To my reckoning, this is a slush fund within a slush fund when $10 billion worth of "National Defense Restoration" funds are directed into the off-budget OCO account.
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We're not here to create a slush fund for Donald Trump and his family, or a slush fund for the Treasury Department to be able to hand out to their friends.
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We're not here to create a slush fund for Donald Trump and his family, or a slush fund for the Treasury Department to be able to hand out to their friends.
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"We're not here to create a slush fund for Donald Trump and his family, or a slush fund for the Treasury Department to be able to hand out to their friends," Sen.
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"We're not here to create a slush fund for Donald Trump and his family, or a slush fund for the Treasury Department to be able to hand out to their friends," railed Sen.
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The staffer proposed a "slush fund" to pay them faster.
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Mr. Lee also denied that Lotte operated a slush fund.
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"There is no slush fund," acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said.
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"[OCO] has become nothing but a fancy slush fund," Corker said.
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Justin Amash (I-Mich.) spoke out against giving the Treasury secretary the power to direct the stimulus money as he sees fit: Let's not give Mnuchin a secret slush fund or even a regular slush fund.
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Well, this sure does give another meaning to the term "slush fund."
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Allegations of a PP slush fund have plagued the party for years.
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Shanahan denied that the Pentagon war fund has become a slush fund.
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"Cohen's slush fund is particularly unsavory, but it isn't entirely unique," Fischer added.
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We're here to help workers — Democrats start to call this a slush fund.
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We're here to help workers — Democrats start to call this a slush fund.
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"Indirect cost payments are not funny money or a slush fund," he said.
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Is the American Lung Association a crony improperly benefitting from a slush fund?
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Its civil penalty fund has served as a slush fund to reward friends.
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A Silver State Sweetener might be coming out of the leadership slush fund.
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The bill creates a $2628 billion slush fund, the Patient and State Stability Fund.
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Add in a targeted cut to a Defense Dept slush fund and that's it.
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Many have accused the Pentagon of using OCO as an all-purpose slush fund.
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called it a "slush fund" that was promptly rejected.
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"We're not here to create a slush fund for Donald Trump and his family, or a slush fund for the Treasury Department to be able to hand out to their friends," she said before the latest version of the bill was announced.
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As a result, states have started to use welfare reform money as a slush fund.
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" For instance, the community block grant program has become a "slush fund to big cities.
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The fund is not really a "slush fund," which implies a secret or illicit use.
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Nixon aides paid for the program with a substantial slush fund fed by unreported contributions.
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To its critics, it is a slush fund that will flood the sector with overcapacity.
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The C.I.A. also spent more than a decade financing a slush fund for Mr. Karzai.
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" And Kevin Mooney writing for the Daily Signal exposes a taxpayer funded "Congressional slush fund.
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Continuing the announcement extravaganza, Israel Secondary Fund launched a $100 million slush fund in early February.
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McConnell has a slush fund of "room" in the deal to make individual deals with senators.
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" Some might even go as far as to label OCO a "sham" or a "slush fund.
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The last version of the bill put that quasi-risk pool/slush fund at $182 billion.
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Like all of a sudden we find out that there is a slush fund for sexual harassment.
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Mr Bolton also promised extra penalties on Nicaragua's Bancorp, which he described as "the Ortega slush fund".
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This one provision, then, threatens to turn federal health care funding into a slush fund for states.
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The OCO account has been criticized for years by lawmakers in both parties as a slush fund.
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" At the top of it, though, is what Democrats are calling a $500 billion "corporate slush fund.
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A man who actually gives to charity instead of using charity as his own personal slush fund.
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The Volkswagen settlement is hardly the only such mitigation project (slush fund) created with EPA litigation agreements.
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Fiscal hawks have characterized OCO as a slush fund or budget gimmick to get around spending caps.
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A McConnell spokesman later told NBC News that the "hypothetical slush fund" would not go toward a wall.
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If the FCC distributes less than $4.5 billion then it squirrels away the remainder in a slush fund.
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Vigilant resistance to these changes is the only thing preventing the AML from turning into a slush fund.
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The United States sanctioned this slush fund in 2013 but did not sanction Khamenei personally until late June.
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That is why the Trade Adjustment Assistance "slush fund" was established in 1974 and has continued for decades.
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The Definitive Guide to Business It's one thing to work enough in college to cover your slush fund.
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer labeled that a "slush fund" that would lack the votes to pass Congress.
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And the OCO money, which some critics have described as a "slush fund," is exempt from sequestration caps.
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And he controlled a secret slush fund used to smear Democratic Presidential candidates deemed a threat to Nixon.
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" Torres held a hearing, in which he accused Cuomo of using the money as a "political slush fund.
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People familiar with the matter have said the raids were part of an investigation into a possible slush fund.
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This has effectively turned the OCO into a slush fund and allowed the gluttony to continue at taxpayer expense.
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You could imagine the Clintons using the foundation as a slush fund to reward their friends, or, alternatively, Mrs.
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Turning the Abandoned Mine Land fund into a slush fund jeopardizes ongoing reclamation work for short-term political favors.
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"It really isn't putting workers and small businesses first, and you've got a $500 billion slush fund," complained Sen.
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Last week, the Popular Party became the first Spanish political group to be convicted of operating a slush fund.
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Judges also ordered Mr. Rajoy's party to pay a fine of more than $285,000 for operating the slush fund.
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In his testimony, Mr. Rajoy denied that his political party, the conservative Popular Party, had operated a slush fund.
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In 2013, Mr. Rajoy called the slush fund documents "apocryphal," and he stuck to a similar line on Wednesday.
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Both houses should immediately release the names of every elected official who has taken advantage of this slush fund.
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The case ended up reaching several former high-ranking PP members and drew attention to the alleged party slush fund.
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Then, Lee Kun-hee, Samsung's chairman, had been indicted for his involvement in a multi-trillion-won slush-fund scandal.
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The Chinese are saying that office number 39, which is the Kim family slush fund is running low of cash.
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The basic idea is that you're not supposed to use campaign money as a personal piggy bank or slush fund.
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If giving states free rein to use the money as a slush fund doesn't uninsure millions, the cuts definitely will.
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"Nikolai said repeatedly in court that this money was a United Russia slush fund," Sandakov's lawyer, Kirill Akulich, told Reuters.
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Over the years, though, it has increasingly been used for base budget items, with critics calling it a slush fund.
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Additionally, as a political matter, a huge slush fund of money to prop up ObamaCare will be an abject disaster.
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Bryan Sartin, head of global security services at Verizon, said he encourages clients to create a slush fund with Bitcoin.
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Debunking the slush-fund ledger could also help build the case for a pardon of Mr. Manafort, Mr. Giuliani said.
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Do you really want to add more fuel to the fire of politics running on a slush fund of organized money?
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Critics, like the Libertarian Party, say a fund would discourage tax cuts or simply operate as a slush fund for lawmakers.
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"I would remind Secretary Price that taxpayer funds are not meant to be used as a jet-setting slush fund," Rep.
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Altogether, this GAO report recommends several common-sense solutions to the uncontrollable slush fund that OCO has been allowed to become.
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Some of the money was drawn from what the inquiry called a "slush fund" that was hidden from Olympus's official accounts.
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Democrats pushed for that IG to ensure transparency over the disbursement of the fund that they once dubbed a slush fund.
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However, this Fund bears more resemblance to a private slush fund for politicians than a fund to maintain and improve infrastructure.
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It can be used for political campaigns or receiving bribes, or as a slush fund encompassing a range of illicit activities.
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You can use it as a slush fund, to pursue a hobby, to travel more or to start a new business venture.
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You have to have this huge corporate slush fund to subsidize the fact you're going to lose money on a music business.
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They characterize the Foundation as a glorified Clinton political slush fund, dedicating only about 10 percent of expenditures to actual charity work.
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Obviously, Trump has proved the opposite—he's happy to run the government like a slush fund for his friends and his businesses.
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A slush fund of over $15 million was secretly created by Congress to paint over actions that ranged from disgusting to criminal.
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Ugh but OK. A billion-dollar slush fund for "distressed" industries but few protections that would keep workers from getting laid off?
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Within hours, Ms. Warren declared on Twitter that she would oppose the "giant slush fund" and urged other Democrats to join her.
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The irony of Sessions using the Edward Byrne slush fund to fire his warning shots at sanctuary cities isn't lost on his critics.
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Critics, including Trump's budget director Mick Mulvaney, have accused some Republicans of using it as a slush fund to irresponsibly boost defense spending.
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He did not clarify his party's stance on the reforms, which would involve launching a parliamentary investigation into an alleged PP slush fund.
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Now there is a fight about how to do oversight on loans to businesses so you make sure it's not a slush fund.
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While One Door for Education may have begun as an honest charity, it turned into a slush fund for all three, prosecutors said.
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Prepa has long dodged accusations that it created a slush fund by buying low-grade sludge and billing customers for high-grade oil.
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Democrats called this a "slush fund" that would give Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin broad authority to disburse the funds as he saw fit.
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Instead of filling in potholes, 88 percent of New York's gas-tax revenue was used as a slush fund, propping up lawmakers' overspending.
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Then look at all the deals made by the Dems in Congress, the 'Congressional Slush Fund,' and lastly the IG [inspector general] Reports.
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Opposition politicians in Malaysia have demanded that Mr. Apandi, the attorney general, prove that 1MDB was not used as Mr. Najib's political slush fund.
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Conservatives have previously derided the account as a "slush fund," including Mick Mulvaney, former White House budget director and now acting chief of staff.
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On the same day, Manafort's name is listed next to a $750,000 entry in the "black ledger," which was considered a party slush fund.
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He alleges she's using it as a "slush fund" to support her lifestyle and to wage a child custody war against him in court.
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The most famous early example was his vetting for VP under Eisenhower in 1952, when he was accused of running a shady slush fund.
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US prosecutors have alleged that Low and others used 1MDB as a slush fund, instead of its intended purpose to help develop Malaysia's economy.
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After the downfall of Mr Yanukovych, a book that contained records of payments made from a slush fund was passed to the security services.
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If a candidate used a secret slush fund to prevent damaging revelations from emerging during a campaign, he or she would be committing a crime.
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None of those donations went directly to the Reyes race, since super PAC money can't be earmarked, but rather into the group's nationwide slush fund.
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The scandal first erupted last fall, after Germany's Der Spiegel magazine published a report alleging the DFB had a slush fund to bribe FIFA officials.
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The trial follows a long-running investigation into an alleged party slush fund, centered around allegations that public contracts were awarded in exchange for kickbacks.
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That's a lot more like a slush fund than a well-defined risk pool for the true source of most of our health care spending.
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Duncan Hunter (R-CA), and the basic idea is that you're not supposed to use campaign money as a personal piggy bank or slush fund.
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Agents also used a multimillion-dollar slush fund meant to pay informants to instead pad their own pockets, The New York Times revealed last year.
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John Roth, the Defense Department's acting comptroller and chief financial officer, denied that the Pentagon was manipulating its fuel prices to create a slush fund.
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In June 2018, he unexpectedly became prime minister after seizing on a court ruling that found the Popular Party guilty of operating a slush fund.
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"I would remind Secretary Price that taxpayer funds are not meant to be used as a jet-setting slush fund," Pallone said in a statement.
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It's easy to imagine these payments becoming a slush fund used to make state budgets easier to manage, as has happened with previous block grant programs.
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The scheme was allegedly coordinated by college admissions adviser William Singer, who used a nonprofit as a "slush fund" for bribes as the WashPost characterized it.
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"(His) testimony does not appear as plausible enough to refute the strong evidence showing the existence of a slush fund in the party," the judge said.
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Calling the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account a "slush fund," Mulvaney acted to bring transparency to defense spending by sharply restricting the use of the OCO.
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Some Democrats referred to it as a "slush fund" because under the draft legislation, the Treasury Department would have the authority to dole out the funding.
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Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, accused Trump of having an "extramarital affair slush fund" and told ABC he believed similar payments had been made to other women.
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Officials and prosecutors have called 1MDB a slush fund, alleging that Mr. Najib siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars at the expense of the Malaysian people.
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" However, Senate Democrats have defended voting against the GOP bill, arguing the measure included multiple "non-starters" and calling it a $500 billion "corporate slush fund.
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The money has gone to waste, so much has been thrown away, it's all being used for dirty work, though it didn't come from a slush fund.
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Kim Kwang Jin says the luxury stores are part of the secretive Office 39 -- a group the US government describes as a slush fund for the regime.
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"A $1 billion slush fund is not what is right, what the American people want, and it couldn't get votes in either House to pass," he added.
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But he apparently forgot his vote in 2015 for a similar "slush fund" to compensate workers and farmers harmed by the very free-trade agreements he supports.
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"A $1 billion slush fund is not what is right, what the American people want, and it couldn't get votes in either house to pass," he added.
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"It has served as a slush fund for weapons, terror and oppression, and to further line the pockets of corrupt regime leaders," he said in a statement.
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The New York Times revealed last year that one major investigation spawned a multimillion-dollar slush fund for agents to tap for both business and personal expenses.
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"We see this giant slush fund that Steven Mnuchin has a lot of authority over with limited strings attached," Ms. Miller said, referring to the Treasury secretary.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars in unfrozen assets flowed to Iran, a radical Islamist regime that was pleased to have a terror slush fund at its disposal.
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Azerbaijan's ruling elite ran a secret $2.8 billion slush fund for two years to pay off European politicians and pay for luxury purchases, an investigation has shown.
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The CSF, seen by Pakistan as reimbursement for operations conducted by its troops inside Pakistan, has served as a slush fund that Islamabad uses to farm terrorism.
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Prosecutors are investigating a private auto parts maker run by Lee Myung-bak's family over allegations that the company was operating a slush fund for the former president.
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"International sanctions on North Korea have made it extremely difficult to earn foreign cash, and the slush fund is now running out," one of RFA's Chinese sources said.
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One solution to the funding gap suggested by congressional Republicans is to raise the $58.8 billion Overseas Contingency Operations budget, a useful slush fund, by about $15 billion.
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The funds are intended to be used for the country's wars in the Middle East, but critics, including some Republicans, have derided OCO as a military slush fund.
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Only legislative action from Congress can ensure that civil asset forfeiture is used to crack down on crime rather than as a slush fund for law enforcement budgets.
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Prosecutors are looking into a possible slush fund as well as breach of trust involving transactions among the group's companies, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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Because OCO funds don't apply to budget caps, budget watchers say Congress has frequently used it as a "slush fund" for projects that don't fit under budget caps.
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The Trump administration did own up to something Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) and other budget watchdogs have been saying for years: OCO is a giant slush fund.
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Mr. Rajoy was not accused of any wrongdoing, but he used his court appearance to deny emphatically that illegal payments had been made from a party slush fund.
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Republicans argued the term "slush fund" was wildly inappropriate in this situation, while also pointing out that the current economic crisis is not at all comparable to 2008.
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Here's why: while nurses are being forced to make their own masks and gowns, McConnell and Trump are busy creating a taxpayer-funded slush fund for their buddies.
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The inspector general for what Democrats initially bashed as a corporate "slush fund" will be confirmed by the Senate, just like any inspector general, according to the official.
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Mr. White applauds the action by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, writing that the decision will drain the "slush fund" created by the Obama administration for its favored groups.
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Yankah said he is worried the settlement could wind up as just a general slush fund for states, similar to what happened with the tobacco settlement in 1997.
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What began as a way to catch black-market cigarette dealers quickly transformed into a nearly untraceable A.T.F. slush fund that agents from around the country could tap.
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He rightly complains that the money for this, which should be largely for fighting current wars, has been abused as a slush fund to get around the budget caps.
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If you donate to everything people ask you to donate to on Facebook, you will lose your entire life savings to some random state senator's South Dakota slush fund.
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Instead, the White House says it can offset those cuts to the Pentagon by parking a huge amount of money in a controversial slush fund that sequestration can't touch.
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Over the years, OCO has increasingly been used to fund programs previously included in the main defense budget, leading to criticism that it essentially operates as a slush fund.
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Few Democrats will work for a bill to provide the president with a slush fund to regain the favor of supporters alienated by his health care and tax efforts.
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Senate Democrats are wary of creating an even bigger "slush fund" for the Trump administration to dole out payments to agricultural producers without guardrails, according to a Democratic aide.
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The Socialist party, headed by Pedro Sánchez, 46, pounced on a significant corruption court ruling last week that found Mr. Rajoy's Popular Party guilty of operating a slush fund.
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A Mexican subsidiary of SAP then falsely recorded the slush fund as legitimate discounts on its books, which were later consolidated into SAP's own financial statements, the SEC said.
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US officials have long maintained that the money from ventures like this goes straight into North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's notorious nuclear slush fund, known as Office 39.
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South Korean prosecutors are looking into a possible slush fund as well as breach of trust involving transactions among the group's companies, people familiar with the matter have said.
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The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP, or "food stamps") will be slashed and turned over to states, which will likely use the money as a slush fund for other endeavors.
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" Over the years, the fund has become a prime target for Republicans, who generally regard public health as paternalistic and have called the program a "slush fund for jungle gyms.
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Lawmakers from both parties are outraged, and most think there's no chance Congress would approve of Trump parking more than $100 billion in the slush fund, as his budget proposes.
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I multiply my regular check amount by 1.12 to find my increased check amount, and then transfer over the rest to my "savings" account which is really a slush fund.
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Major provisions subject to repeal included the mandates on individuals and employers, the medical device tax, the tax on high cost employer-sponsored health plans and the ObamaCare Slush Fund.
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Using documents found following the revolution in 2014, Serhiy Leshchenko alleges that Manafort paid himself $85033,000 out of the party's slush fund by forging invoices in a ledger to Belize.
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Attorney General Sessions is also likely to cut off a political slush fund administered by the Department of Justice that funnelled an estimated $3 billion to left-wing activist organizations.
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Khamenei, Pompeo alleged, maintains a personal off-the-books hedge fund worth $95 billion, that is untaxed and used as a "slush fund" by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Crops (IRGC).
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One analyst called the $2 billion flexible spending request a Pentagon "slush fund," and many lawmakers were expected to be reluctant to loosen oversight over how the Pentagon spends money.
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This is a man whose own foundation, the Trump Foundation, has recently been accused in news reports of breaking the law by being used essentially as a political slush fund.
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A close reading of the legislative language in the Continuing Resolution reveals that the House Appropriations Committee proposed yet another slush fund for the Pentagon: The National Defense Restoration Fund.
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Democrats had criticized the initial proposal as a "slush fund" that provided no mechanisms for accountability and allowed the Trump administration to withhold details about which companies received such loans.
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During their history-making run, the duo misreported that a grand jury had received specific testimony about a secret slush fund controlled by Nixon's chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman.
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After President Trump's victory, some politicians in Ukraine criticized the public release by prosecutors of the slush fund records, saying the move would complicate Ukraine's relations with the Trump administration.
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The Fed loan program, which Democrats bashed as a corporate bailout program and Mnuchin's "slush fund," was one of the biggest sticking points during the late rounds of the negotiations.
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Pentagon officials deny that the fuel accounts are being used as a slush fund, arguing that lawmakers have approved requests to use money from such accounts to balance agency budgets.
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In his ruling, the judge said there was evidence the party ran a slush fund for many years and that the credibility of Rajoy's testimony denying it "should be questioned".
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The million dollar question remains: are these funds and assets being used for legitimate law enforcement activities, or do they simply become a slush fund with little or no accountability?
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However, the NDF has been used as a slush fund for the IRGC-QF, which has, for years, received hundreds of millions of dollars in cash disbursements from the NDF.
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It relies on using the emergency Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account - derided by conservatives as a slush fund - to skirt spending caps set out in a 2011 fiscal restraint law.
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The Obama administration, in response, attempted to create an extra-legal slush fund to aid insurers, using billions in taxpayer dollars they weren't authorized by the ACA to use. Sen.
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But Republican critics say the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which amounts to 12% of CDC's budget, is a "slush fund" that has been spent on Zumba classes and massage sessions.
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But one frat member told the grand jury that a slush fund was created to purchase alcohol, with members kicking in $250 so they could drink alcohol at fraternity social events.
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He would move fast to "block-grant" food stamps and Medicaid, transforming them from guarantees of food and medical care for the nation's poorest people into a slush fund for states.
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He would move fast to block-grant food stamps and Medicaid, transforming them from guarantees of food and medical care for the nation's poorest people into a slush fund for states.
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According to recent research by Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the habit of using OCO as a slush fund for non-war spending has continued unabated.
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By September, they had uncovered a secret slush fund used by former CRP head and Attorney General John Mitchell to investigate Democrats, and by October they knew about Segretti's sabotage efforts.
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"What we're really talking about here is the establishment of a slush fund to hide what's happening with defense spending and get it out from underneath the statutory caps," Warren said.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called the bucket of money a 'slush fund to boost favored companies and corporate executives -- while they continue to pull down huge paychecks and fire their workers.
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The final blow was when a bitcoin exchange operator and alleged money launderer was arrested in Greece and $2228 million disappeared, including most of RAMP's slush fund to pay mercenary hackers.
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" Over the next few weeks, he said, Mr. McConnell "will try to use a slush fund to buy off Republicans, cut back-room deals, to try and get this thing done.
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Friday's raids on Lotte Group headquarters, Hotel Lotte and other Lotte companies were part of an investigation into a possible slush fund, three people with direct knowledge of the matter have said.
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Now, this practice has turned into a massive "slush fund" for local cops — one that gets used for everything from buying armored cars and military weapons to $600 coffeemakers and party clowns.
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Rather than simply repealing the ACA, they provided inadequate tax credits to help individuals pay their premiums and a huge tax-financed slush fund to provide catastrophic coverage for the sickest Americans.
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She was so smitten that she funneled another $725,000 into a slush fund for the candidate's private use; the campaign used it to keep his mistress, Rielle Hunter, and their baby secret.
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Lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled tougher oversight plans for the massive business bailout program at the heart of the latest coronavirus stimulus bill, after Democrats attacked the measure as an unchecked slush fund.
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And Trump wants our response to be a half-trillion dollar slush fund to boost favored companies and corporate executives – while they continue to pull down huge paychecks and fire their workers.
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"The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund that was administered by Michael Cohen and that he would just be expected to take care of these things," he said on ABC.
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Prosecutors alleged that Duffy bilked taxpayers for housing expenses, set up a slush fund to hand contracts to his friends, took money in exchange for political favours, and abused his political office.
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Senate Leader Mitch McConnell raged and blamed Democrats, while Democrats fumed over the legislation's $500 billion, opaque Treasury slush fund to be handed out to corporations at Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's discretion.
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Farenthold "who now it's come out that he paid out $84,000 out of this slush fund, I don't hear people asking Speaker Ryan why he's not calling for his resignation," Bustos said.
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But this annual budget is separate from the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, which has been described as a war-making slush fund and has added $1.8 trillion to military spending since 2001.
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What began as a way to catch black-market cigarette dealers quickly transformed into a nearly untraceable slush fund that agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives could tap.
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They'll want something in return for cooperating with Democrats on health policy, and the public health fund (derided as a slush fund by the GOP) and the unpopular IPAB are obvious targets.
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The secret recordings in Madrid's Majadahonda municipality controlled by the People's Party (PP) culminated in a High Court investigation into allegations the party's top brass had a slush fund bankrolled by friendly businesses.
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The recent attacks Democrats have leveled against Kraninger are only a prelude to their fight to keep an iron grip on an agency that serves as a political slush fund for their allies.
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Leaders of the PP will meet on Wednesday, when they are widely expected to endorse the Ciudadanos plan, even though it would involve launching a parliamentary investigation into an alleged PP slush fund.
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Remember, when confronted with the pattern of wealthy interests making mega donations to the Clinton's slush fund charity and major governmental decisions beneficial to those countries, their response was "we have no proof".
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The trial at the Spanish High Court follows several long-running graft investigations into allegations that the conservative People's Party (PP) used a slush fund to illegally finance campaigns, which the party denies.
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Over time, the OCO designation has come to serve as the Pentagon's "slush fund," allowing for increases in the budget as needed without the added transparency or accountability of the regular budget process.
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Ri, a high-profile North Korean defector, spent years working for what is essentially a slush fund for one of the most notorious regimes on the planet, Kim Jong Un and his compatriots.
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Partly working on tips resulting from the sibling squabble, prosecutors raided Lotte offices in June to collect evidence of a slush fund the group was accused of creating through illegal deals among subsidiaries.
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Basically, Trump used his foundation as a slush fund to buy himself neat stuff, from a $12,000 autographed football helmet and matching jersey to an undoubtedly tasteful $20,000 6-foot painting of himself.
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The payment to Mr. Louis-Dreyfus raised questions about corruption and the potential existence of a slush fund at the federation, threatening to bring down some of the biggest names in German sports.
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The disparity, the theory goes, created a spread between two prices that would have been multiplied across millions of barrels of oil for nearly 30 years, giving rise to a big slush fund.
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As Senate Democrats went to the floor Sunday night to vote — the first time they'd been there in days — they had one thing on their minds: a secret "slush fund" for Corporate America.
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Last year, Mr. Sánchez maneuvered to oust Mr. Rajoy in an unexpected vote of no confidence in Parliament timed to an unprecedented court ruling against Mr. Rajoy's party for operating a slush fund.
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They're fighting against efforts led by congressional Republicans and conservatives, who want to block any potential money going to the fund that the Obama administration's critics see as a wasteful international slush fund.
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But he was pushed out after anticorruption authorities in Ukraine disclosed that Mr. Manafort may have been paid $12.7 million from an illegal slush fund maintained by his client, the Party of Regions.
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POLITICO congressional reporter Elana Schor gives a rundown of 3 Things to know about Capitol Hill sexual harassment, including what to know about the 'slush fund' that is used to settle some cases.
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The Popular Party has been under investigation, on suspicion of operating a slush fund, since the arrest in 2013 of its former party treasurer, Luis Bárcenas, who amassed millions in secret Swiss bank accounts.
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Related: Canada Slaps New Sanctions on 'Office 39,' North Korea's Slush Fund for Kim Jong-un An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council was called after Thursday's launch, according to the BBC.
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The payment in question triggered several investigations and led to Niersbach's resignation over allegations it was used as a slush fund to buy votes in favor of Germany's bid to host the 2006 tournament.
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The graft case, which relates to the use of a slush fund by the PP in the 1990s and early 2000s to illegally finance campaigns, has plagued Rajoy since he took office in 2011.
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The availability of the money as a kind of slush fund for states — if only they don't use it on actual welfare — additionally creates an incentive for states to discourage potential beneficiaries from applying.
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The FBI learned that the Dimitrions were telling victims that their "money was going into an escrow account, but really that money was going into a Dimitrion slush fund account," said special agent Simpson.
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And his pal former Mayor Michael Nutter honed a squeaky-clean image as an ethics nut but is currently taking heat over what critics allege was a mayoral slush fund raided by close associates.
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The case, which relates to the use of a slush fund by the Conservatives in the 1990s and early 2000s to illegally finance campaigns, has plagued Rajoy since he came to power in 2011.
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In the budget plan sent to Capitol Hill on Monday, President Donald Trump proposed adding some $100 billion dollars to a "slush fund" set aside for what the Pentagon calls "Overseas Contingency Operations" (OCO).
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Without effective oversight, however, the funds allotted to the bloc's newest members — all provided by European taxpayers — have often become a lavish slush fund for political insiders, helping them amass wealth and consolidate power.
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They had planned to question him as they considered charges of embezzlement and breach of trust in connection with the alleged slush fund for Mr. Shin and helping him and his father evade taxes.
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Speaking to the press shortly after McConnell, Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said he had rejected the Republicans' proposal because it contained a $1 billion "slush fund" for Trump's immigration policies.
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Senate Democrats had attacked the entity as a "slush fund" under the initial Senate GOP proposal, which had no congressional regulation and allowed Mnuchin to withhold information on who received loans for six months.
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The payment in question triggered several investigations and led to Niersbach's resignation over allegations it was used as a slush fund to buy votes in favour of Germany's bid to host the 2006 tournament.
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In 2016, while Mr. Manafort was chairman of the Trump campaign, anti-corruption prosecutors in Ukraine disclosed that a pro-Russian political party had earmarked payments for Mr. Manafort from an illegal slush fund.
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The availability of the money as a kind of slush fund for states — only if they don't use it on actual welfare — additionally creates an incentive for states to discourage potential beneficiaries from applying.
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"The slush fund is open," said Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the senior Democrat on the Finance Committee, referring to about $200 billion that could be available for deals in the Senate repeal bill.
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But after the 1952 presidential campaign, when the revelation of his secret slush fund nearly led Dwight Eisenhower to drop him as his running mate, Nixon viewed reporters with a suspicion bordering on paranoia.
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That budget included $100 billion in a "slush fund" meant to fund ongoing wars but which the Pentagon intends to use to boost the amount of money it has available to avoid budget caps.
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"Those transactions treat Tether's cash reserves as Bitfinex's corporate slush fund, and are being used to hide Bitfinex's massive, undisclosed losses and inability to handle customer withdrawals," Attorney General James' office argued in a release.
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A prosecution team of about 200 people raided Lotte offices in June, looking into a possible slush fund as well as breach of trust involving transactions among the group's companies, sources said at the time.
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Prosecutors targeted Lotte with their largest corporate raids ever in terms of manpower in June, looking into a possible slush fund as well as breach of trust involving transactions among the group's companies, sources said.
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Given the damage Pruitt had already done to the planet and his use of the EPA as a sort of college frat–style slush fund—he actually leveraged his power to cop NCAA basketball tickets!
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And as if this new bailout slush fund for insurers wasn't bad enough, the House bill also failed to repeal ObamaCare's risk corridors—a marked step backward from where Congress was just two years earlier.
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What work product did the companies expect for their money, were they effectively paying into a slush fund, or was it a case of paying the toll for access to the ear of the president?
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Congress passes spending bills without allowing for real debate and consideration of our current wars, and the war spending account has been used as a slush fund for pet projects of the Pentagon and Congress.
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The ledger, an accounting document thought to detail a Party of Regions slush fund, apparently listed $12.7 million in under-the-table payments to Manafort from 2007 to 85033, according to The New York Times.
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Senate Democrats were quick to blast the move, saying Republicans are only attacking the speaker because they don't have an adequate rebuttal to Democratic accusations of a corporate "slush fund" being pushed by the GOP.
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Democrats fumed that such a $500 billion "slush fund," tightly and secretly controlled by the president and his top aides, could be easily abused, or awarded to GOP political donors with almost no outside accountability.
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Last week's verdicts in the corruption case made Mr. Rajoy's party the first Spanish political force to be convicted of operating a slush fund and ordered to pay a fine, 245,000 euros, or about $285,000.
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President Trump doubled down on the claim that he's not responsible for campaign finance violations by Michael Cohen on Fox News Thursday, saying that investigators should be looking at Congress' "slush fund" for campaign violations instead.
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The downside of too little cash for an unexpected car repair or a sports tournament 248 miles away is that investors are often forced to treat their 403(k) like a piggy bank or slush fund.
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"Fundamentally, this is a slush fund of money taken from private citizens that law enforcement officials are allowed to use for their own purposes," said Robert McNamara, a senior attorney with the libertarian Institute for Justice.
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"Through sanctioning PdVSA, the United States has also sanctioned Nicaragua's ALBANISA, the government's joint venture with PdVSA and slush fund of the corrupt regime of Daniel Ortega," the White House's John Bolton said in a tweet.
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"The Department of Homeland Security has separated thousands of children from their parents, denied asylum to those fleeing danger, and used taxpayers dollars as a slush fund to incite terror in immigrant communities," the statement reads.
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But powerful labor unions like the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) and American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employee union have turned this publicly funded assistance and other programs into effectively their own personal slush fund.
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Also not widely noted, the blueprint would add an additional $77 billion to the defense Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account — an account that Mulvaney, when he was a member of Congress, characterized as a slush fund.
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Republicans say that some states have used the prevention fund as a slush fund, and that some consumers have abused the grace period to obtain a full year's coverage while paying premiums for only nine months.
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It led to Niersbach's resignation in 2015 over allegations made by Der Spiegel magazine that the payment was used as a slush fund to buy votes in favour of Germany's bid to host the 2006 tournament.
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Read this months-long investigation by CNN about how such front companies along with military cooperation and elite-forces training deals with Mozambique is funneling cash money straight into Kim Jong Un's notorious nuclear slush fund.
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Between 2016 and 2019, he served as the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, a massive business conglomerate with a real estate portfolio worth an estimated $20 billion, which effectively functions as a slush-fund for Khamenei.
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Allegations of a PP slush fund have plagued the party for years and have resurfaced as part of the sprawling trial, which was originally centered on illegal dealings between small city councils and a network of businesses.
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The Kentucky Republican proposed an appropriations bill that includes money for border security fencing, as well as what a Senate Democratic aide described as a $1 billion "slush fund" that Trump could use on his immigration policies.
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The Kentucky Republican proposed an appropriations bill that includes money for border security fencing, as well as what a Senate Democratic aide described as a $20183 billion "slush fund" that Trump could use on his immigration policies.
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The big picture: Trump's budget won't balance in 10 years, and it uses a controversial Pentagon "slush fund" to give Trump a $750 billion military budget without exceeding the spending caps imposed under a 2011 budget law.
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The president's personal lawyer–slash–consigliere extracting millions of dollars from major corporations with business before the government and depositing it into a slush fund that he used to pay women who apparently had affairs with Trump.
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He committed billions of dollars of taxes paid by American families to an international slush fund for third world countries, and set his agencies loose to suppress American industry regardless of the costs imposed on working families.
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Lankford is using the transfer to support his contention that Obama has always had the funds needed to fight Zika, but chose instead to prioritize the climate fund, which Republicans have painted as a wasteful slush fund.
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"When a member uses his campaign account as a slush fund for his own personal use while earning a congressional salary, it raises damning ethical questions," said Jermaine House, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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Those who favor fiscal responsibility call the use of the Overseas Contingency Operations designation a "slush fund," while others claim that without OCO, the DOD could not operate functionally under the current Budget Control Act (BCA) caps.
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That's a terrible idea, Leydon told the crowd at Code/Media last week, because almost all brand advertising is nothing more than a slush fund that feeds lazy advertisers, publishers and networks, who want to avoid accountability.
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The slush fund, which was exposed in 303, was seen by many American diplomats and other officials and experts as fueling the rampant corruption that has undermined the American effort to build a functioning democracy in Afghanistan.
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OCO has been used as a slush fund not only to pay for those wars, but also to fund tens of billions of dollars in Pentagon pet projects that have nothing to do with our current conflicts.
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It also coincided with the start on Tuesday of another corruption trial into allegations some of the PP's senior members had a slush fund bankrolled by friendly businesses Reporting by Emma Pinedo, Sarah White Editing by Jeremy Gaunt
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I asked a senior White House official how it wasn't hypocritical for Mulvaney to now support dramatically increasing the OCO slush fund when he'd previously railed against its misuse when he was a fiscally conservative member of Congress.
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Emails among members of Trump's innermost circle show that the "foundation" was not a separate entity or a proper charity but allegedly just another slush fund from which Trump could pay people for his personal and political benefit.
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At the height of a corruption scandal five years ago, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain denied his party had operated a slush fund, shortly after his former treasurer was found to have hidden millions in Swiss banks.
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Still, Mr. Casado's priority will be to reunite his own party, which was left bruised and fractured by the abrupt and unexpected ouster of Mr. Rajoy a week after his party was sentenced for operating a slush fund.
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"Leader Schumer and I have said that we cannot accept the offer they made of a billion-dollar slush fund for the president to implement his very wrong immigration policies, so that won't happen," Ms. Pelosi told reporters.
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Stormy Daniels's mongoose of a lawyer, Michael Avenatti, revealed on Twitter that the slush fund Cohen used to pay the adult actress was being funded in part by a Russian oligarch, who was questioned by Robert Mueller's team.
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In addition, there are longstanding accusations that Prepa's fuel-purchasing office for many years bought dirty oil sludge as fuel, charged consumers the much higher price of cleaner distillates, and then created a slush fund with the difference.
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"What we're really talking about here is the establishment of a slush fund to hide what's happening with defense spending and get it out from underneath the statutory caps," Warren said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
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He points to reports, like this Radio Free Asia piece from December citing two Chinese sources with ties to Pyongyang, that the illicit slush fund North Korea uses to fund its nuclear program — called Office 39 — is dangerously depleted.
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Even the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, the Pentagon's emergency fund which can be used for "a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty," often derided as a "slush fund," isn't a blank check.
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The North Koreans were employees of the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation (KOMID), a branch of the state linked to the Workers' Party's secretive Office 39, a slush fund for assets used by the higher-echelons of the government.
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"I would remind Secretary Price that taxpayer funds are not meant to be used as a jet-setting slush fund," Representative Frank Pallone Jr., the top-ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statement.
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Kim's personal 'slush fund' "They earn a lot of dollars and cash from these luxurious department stores by selling all these goods and they re-allocate these dollars into their priorities like the nuclear and missile program," he said.
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"Our message is simple: We're asking that Congress cut, not increase, spending on detention facilities, stop using DHS as a slush fund, and include stronger accountability against DHS abuses under Donald Trump's watch," Omar reportedly told The Daily Beast.
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More concerning is that yesterday, the City Controller published the findings of a public audit into a nonprofit fund that he claims was a slush fund for the former Mayor who has been out of office for eight months.
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Three people with direct knowledge of the matter said the raids were part of an investigation into a possible slush fund, dealing a new blow to the hotel unit's planned IPO, which could be the world's biggest this year.
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Among those who have criticized the overseas operations budget category as a "slush fund" is Mick Mulvaney, a Republican former congressman who served as Mr. Trump's first budget director and is now the acting White House chief of staff.
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Pedro Sánchez took over as prime minister from Mariano Rajoy after winning a vote of no confidence in Parliament that was prompted by Mr. Rajoy's party's becoming the first political force to be convicted of operating a slush fund.
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After a court ruling found that Mr. Rajoy's party had benefited from a slush fund, Mr. Sánchez orchestrated a parliamentary revolt, winning the backing of a majority of lawmakers to oust Mr. Rajoy through a vote of no confidence.
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"You could tell right away it was basically a slush fund," said Lukas Herbert, who was ousted from the local community board in 2006 after he voted against the stadium and now works as a city planner in Westchester.
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After being used by Trump as a personal slush fund -- for money to settle legal disputes, for buying life-sized paintings of himself, and for engaging in campaign publicity stunts in Iowa -- the Trump Foundation is now being dissolved.
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He did not elaborate, but a Democratic aide granted anonymity to discuss the private talks said the White House offered $2.5 billion — an initial $2.1 billion plus $400 million Democrats called a "slush fund" for the president's other immigration priorities.
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But thanks to the recent UN Security Council sanctions, Canada is joining the US, United Kingdom, and European Union — which all listed the clandestine government body more than five years ago — in putting new restrictions on Kim's personal slush fund.
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"Those transactions — which also have not been disclosed to investors — treat Tether's cash reserves as Bitfinex's corporate slush fund, and are being used to hide Bitfinex's massive, undisclosed losses and inability to handle customer withdrawals," the attorney general's office said.
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Trump called for defense spending to rise by 4 percent to $750 billion, using the emergency Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account - derided by conservatives as a slush fund - to skirt spending caps set out in a 2011 fiscal restraint law.
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"What we're really talking about here is the establishment of a slush fund to hide what's happening with defense spending," said Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, during an unusually combative Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
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At the same time, any "profits" that they generate are regularly swept by the Treasury (rather than retained as operating capital) into a general "slush fund" that is used to fund the administration's pet projects or to mask larger deficits.
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To get that huge amount of money without breaking the mandatory spending limits, the White House supports the controversial idea of the Pentagon dramatically increasing a war fund called "Overseas Contingencies Operations (OCO), which critics describe as a "Pentagon slush fund.
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"The Department of Homeland Security has separated thousands of children from their parents, denied asylum to those fleeing danger, and used taxpayers' dollars as a slush fund to incite terror in immigrant communities," the four lawmakers said in a statement.
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Handwritten payment records discovered after that revolution suggest that Mr. Manafort was compensated, at least in part, from a party slush fund of off-the-books political contributions, pointing to one possible origin of the money described in the federal indictment.
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Both lawmakers asserted that if the release of the slush fund information broke the law, then it should be viewed as an illegal effort to influence the United States presidential election in favor of Hillary Clinton by damaging the Trump campaign.
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"[W]hen the administration requested that $1.9 billion supplemental, which was just almost a slush fund across the government, the money could be used for any purpose," House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers said in April, according to USA Today.
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The result was, effectively, a $500 billion slush fund designed to be doled out at the sole discretion of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, with no independent oversight, state aid, or way of disclosing who had received corporate aid for six months.
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The Popular Party was then accused of using a slush fund in the 1990s and early 2000s to illegally finance campaigns after its former treasurer, Luis Bárcenas, was found in 3503 to have hidden millions in secret Swiss bank accounts.
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This month, Trump paid $2 million to eight charities after a New York judge ruled that he and his family had used the now defunct Trump Foundation as a slush fund to bolster his campaign and pay off business expenses.
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He survived a brush with scandal over a campaign slush fund filled by wealthy businessmen with a now-legendary televised address, in which he made memorably mawkish mention of his mortgage, his wife's cloth coat, and the family cocker spaniel, Checkers.
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According to three people who know him, the governor left himself vulnerable to the bribery charges because he was involved in accumulating money for a slush fund designed to help improve the chances of United Russia, which was founded by President Vladimr Putin.
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Trump also calls for defense spending to rise more than 4 percent to $750 billion, using the emergency Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account - derided by conservatives as a slush fund - to skirt spending caps set out in a 20113 fiscal restraint law.
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"The Protect Life Rule simply draws a bright line between abortion and family planning, stopping abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood from treating Title X as their private slush fund without reducing funding by a dime," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.
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His paper later exposed a secret offensive by the authorities against the mainstream news media in which a slush fund was used to establish a government-friendly newspaper, The Citizen, to counter The Rand Daily Mail and to buy stakes in other publications.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been called to stand as a witness in a trial of members of his ruling People's Party (PP) following a long investigation into an alleged party slush fund, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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Investigators discovered during the course of the scandal that the Nixon campaign had effectively run a shakedown operation against major American companies, extracting millions in illegal donations for a re-election slush fund by threatening greater IRS scrutiny or promising favorable regulatory treatment.
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Investigators in Japan are also looking into a Dutch subsidiary of the Nissan-Renault alliance that Mr. Kelly allegedly used as a slush fund to pay for some of Mr. Ghosn's luxurious homes and other expenses related to a high-flying executive lifestyle.
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Then, when Mr. Rajoy's conservative Popular Party was tarnished by corruption — a court last week found the party guilty of operating a slush fund — he pounced, assembling parliamentary backing for a vote of no confidence in Mr. Rajoy, which passed on Friday.
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The case, which began eight years ago with allegations that local party officials had taken bribes, later snowballed into several parallel investigations, including one into whether the party's national treasurer used a slush fund for his own benefit and that of colleagues.
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Four weeks before the election, his political opponents -- you could call them the vast right-wing conspiracy -- initiated a lawsuit alleging that he had maintained a slush fund as governor that he used to entertain five women with whom he supposedly had sexual relationships.
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In fact, there are years' worth of anecdotal evidence that the OCO account has been misused, by both Republican and Democratic administrations, as a slush fund to avoid both scrutiny and the budget caps put in place by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA).
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All we can say for sure, then, is that with a proposed $137 billion infrastructure slush fund reserved entirely for private developers, the only person standing in the way of sports team owners tapping into it is the former owner of the New Jersey Generals.
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The judges sentenced 28 other businessmen and politicians, who received more than 300 years in combined prison sentences, and they ordered Mr. Rajoy's party to pay a fine of €143,000, making it the first Spanish political force to be convicted of operating a slush fund.
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"To look at the Pentagon as a piggy bank, slush fund, where you can grab money for something when you need it really undermines the credibility of the entire D.O.D. budget," said Representative Adam Smith of Washington, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
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The suit accuses the judicial system of using the fees it charges as a kind of slush fund, spending the money to buy flat-screen televisions for jurors, to finance a study of the Mississippi court system and to send notices in bankruptcy proceedings.
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This raises any number of possible legal and political questions — including the disturbing but very real possibility that under currently prevailing legal standards, there's nothing actually illegal about putting cash into the president's fixer's slush fund and hoping to gain political access in exchange.
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One of the great things this Justice Department did was that in addition to putting out that report on Michael Brown's death, they put out that report that demonstrated that the city of Ferguson was basically using the black community as a kind of slush fund.
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A third went to activities well outside the intended function of welfare reform: The availability of the money as a kind of slush fund for states — if only they don't use it on actual welfare — creates yet another incentive for states to discourage potential beneficiaries from applying.
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Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng told Reuters in an interview on Thursday that a plan was "on the table" to ask all individuals and political parties to return money that came from 1MDB, which was allegedly used as a slush fund by former prime minister Najib Razak.
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But in interviews, former employees questioned Mr. Koch's decision to hire Mr. Parsons in the first place, because he was suspended for five days after a 2009 Naval inspector general report accused him and his former boss of operating a "slush fund" to pay for tailgate parties.
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"If you use it as a slush fund – you put in $10,000 and take out $10,20183 – you get the state income tax deduction, but no tax-free growth," said Jeffrey Levine, a CPA and director of financial planning at BluePrint Wealth Alliance in Garden City, New York.
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The first OCO was passed by Congress seven days after 183/11 because the base budget hadn't accounted for fighting wars, but has essentially turned into a Pentagon slush fund, as the money is now routinely spent for items that have nothing to do with war.
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" According to U.S. prosecutors, Zarrab and others used the Turkish bank Halkbank to "launder billions of dollars-worth of Iranian oil proceeds, ultimately creating a slush fund for Iran to use however it wished — the very harm that U.S. sanctions were put in place to avoid.
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Goldman has found itself entangled in civil and criminal investigations around the world related to the work it did in helping 1Malaysia Development Berhad — or 1MDB, which United States prosecutors have alleged was a slush fund for the former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak and other officials.
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The Trump administration will release a budget proposal on Monday that calls for $750 billion in defense spending next year — a figure that will be boosted by using a pot of defense money that has often been criticized as a slush fund, two senior administration officials tell Axios.
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A number of Senate Republicans, particularly from Southern states that face the most immediate threat from Zika virus, spoke out forcefully for government action, putting added pressure on House Republicans who have accused the Obama administration of using the threat of Zika to demand a "slush fund" from Congress.
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According to Kim's book, it was from this office that executives administered a $200 million slush fund for bribing officials In Korea, the trial is front page news for now, but just like previous scandals, once the court case is over, the controversy will likely be brushed under the carpet.
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"Without reducing Title X funding by a dime, the Protect Life Rule simply draws a bright line between abortion and family planning, stopping abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood from treating Title X as their private slush fund," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group.
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Before seeking reelection in 1972, president Richard Nixon had established a massive slush fund with which to finance his bid—it was known as the "Milk Fund" after the dairy industry had contributed millions of dollars on the condition that the President would keep economic conditions favorable to dairy farmers.
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Mr. Abascal also appeared to win support by denouncing the corrupt practices of the Popular Party, which ran Spain from late 2011 to last June, when it was ousted from government after a scandal involving a slush fund that collected corporate kickbacks in return for the awarding of public contracts.
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And if legislation is stalled, as it appears to be as I write this (although things change fast when we're on Covid time), it's because Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is holding needy Americans hostage in an attempt to blackmail Democrats into giving Donald Trump a $500 billion slush fund.
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And if legislation is stalled, as it appears to be as I write this (although things change fast when we're on Covid time), it's because Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is holding needy Americans hostage in an attempt to blackmail Democrats into giving Donald Trump a $500 billion slush fund.
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She's right: Even many supporters of the law now concede that the technical implementation was botched, and enabled states to use money that used to be earmarked for poor households as a kind of slush fund to finance everything from child protection services to higher education to crisis pregnancy centers.
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But the agency said he used investor money as a "personal slush fund," funneling millions of dollars to fulfill his promises to earlier investors, and diverting $5.7 million to himself and other family members to pay for expenses including taxes, credit card bills and a mortgage for a Jersey Shore vacation home.
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A lawsuit accusing the federal court system of treating nearly a billion dollars in online access fees like a slush fund got a favorable reception on Monday from an appeals court, where the main question that judges seemed interested in debating was how to calculate the extent to which the public was bilked.
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Prosecutors are also investigating whether the president's influence helped Choi to receive expedited approval of two foundations that racked up multi-million dollar donations from South Korea's conglomerates in the space of a couple days, which she then used as her own personal slush fund to purchase property and fund her personal expenses.
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To the extent that 50 Republican senators play up the false view that Trumpcare won't leave millions of uninsured, citing bogus think tank "studies," or hyping opioid slush fund dollars, or pretending their bill won't gut pre-existing conditions protections, it is a sign that movement toward passage of the bill continues.
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The panel took $18 billion from a $59 billion off-budget account, which has become a slush fund renewed annually to finance the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other trouble spots, and is not subject to the budget caps, and repurposed that money for use in the $524 billion base military budget.
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Mr. Manafort maintained that he and Mr. Trump were victims of Ukrainian meddling that took two forms: the release of a mysterious slush fund ledger that detailed payments by the Russia-aligned party, including $12.7 million earmarked for Mr. Manafort; and the hacking of Democratic National Committee computers that was blamed on Russia.
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As Elizabeth Nelson fans come to realize, how deep the songs are is a trickier call than her command of political rhetoric makes you think—lines like "Are we not men/Are we mere clients" and titles like "Slush Fund City" never quite launch the intellectual content her hard groove and enunciated multisyllables gesture toward.
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Some major donors to Mr. Trump were bothered by the revelations that the campaign may have been used as a slush fund to pay fired or troublesome employees, said Dan K. Eberhart, an Arizona donor and energy executive who serves as an adviser to the America First Policies group created to support Mr. Trump's agenda.
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This is meant to cover the additional cost of America's operations in Afghanistan and other war theaters, though due to limits placed on the formal defense budget in the 21 budget deal between President Obama and Republicans in the House, the "OCO" budget, as it's called, has become something of a slush fund for defense spending.
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But retiring House Judiciary Chairman Bob GoodlatteRobert (Bob) William GoodlatteImmigrant advocacy groups shouldn't be opposing Trump's raids Top Republican releases full transcript of Bruce Ohr interview It's time for Congress to pass an anti-cruelty statute MORE (R-Va.) claims that such payments amount to a "slush fund" accumulated by the Obama administration to pay off its cronies on the left.
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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick ShanahanPatrick Michael ShanahanWhy Dave Norquist is the perfect choice for DOD's deputy secretary Five questions for Trump's new defense secretary on first major tour Trump says media is part of vetting his nominees: 'We save a lot of money that way' MORE denied Thursday that a Pentagon war fund has become a slush fund under sharp questioning from Sen.
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Both Democrats and Republicans have referred to the account as a "slush fund," a term used by acting White House chief of staff Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneyDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 'equal opportunity inquisitor' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE when he was a House lawmaker during the Obama administration.
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Both Democrats and Republicans have referred to the account as a "slush fund," a term used by acting White House chief of staff Mick MulvaneyJohn (Mick) Michael MulvaneyDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Chris Wallace becomes Trump era's 'equal opportunity inquisitor' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid MORE when he was a House lawmaker during the Obama administration.
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This bill also has, I think, on the good side, significant funds for FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] disaster relief and for state and local government, coming out of the stabilization fund, but it has way more money for the nation's largest corporations in this $500 billion slush fund that's going to be administered by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, so that's a real concern for me.
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"In the midst of an unprecedented national crisis, Republicans can't seriously expect us to tell people in our communities who are suffering that we shortchanged hospitals, students, workers and small businesses, but gave big corporations hundreds of billions of dollars in a secretive slush fund," said Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, who has largely negotiated over the phone in part as a precaution.
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Betty McCollumBetty Louise McCollumLeave park operations — and fee revenues — to the parks Federal watchdog: Trump admin broke law by pulling from park entrance fees during shutdown Interior official threatens to withhold jobs in lawmakers' districts after opposition to BLM move MORE (D-Minn.) called out the administration, saying that fee revenues are "not a slush fund" and should be reserved for improving parks and performing overdue maintenance.
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Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonCongress must address gender gap in nominations to military service academies GOP senators press Google on reports it developed a smart speaker with Huawei Sunday shows - Mass shootings grab the spotlight MORE (R-Ark.) blasted the Obama administration Wednesday for reportedly paying Iran the rest of a $2023 billion settlement in cash, saying the "untraceable" money could serve as a slush fund for terrorists.
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Sen. Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonCongress must address gender gap in nominations to military service academies GOP senators press Google on reports it developed a smart speaker with Huawei Sunday shows - Mass shootings grab the spotlight MORE (R-Ark.) blasted the Obama administration Wednesday for reportedly paying Iran the rest of a $22019 billion in cash, saying the "untraceable" money could serve as a slush fund for terrorists.
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"Over the next couple of weeks, we know that Leader [Mitch] McConnell will try to use a slush fund to buy off Republicans, cut back-room deals, to try and get this thing done," Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE (D-N.
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And in exchange for that guarantee, Southwest reliably swooped in with big orders and/or accelerated payments after accidents, stock price plunges, or both; the same lawsuit claims that, after September 11, the airline formed an off–balance-sheet slush fund to bail out Boeing during unanticipated shortfalls, and lent other airlines its own planes when Boeing production fell behind, all while it waited patiently for its order deliveries to be filled at a time when it was convenient for Boeing.
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I'm continuing to let it grow and will eventually use it toward a down payment.) Shared Monthly Expenses: My boyfriend and I have a joint account and each contribute $500/month to cover the following expenses (plus groceries, gas, and pet supplies):Utilities: ~$15-12Sling TV/Hulu/HBO: $50Netflix: $3 (We use my mom's account.)Internet: $05 (I work from home, so work covers $5.)Pet Insurance: $4.393 (And so worth it)Shared Slush Fund: $12-$10 Additional ExpensesCar Insurance: $12, quarterly, which we split.
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" The cost: Meeting the requirements in the Paris deal would cost the U.S. $3 trillion over the next several decades, plus the accord has a "UN Climate Slush Fund underwritten by American taxpayers" The lost jobs: By 2040 the economy would lose 6.5 million industrial sector jobs Claims about coal: "It would effectively decapitate our coal industry, which now supplies about one-third of our electric power" Where the U.S. stands on clean energy: "The U.S. is ALREADY a Clean Energy and Oil & Gas Energy Leader...Since 2006, CO2 emissions have declined by 12 percent, and are expected to decline.
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The lawsuit alleges that Trump, Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpPETA billboard in Baltimore calls Kushner a 'rich pest' Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties MORE, Ivanka TrumpIvana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpPresident tweets 'few work harder' than Ivanka, Jared Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Trump Jr. dismisses conflicts of interest, touts projects in Indonesia MORE and Eric TrumpEric Frederick TrumpThe Hill's 12:30 Report: Biden expands lead in new national poll Eric, Lara Trump welcome second baby Trump tweets photo of Trump Tower in Greenland: 'I promise not to do this' MORE used their family's charitable foundation as a slush fund for 2016 campaign cash.
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