Sentences with phrase «whose political money»

Additionally, several hedge fund managers whose political money has primarily flowed to charter school supporters in the past continued to remain active.

Not exact matches

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

Businesses can certainly make money in countries whose stability depends on maintaining the political status quo.

The political message is that they — backed by wealthy bondholders and depositors — should have monetary power to decide whether or not to fund governments, whose spending should be financed by borrowing, not by fiat money creation.

As freelance journalist Wendy Siegelman and Business Insider reported in March, two members of the Mercer family — major backers of conservative political causes whose money and management was key to Cambridge Analytica from the beginning — have joined the board of Emerdata.

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

This is an essentially meaningless bill whose sole purpose is to score political points for its proponents, who have already wasted hours upon hours of taxpayer time and money pandering to the religious right with unnecessary initiatives and bills.

To protect his boss at critical junctures in his improbable political rise, Trump's longtime attorney, Michael Cohen, relied on intimidation tactics, hush money and the nation's leading tabloid news business, American Media Inc., whose top executives include close Trump allies.

Diana Reyna got her start as the protégé of former Kings County Dem chair Assemblyman Vito Lopez, whose Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Citizens Council is a legendary engine of political power and the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars of local and federal money.

Founded by real estate developers and business executives at Mr. Cuomo's urging shortly after he was elected governor, the committee has rapidly become the biggest spender on lobbying in Albany, providing not only critical backing for Mr. Cuomo but also a counterweight to the labor unions whose money and political muscle have traditionally dominated the Capitol.

Anybody can claim the money because the money belongs to everyone and belongs to nobody (apologies to the proponent of that political maxim, President Muhammad Buhari, whose whistle - blowing scheme is harvesting these discoveries in the first place).

VFGG was able to pay some of Foley's early political expenses after receiving money from Citizens for Democracy, a 527 group whose chairman is Larry J. Lawrence of Greenwich, the treasurer of Foley's 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial campaigns.

The rest of the money comes from unions, gun control organizations, and gun rights groups looking to boost the chances of the candidate whose political ideology best supports their own policy aims.

Apparently ignored by the media and the sheeple, much to my dismay, is the basic question of why a public utility, whose rates are allegedly regulated by the State, has extra money to throw around on political bribery?

De Blasio and his closest advisers have financed much of his political activity with money from the powerful real estate community, including developers whose projects need city approval.

Jr, whose mom, an employee of Espada's Soundview health clinic, pleaded guilty in 2004 to funneling state money designated for AIDS treatment into Espada's political campaign.

Mayoral control turned controversial primarily due to the political enmity between the Senate GOP and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose efforts to end the chamber's Republican majority have angered that conference and led to multiple investigations into his past practice of directing large sums of money into the campaign coffers of Democratic Senate candidates.

Sham charities are a way of political life in southeast Queens, where a number of elected officials are under investigation for steering money to groups they founded — and which were often staffed by cronies — and whose mission and spending is dubious.

«Nothing restores the faith of a people more than getting big money out of politics,» said the mayor, whose administration has been dogged by scandals involving political fund - raising and alleged favors done for big - money benefactors.

Mr. Espada, whose long - running battles with prosecutors and election officials are the stuff of political legend, also faces criminal investigations by federal prosecutors into possible money laundering and by the Bronx district attorney, who is looking into whether Mr. Espada actually lives in his Bronx Senate district, as required by law.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and his closest advisers have financed much of his political activity with money from the powerful real estate community, including developers whose projects need city approval.

Some of that debt is owed to its neighbor, China — whose economic and political influence many Mongolians fear, but seems poised to loan even more money to Mongolia.

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

The experience projected by Naming the Money is as much that of the migrant or émigré as the slave — people whose personal identities are undone and remade according to pressures exerted by global political and economic forces.