The same businessman lathered Mr. Bruno with campaign contributions, and was associated with a firm that got $500,000 in state grants, courtesy of Mr. Bruno.
Like Caroline herself (who was created Baroness Vaughan upon the birth of their first son), the two boys were granted courtesy titles, but no official royal decrees were ever issued by Leopold, the Belgian government, or any other foreign state, causing them to be merely honorary.
When I asked Warner's aides for permission to attend some of his policy briefings in January, word came back that the outside experts who had been asked to make presentations, some of whom worked in the Clinton administration, balked because they were afraid the Clinton camp would find out that they were granting courtesies to another candidate.
The Senate did not even grant the courtesy of a committee hearing.
If Michael Phelps wants to crash at a Holiday Inn, he should be granted that courtesy.
Many of the federal grants come courtesy of the stimulus bill of 2009, and so are quickly drying up.
"We believe the state has continued to own the land, granted a courtesy to the yacht clubs, and has been trying to reclaim the land for at least 10 years," said Paul Larrabee, a spokesman for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
It came only moments after the president had granted a courtesy call in the Oval Office to Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and fiery progressive running against Clinton who has yet to formally suspend his campaign.
When NASA shut down the program months later, Silver parlayed his progress into a second grant, worth $89,000, courtesy of the Department of Agriculture (farms produce plenty of convertible waste, too).
The first project, headed by EnerVault of Sunnyvale, received $476,428, supplementing a $4.76 million grant that came courtesy the 2009 stimulus, and $4.29 million of privately raised capital.
