Within a few weeks, a developer involved in the proposal began sending checks totaling $472,500 to Michael's bank accounts.
Details of Mr. Bush's proposal are to be presented formally to Congress on Monday, but the documents describing the proposal began to circulate in Washington today and their details were provided by industry and Congressional officials.
Work on the proposal began in the early 1990's, after lawyers from the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws determined that existing product codes would not comfortably apply to software licensing.
The City Council, which would have to approve the measure roughly in tandem with the State Legislature, scheduled hearings on the matter for Monday; meanwhile, a bill outlining the proposal began circulating in Albany and quickly drew criticism from lawmakers.
The proposal began last year as an effort by Henry M. Paulson Jr., secretary of the Treasury, to make American financial markets more competitive against overseas markets by modernizing a creaky regulatory system.
Ms. Dickens's position had been eagerly awaited by the Bloomberg administration and community groups since last fall, when the proposal began to encounter widespread community opposition, some of which came forth at a series of raucous public hearings.
Have we gone mad?" And, while the proposal began with two M5S senators, it was harshly criticised by their figurehead, Beppe Grillo, and movement guru Gianroberto Casaleggio, neither of whom are elected to parliament.
Almost immediately, the proposal began to generate criticism.
