Sentences with phrase «wealthy developer»

Stern and the undercover FBI agent led the politicians involved to believe that they were wealthy developers looking for to curry favor and would use their economic resources to help Smith bribe his way into City Hall in exchange for political favors that would pave the way for their upstate development projects.

«Of course Ben Walsh doesn't want to do that because his donor list is replete with wealthy developers who got millions of taxpayer dollar benefits from when he was (SIDA's) executive director.»

Silver is also accused of getting more than $ 700,000 in a real estate scheme — he pocketed referral fees from law firms that did tax work for wealthy developers, which Silver sent their way, prosecutors said.

None other than Nikolei Drevin, wealthiest developer in the world, and the man who single - handedly is funding the first luxury hotel in outer space, Ark Angel.

The W.F.P. itself has also taken money from wealthy developers.

Additionally, Imperiale wants to prevent hyper - development in District 1, and believes that Council Member Chin has «sold out» communities within the district by favoring wealthy developers over everyday constituents.

«I make no apologies, none whatsoever, for making sure the project benefited residents and not wealthy developers,» Brown said.

The plan calls for the creation of low - equity housing cooperatives, reinvesting in NYCHA housing, developing community land trusts, creating tax abatements for developers and entrepreneurs who bring business into Central Brooklyn and hire local residents must be encouraged to hire locally, offering quality careers to residents and a moratorium on wealthy developers being allowed to buy up apartment buildings and leave the units vacant.

The 24 - page indictment largely reiterates the claims Mr. Bharara made last month: that Mr. Silver used his powerful position to steer wealthy developers with business before the state toward the law firm Goldberg and Iryami, and to funnel state money into a cancer research center that encouraged clients to retain the personal injury firm Weitz and Luxemburg — while the speaker received some $ 6 million in referral fees from both entities.

«This type of trickle - down development, which OCIDA continues to support time and time again, does not benefit our citizens and instead takes money away from the poorest people in our community to further enrich wealthy developers,» she said in a statement.

Opponents, however, allege that the some - versus - none argument advances the interests of wealthy developers and private equity firms that speculate on neighborhoods.

At noon, advocates and leaders will use a City Hall protest Friday to launch a major new campaign against his Goldman Sachs housing plan that favors a few wealthy developers while harming millions of New Yorkers.

Wealthy developer Josh Rales (D) is also flooding the airwaves with ads and former Baltimore County Executive Dennis Rasmussen (D) and American University professor Allan Lichtman (D) are both running active campaigns.

«The only thing Lovely Warren did to cause the continue rebirth of downtown is to keep giving wealthy developers and residents of downtown our tax dollars; meanwhile people in neighborhoods didn't get a break,» Barnhart told reporters.

Both Bill and Doug are long - time community organizers and are exactly what Baltimore needs to break the stranglehold the Democratic party machine has had for decades as well as the pay - to - play system that benefits wealthy developers and political insiders and leaves the citizens of this city out in the cold.

Real estate exec Paul Massey, a Republican, has said he is interested in uprooting the mayor, and wealthy developer Don Peebles — a one - time de Blasio donor — told The News he will likely run.

The wickedness Palo is capable of has ties to an organization for troubled youths where Lopez volunteered and whose chairman, wealthy developer Robert Calder (Harris Yulin), he warned of in his dying act.

Leading up to the June 2015 bill, Cuomo criticized the mayor's proposal, saying that it favored wealthy developers and only certain labor groups.

White rattled off a populist platform, spoke out against subsidies for wealthy developers, and about healing the racial divide.

Nix suggested one possible scenario, in which the managing director of Cambridge Analytica's political division, Mark Turnbull, would pose as a wealthy developer looking to exchange campaign finance for land.

His plush townhouse at Park Newport in Newport Beach, Calif. is paid for by Gerson Bakar, a wealthy developer and close friend.

One scenario described by Nix is employing someone to come in as a wealthy developer and offer a candidate a large amount of money in exchange for land.

With a telephone call to a wealthy developer last week, de Blasio waded into the battle over a planned $ 250 million arts center on a pier in the Hudson River, known as Pier 55 and often called Diller Island, for its major sponsor, the entertainment mogul Barry Diller.

Rent - regulated tenants and advocates rallied Wednesday outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo «s Manhattan office, accusing him of selling out to wealthy developers, WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported.

Everyone agrees it's broken and wealthy developers are getting too much for too little.

A federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy developer to boost the government's bribery case against former...

They have also been critical of tax credits issued to wealthy developers.

He campaign war chest dwarfs those of all of his rivals except Paladino, a wealthy developer who has pledged to spend $ 10 million on his campaign and is worth an estimated $ 150 million.

To most outsiders, the hearing is a highly unusual courtlike proceeding with a colorful and high - powered cast of characters, including a wealthy developer, former state attorney general, longstanding union leader and the state's top educator.

In another alleged scheme, prosecutors said Halloran agreed to direct city discretionary funding to Moses Stern, a wealthy developer cooperating with the government, and an FBI agent posing as his business partner in exchange for $ 24,800 in donations for his own failed congressional bid.

On the stand, the wealthy developer described his displeasure with the teachers» contract but did not admit to any wrongdoing in discussing it after it was approved.

Nix also said Cambridge Analytica could send someone posing as a wealthy developer to Sri Lanka to bribe politicians, film the encounter «and then post it on the internet.»

Nix suggested one possible scenario, in which the managing director of Cambridge Analytica's political division, Mark Turnbull, would pose as a wealthy developer looking to exchange campaign finance for land.

Mr. Nix then suggested they could have someone pose as a wealthy developer.

In one exchange filmed in January, Nix said Cambridge Analytica could send «somebody posing as a wealthy developer» to Sri Lanka to offer incumbent politicians a «large amount of money» in a «deal that's too good to be true,» such as for land.

The dissent expressed concern that wealthy developers would benefit the most from the Court's decision in this case, as they had the power to influence the legislature.