Sentences with phrase «with wealthy developers»

«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.»

Not exact matches

He has remained focused on creating a balanced approach to dealing with the city's growth challenges while taking on wealthy suburban developers, who declared war on him before his landslide re-election.

New York City has a rental control system designed to prevent the wealthy from exploiting the poor (with mixed results) and many other places in the U.S. have affordable housing system that creates some stock of affordable priced, price controlled housing at the expense of developer who want to sell market priced housing.

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.

The senator, who represents Queens Village, St. Albans and Jamaica, is accused of conspiring in November 2012 with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer to bribe city Republican leaders in order to win Wilson - Pakula certificates.

Real estate investment has long been the playground of the wealthy, with top developers becoming some of the richest people in the world.

He accused de Blasio of having failed «to put any significant dent into the homeless problem» and having engaged in «pay - for - play with wealthy real estate developers that should undercut his claim that he's a good government paragon.»

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.

According to a criminal complaint, Smith met with an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer and agreed to bribe leaders of Republican county committees around New York City.

State Conservative Chairman Michael Long, a Lazio supporter, described the nomination as the end of a combative phase in his relationship with Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo developer whose win in the Republican primary shocked many members of the GOP establishment.

He's come under regular fire in his first term from Democrats who claim he's out of step with his own party for his positions on labor issues, support for charter schools and coziness with wealthy real estate developers and financial firms.

Hatch, along with state Sen. Becky Lourey and wealthy developer Kelly Doran, plans to stay in the contest through the September primary no matter how the party convention turns out.

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.

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.

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.

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- New York Times bestseller, M.J. Rose Two years out of college, Angelica Bondesan spends her time working as a barista, keeping in touch with her prodigal brother, and trying to figure out how to bridge the gap with her father, a wealthy real estate developer.

At the upper echelon, the wealthy are hoping for green cards, joining with developers to take advantage of a federal program that puts them on the fast track for residency.

Casino mogul Sheldon Anderson was the next real estate player on the list with a net worth of $ 28.5 billion, followed by the U.S.'s wealthiest real estate developer, Donald Bren, and his $ 8.1 billion, according to Forbes.

Let's assume one property is owned by a recently widowed client who wants a passive income; one by a wealthy investor with a low tax basis and no mortgage; and one by a developer of a large equestrian ranch that is not selling, and foreclosure is in process on all his assets, including the condo which he borrowed against.

Personally, the wealthiest «investors» I know are actually commercial developers, property managers, and brokers (they run or ran a business and supplement their income with rentals).