Sentences with phrase «timing of campaign contributions»

US Attorney Preet Bharara is reported to be probing contracts awarded as part of Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion project, with questions over the timing of campaign contributions to the governor, as well as criteria used to choose the vendors.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is reported to be probing contracts awarded as part of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion project, with questions over the timing of campaign contributions to the governor, as well as criteria used to choose the vendors.

Not exact matches

More dangerously, the awkward theory of «reimbursement» via retainer fees over time does not solve the problem of an illegal campaign contribution in 2016.

Matthew Sanderson, who served as a campaign finance lawyer for the 2008 McCain - Palin campaign, said the timing of the payment «strongly suggests it was related to the election, and therefore is either a contribution, or at least a reportable expenditure by the campaign».

Democratic politicians who have received campaign contributions from Harvey Weinstein are being called upon to return the money after the New York Times published an exhaustive story Thursday detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood super-producer.

In some cases, evidence of past incorrect opinion is sufficient: The CEO of the software firm Mozilla, Brendan Eich, was hounded from his post in 2014 for a $ 1,000 contribution to a 2008 California referendum campaign against gay marriage, evidence of a position he shared at the time with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

At the same time, however, the court allowed restrictions on contributions to stand, reasoning in part that giving funds to a campaign is only an indirect form of speech.

Chelsea have just 14 Premier League matches left to play this season, but speaking at a news conference ahead of Sunday's clash with Manchester United, Hiddink said he remains confident Pato will reach full fitness in time to make a meaningful contribution to the Blues» domestic and European campaigns.

The midfielder helped Chelsea to win the Premier League title last season but has struggled at times this campaign, although he did make a notable contribution in the 2 - 2 draw with West Ham United last weekend as he scored both of his side's goals.

At the same time, the attorneys argued evidence of the developers» campaign contributions to Cuomo should not be barred from being discussed at trial and are legally protected by the First Amendment.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

Supporters of the Governor say the last contributions made by the Jacobs family and their associates to the Cuomo campaign came no later than 2014, around the time Delaware North and ICE signed leases to occupy the same building.

Cuomo normally prefers to negotiate quietly with legislative leaders on proposals before actually writing legislation, but this time he's penned eight different versions of a bill to close the campaign donation loophole that allows unlimited contributions from limited liability companies and he's presented it to the legislature.

Under state law, the party committees, which can receive contributions often 10 times larger than candidates can directly, are permitted to move unlimited amounts of money into candidates» campaign accounts.

Scharff says she believes the timing is also right, the Occupy Wall Street movement has focused the debate on the influence of large corporations in society, and she says there's also been a lot of attention drawn to recent Supreme court decisions, like Citizens United, which ruled, essentially, that when it comes to campaign contributions, corporations are people, too.

The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption had begun an investigation into tax breaks like these and their connections to campaign contributions, but canceled a planned subpoena of REBNY's records after Cuomo's top adviser called one of the commission's chairs «in a fury,» according to the New York Times.

The June 25 event to raise funds for Mr. Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign includes a host committee reception, dinner and musical performance, and is set to occur five days after the scheduled end of the legislative session in Albany, by which time the governor has pledged to attain legislative action on campaign - finance reform, including lowering contribution limits.

-- FEDS INVESTIGATING MAJOR CUOMO DONOR — Times Union's Chris Bragg: «The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan is investigating Crystal Run Healthcare, a Hudson Valley company that received an extraordinary $ 25.4 million in state grants following a series of campaign contributions to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

For example, in her 2013 campaign for office, Gibson (who was at that time a member of the state Assembly) accepted contributions from 26 individual donors employed by SCAN New York.

A lot of times, and most of the time when it comes to campaign contributions, they're looking to influence the individual who is the beneficiary of their largesse,» Horner said.

Cuomo has been the top recipient of hedge fund campaign contributions, taking in $ 4.8 million in donations during his time as state attorney general and governor, a new «Hedge Clippers» report found.

The Brooklyn group, Time for Change Consulting, is run by Musa Moore, a pal of Norman from his days as party leader before he was jailed for accepting illegal campaign contributions during his Assembly races.

Cuomo normally prefers to negotiate quietly with legislative leaders on proposals before actually penning legislation, but this time he's written eight different versions of a bill to close the campaign donation loophole that allows unlimited contributions from limited liability companies (LLCs), and he's presented it to the legislature.

The report notes that one of these board members, Rob Speyer of Tishman Speyer, gave the maximum contribution to the Cuomo campaign during the 2010 cycle, $ 55,900, before incorporating what the New York Times has called the Governor's «secret slush fund» and pledging $ 1 million to the effort.

«A lot of times and most of the time when it comes to campaign contributions they're looking to influence the individual who is the beneficiary of their largesse.»

Scrutiny of Liu's fund - raising practices first surfaced in mid-September after The New York Times found his campaign account was flooded with large donations made by people who appeared unlikely to have the means to make such contributions.

Lawyer, lobbyist and political fixer, Harold Ickes, gave the re-election campaign committee of his pal, Mayor Bill de Blasio $ 19,250 in bundled contributions after his client A.E.G. Live won city permission to hold a music festival on Randall's Island, the NY Times reported.

De Blasio campaign spokesman Dan Levitan defended the timing of the solicitation, claiming Hizzoner «has received more low - dollar contributions from individual, everyday New Yorkers than any candidate for mayor — Democrat or Republican — in more than two decades.

Seymour also assured me that Dohney is indeed actively raising money for his 2012 bid, noting he only formally launched his campaign on Sept. 21, which didn't provide a lot of time to bring in contributions prior to the third quarter deadline.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Dinesh D'Souza to five years of probation, including eight months in a community confinement center, ordering no jail time for the conservative author and pundit who pleaded guilty to using straw donors to make an illegal campaign contribution.

Another time, Senator Bill Larkin and then Senator Joe Holland of Rockland County teamed up to paint a campaign contribution by an Assembly colleague as «proof» that I opposed the building of the Northeast Center for Special Care (I supported it then and have advocated on behalf of the center, it's patients, residents and staff many times since).

In 2012, when Gillibrand ran for re-election the first time, she received more than $ 15.4 million in campaign contributions, which was also far above that year's average fundraising total of $ 3.1 million.

The candidates are spending much of their time raising money to collect $ 250,000 in small contributions and qualify for millions in taxpayer campaign funds.

The U.S. Attorney and Manhattan DA are investigating whether the office of New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio knowingly violated campaign contribution laws by funneling donations for some upstate Senate races through county committees, which can accept donations 10 times higher than the limits on an individual Senate candidate.

We hear the city Department of Investigation and new Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is picking up where Bob Morgenthau left off, looking at a big - time developer who may have spread more than hefty campaign contributions around the Bronx.

This cut into the time in which Rob Astorino could play the populist and accuse him of doling out «massive corporate welfare» that came back to him in the form of $ 45 million in campaign contributions, and assert that Preet Bharara would soon present him with a pair of custom - made handcuffs.

Last week the Times Ledger reported that Barone Management made an unauthorized dumping in a large residential development in Northeast Queens, but what you may not know is that Senator Tony Avella, who denounced the dumping, has quietly accepted thousands of dollars of campaign contributions, according to CFB reports from the imprudent company as well as other entities which took part in the dumping.

Morse, who has taken 40 percent of his campaign contributions from the breakaway senate group the Independent Democratic Committee and told the Times Union earlier this month he did not recall some of his downstate donors, said he won't take contributions from those who lobby committees he oversees.

At the time, Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Bruno had been discussing a deal that would have imposed some form of new limits on campaign contributions, which was important to Mr. Spitzer.

The percentage of physicians making campaign contributions in federal elections increased to 9.4 percent in 2012 from 2.6 percent in 1991, and during that time physician contributors shifted away from Republicans toward Democrats, especially in specialties dominated by women or those that are traditionally lower paying such as pediatrics, according to a new study by Adam Bonica, Ph.D., of Stanford University, California, and colleagues.

When a 2008 initiative, Measure 10, which would have banned the use of tax money for campaigns or lobbying and restricted political contributions by government contractors was defeated, its committee chair Jim Anderson noted, «We'll be able to prepare accordingly next time, knowing that the real opposition to ethics reform in South Dakota is NEA union officials back east.»

Cabrera is also Excel Bridgeport's «Community Organizer» and while the Excel Bridgeport campaign finance reports show various reimbursements to Cabrera for supplies, they do not report any in - kind contribution of time.

Well, regretfully, to an ever - growing number of state and local legislators who don't seem to spend a whole lot of time thinking critical — unless of course it will lead to larger contributions to their campaign funding — it does.

A judge of the New York Surrogate's Court was censured for failing to properly report a campaign contribution from her long - time friend and mentor.

An examination of the Ohio Supreme Court by The New York Times found that its justices routinely sat on cases after receiving campaign contributions from the parties involved or from groups that filed supporting briefs.

However, the size of contributions, the degree of involvement in the campaign, the timing of the campaign and the proceeding, the issues involved in the proceeding, and other factors known to the judge may raise questions as to the judge's impartiality under paragraph (A).

Given the timing, the payoff to Daniels looks a lot like an unreported campaign contribution, which would constitute a crime under U.S. law, but Cohen insists that he simply paid the money from the goodness of his heart.