To highlight the industry's economic contributions, it arranged 70 meetings in which House members visited private-equity-owned companies or met their chiefs.
He claimed to have paid him $7,000 in cash in addition to the recorded contributions he arranged.
The rest of this contribution is arranged in the following manner.
The charitable outgo corresponds, dollar for dollar, to the political income from campaign contributions received from or arranged by Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist, who, at the beginning of the week, pleaded guilty to five federal felonies, including fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to bribe public officials.
The lobbyist, Patricia Lynch, arranged campaign contributions, gifts and even a job to gain access to Alan G. Hevesi, then the state comptroller, on behalf of clients seeking investments from the multibillion-dollar state pension fund, which Mr. Hevesi supervised, according to a settlement agreement between Ms. Lynch and Mr. Cuomo's office.
The disposal would not take place unless industrialized nations underwrite the $1.75 billion cost to carry out the program in Russia, a contribution yet to be arranged.
When shown a copy of a federal record noting his contribution, Kogan, 75, said his daughter, Ksenya Kogan, arranged the donation.
Ms. Ritzie was the project's editor, taking over in December 1997 and arranging contributions from writers.
Evgeny Freidman, who owns dozens of taxi medallions, bundled $29,700 in contributions, all of which were arranged after Mr. de Blasio filed his supporting brief.
