«Paladino has amassed considerable power and influence in western New York through his real estate development, political campaigns, media presence, elected office, and campaign contributions,» the group's director Sam Magavern wrote in a statement.

At one point, JCOPE Chairwoman Janet DiFiore attempted to cut Batra off, telling the person testifying that he did not have to answer Batra's question, which was about potential money laundering of campaign contributions through 5014cs.

The rules explicitly seek to stop financial companies from circumventing those strictures: They prohibit firms from channeling contributions to bond overseers through PACs, which are giant pools of money distributed to multiple campaign war chests.

A coalition of groups on Monday urged the state Board of Elections to prohibit the practice of allowing individual donors to give unlimited campaign contributions through a network of limited liability corporations.

The state Business Council on Wednesday urged the Board of Elections in a letter to not end what in effect has been a regulation allowing unlimited campaign contributions through LLCs.

Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell says the state's campaign finance contribution limits will remain the same through the end of the year.

The loophole allows donors to skirt limitations on individual campaign contributions by donating anonymously through one or more limited liability companies.

In addition to direct campaign contributions, campaign finance laws also apply to third - party organizations and nonprofit organizations that seek to influence elections through independent expenditures or issue advocacy.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and the FBI alleged that Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) extorted a real estate company to make campaign contributions to Republicans and finance the hiring of his son, Adam, through an Arizona - based environmental company.

Liu collected $ 522,000 through 2,052 contributions over the past six months, according to the campaign, which threw an elaborate birthday bash last week ahead of the deadline.

Through the end of March, Buesing brought in $ 115,925 in campaign contributions, including $ 34,460 in his most recent campaign finance report.

In one day in 2014, Glenwood funneled $ 450,000 in contributions to two accounts for the Senate Republican Campaign Committee through 18 separate LLCs.

Larger businesses sometimes create numerous LLCs to get around contribution limits, but Nixon's campaign said it still won't take money through the LLC loophole.

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has followed through on a promise to donate campaign contributions he has collected from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein.

The pillars on which the scheme was erected — large companies that funnel their influence through legal campaign contributions (and through «fees» that wind up in legislators» pockets), a system in which outside business interests are barely disclosed and rarely reviewed — have been laid bare.

«The third time however, proved to be a charm, as Mr. Pigeon and the foreign national, together orchestrated that the $ 25,000 campaign contribution be made through a U.S. citizen,» Kennedy said.

Ralph Nader condemned the ruling, [79] saying that «With this decision, corporations can now directly pour vast amounts of corporate money, through independent expenditures, into the electoral swamp already flooded with corporate campaign PAC contribution dollars.»

The two trials laid bare many of the secrets the commission might have uncovered — with testimony about the vast, almost unilateral power exercised by legislative leaders, the way powerful real estate interests dole out campaign contributions, legal referrals and jobs to line politicians» pockets and maintain access, and how money is hidden by evading disclosure laws and funneling it through relatives, law firms and title fees.

The city Campaign Finance Board Wednesday found Mayor de Blasio broke no contribution limitation rules by raising unlimited donations through an outside fund — then immediately issued a de facto rebuke of the tactic.

This sort of behavior routinely happens in the campaign finance system, as developers donate to politicians through numerous holdings in order to circumvent the state's contribution limits.

It is alleged that the de Blasio Administration funneled money through Democratic county committees to evade campaign contribution limits.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

The Hedge Clippers report says that Cuomo's reelection campaign benefited from a loophole in New York campaign finance laws that allows wealthy donors, such as hedge fund executives, to exceed contribution limits by giving through multiple companies.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.