But Mr. Caputo insisted that the rates the businesses charged were not so low as to break state election law.
Even Mr. Schwarzman's co-founder at Blackstone, Peter G. Peterson, has come out against the tax break, stating he "can't justify that".
He said he had also contacted the state ethics commission, which told him that his involvement would not break state ethics laws.
On Thursday, in a conference call from Michigan with Washington reporters, he was asked whether Washington was a "make or break" state for his campaign.
Voter turnout in New Hampshire on a bitterly cold night was very high and appeared to be on track to break state records.
That policy applies to both in-state and out-of-state travels and ensures that the governor's office does not break state laws that prohibit the use of taxpayer money for campaign purposes.
After all, if the treasure were buried in Heron Lake State Park, Fenn would likely also have had to break state laws to put it there.
Mrs Clinton's commanding leads in the make-or-break states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have evaporated.
For rogue groups like Al Qaeda, broken states are appealing havens — and excellent bases from which to strike at the West.
As a scholar, Susan Rice used to berate the Bush administration for calling broken states a deadly threat but failing to fix them.
Bifurcation: there is a well-developed theory of bifurcation with symmetry to help understand the emergence of dynamically interesting (symmetry broken) states from higher symmetry states.
