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For immediate release: 7 PAGES Thursday, January 16, 2014 For more information: Bill Mahoney, (518) 817-3738 NYPIRG ANALYSIS OF GOVERNOR CUOMOS FUNDRAISING ELECTION CYCLE 2010-2014 Cuomo Donors by Aggregate Contribution Total (Albany, N.Y.) According to an analysis of state campaign finance filings, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) has found that: 80.97% of the money raised by Governor Cuomos campaign committee this election cycle has come from donors who have given aggregate totals of $10,000 or more. This represents a slight increase from July, at which point 80.18% of his committees contributions had come from donors at this level. Similarly, the percentage of coming from donors to the governor giving less than $1,000 has decreased from 0.89% to 0.85%. Only 0.69% of his campaign committees contributions have come from individuals not corporate entities who have given aggregate totals of less than $1,000. 1 Total $ % of All $ Total Donors $15,530,789.17 45.06% 242 $12,373,039.76 35.90% 682 $4,194,642.46 12.17% 835 $2,071,928.00 6.01% 1386 $293,218.08 0.85% 1128

Donor Level $40,000 or more $10,000 or more; less than $40,000 $2,6000 or more; less than $10,000 $1,000 or more; less than $2,600 Less than $1,000

242 donors have contributed $40,000 or more to Governor Cuomo Donations from clearly-linked corporate and union entities have been combined for this analysis. At least 41 donors have exploited various loopholes to give Governor Cuomo more than the purported $60,800 contribution limit. Donor Holdings of Leonard Litwin2 THE RICHMAN GROUP INC. KASOWITZ, BENSON, TORRES & FRIEDMAN LLP
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Total Donations $800,000.00 $264,000.00 $200,000.00

The totals in this analysis reflect contributions and contribution refunds made between December 1, 2010 and January 14, 2014. This study excludes contribution refunds made to 16 entities totaling $41,160.23, presumably residuals of the 2010 election cycle, which resulted in more money being refunded to them than they gave this election cycle. It is possible that the identification of more vaguely-titled LLCs will lead to an increase in the total money from large donors. 2 When donors appear entirely in upper-case letters, they match a spelling that appears somewhere in the campaign finance database, though subsidiaries with different names might be aggregated in the amount. Donors whose names appear with regular typography are names that do not appear in the campaign finance database, and was created by NYPIRG to clarify the identity of vaguely-titled contributions.
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$200,000.00 $165,000.00 $150,000.00 $150,000.00 $121,600.00 $121,542.00 $121,500.00 $120,800.00 $117,500.00 $115,500.00 $115,000.00 $106,000.00 $105,300.00 $104,175.43 $103,500.00 $100,000.00 $100,000.00 $99,800.00 $93,800.00 $89,165.46 $85,000.00 $80,500.00 $80,000.00 $77,500.00 $75,000.00 $75,000.00 $70,800.00 $70,000.00 $70,000.00 $69,843.00 $68,000.00 $66,500.00 $65,000.00 $65,000.00 $62,800.00 $62,500.00 $62,500.00 $61,500.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00

STEINER, SYLVIA TISHMAN, DAN TONIO BURGOS & ASSOCIATES OF NEW JERSEY, LLC TISHMAN SPEYER DEVELOPMENT, LLC SERQUE LEASING CO. LLC PATROLMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASS'N OF THE CITY OF NY PAC ROVT, ALEXANDER NEW YORK ANESTHESIOLOGISTS PAC ROCKEFELLER, LAURANCE PALMIOTTO, CAROL RICH, DAVID MADDEN, WENDY MCDONALD, GEORGE MOTT'S LLP MASON TENDERS DISTRICT COUNCIL OF GREATER NY PAC MULROY, THOMAS DAVIDOFF, ROXANA GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS POLITICAL ACTION COMITTEE GUARINO, MARCELLA HALMAR INTERNATIONAL LLC GUND, AGNES EMPIRE DENTAL PAC DAVIDOFF, ANDREW BELLUCK, JOSEPH BING, STEPHEN CASTAGNA, FRANK COLE, NEIL CURRY IV, R. BOYKIN CIMINELLI, LOUIS BURGOS, TONIO STATE STREET ASSOCIATES PAC HYMOWITZ, GREGG TSUNIS, GEORGE SILVERMAN, HENRY SERGEANTS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION RIZARO MANAGEMENT LLC RUBENSTEIN, HOWARD PHYSICIANS' RECIPROCAL INSURERS New York State Pipe Trades Association PORT AUTHORITY P.B.A., INC. NYS PAC ROVT, OLGA

$60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,800.00 $60,700.00 $60,470.77 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00

NEW YORKERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING NYS BEER WHOLESALERS ASS'N, INC. PAC ROTH, DARYL SALZHAUER, AMANDA ROTH, JORDAN ROTH, STEVEN RECHLER, DEBORAH KNICKERBOCKER MANAGEMENT, LLC/ KNICKERBOCKER PARKING, LLC/ KNICKERBOCKER TELEVISION LLC MOTORSPORT POWER LLC JACKSON, RICHARD MANDELBAUM, JONAH JOSEPH, MICHAEL MEDICAL LIABILITY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY PAC JOSEPH, ROBERTA MOUNTY, JOEL JOYNT VENTURES, LLC MUGRABI, ALBERTO GOSIN, BARRY DELLA SALLA, ANTHONY EMPIRE HEALTH PAC EMPIRE STATE PRIDE AGENDA PAC HAGGERTY, JACQUELINE DRIVE COMMITTEE POLITICAL FUND HAMPSHIRE MANAGEMENT COMPANY/ HAMPSHIRE CONSULTING SERVICES HIC PAC CHANOS, JAMES CONGEL, ROBERT CASTAGNA, RITA AIELLO, STEVEN BAKER, LISA AFFORDABLE HOUSING PAC, LTD. TRIAN FUND MANAGEMENT, L.P. APPLEGATE, DONNA BONOMO, MARYELLEN BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL PAC COBURN, ROBERT PICKETT, DANIEL BRAUFMAN, JILL BARNES, BEN LAUDER, LEONARD

$60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $60,000.00 $59,172.04 $59,000.00 $59,000.00 $58,061.52 $57,960.33 $57,500.00 $57,500.00 $57,500.00 $56,000.00

GURAL, JEFFREY AHMAD, HUSAM INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES AHMAD, UZMA SIMONS, MARILYN ROBBINS, LARRY RIKLIS, IRA MEHIEL, DENNIS HAMAMOTO, DAVID GTECH CORPORATION PAC - NEW YORK AIELLO, JEFFREY CITIGROUP INC. PAC BLAVATNIK, LEONARD BLAU, JEFF PIGEON, STEVEN GOSIN, JACKIE RPAC OF NEW YORK STATE OSTROFF, RICHARD SOSNOFF, TONI FALCONE, MICHAEL LAWPAC OF NEW YORK FOGLIANO, RELLA VMS LLC ZEMSKY, LESLIE SIMONS, JAMES STONE, ANDREW STRICKLER, ELIZABETH T-REX CAPITAL, LLC ORPHANIDES, JAMES REVERE, CLAUDINE PERELMAN, RONALD NEW YORKERS FOR PUTTING STUDENTS FIRST ROSE, ADAM MOUYIARIS, NIKOS MCGETTIGAN, EDWARD Joseph A. Bakaleynik JAHARIS, MICHAEL KLEIN, GEORGE JP MORGAN CHASE PAC METALLIC LATHERS LOCAL #46 POLITICAL ACTION COMMIT MARCUS, GEORGE

$56,000.00 $56,000.00 $55,800.00 $55,250.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $55,000.00 $54,000.00 $53,090.25 $53,000.00 $52,854.92 $52,500.00 $52,005.75 $51,000.00 $51,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00

MORELLI, ARLENE MATTONE, JOSEPH LANGONE, KEN MAXWELL, RUSSELL ICAHN, CARL LUTNICK, HOWARD FLAUM, DAVID DIMENNA, JOSEPH GEIER, PHILIP ACKMAN, WILLIAM BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP BARTOLOMEI, JOHN ASWAD, LAURA BERNSTEIN, JILL BARNETT, GARY 1199 SEIU, NYS POLITICAL ACTION FUND BROMAN, CHESTER CHAPMAN, ANNA BARNETT, AYALA CORCORAN, JAMES GILBERTI, WILLIAM HELLER, J. DAVID MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK PAC PITTA & GIBLIN LLP FISHER, WINSTON DELBELLO DONNELLAN WEINGARTEN WISE & WIEDERKEHR LL CATSIMATIDIS, MARGO COLE, ELIZABETH BUILDING TRADES EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION INC. PAC BROWN, MCMAHON & WEINRAUB ENGEL BURMAN SENIOR HOUSING FAZIO, TIMOTHY SNYDER, JAY NYC DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS PAC OLSON, BRIAN MOINIAN, JOSEPH MEHIEL, KAREN KRAMER, DILLOF, LIVINGSTON & MOORE COUNSELORS AT L FLAUM, ILENE EMPIRE STATE REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS BANK OF AMERICA NY PAC

$50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 $49,500.00 $49,000.00 $48,333.00 $47,806.91 $47,500.00 $47,500.00 $47,500.00 $46,396.21 $45,800.00 $45,500.00 $45,250.00 $45,047.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00

BUILDING FOR NEW YORKERS PAC ANHEUSER-BUSCH COMPANIES BONOMO, JULIANNE BONOMO, JACLYN AT&T PAC - NEW YORK ASGM PAC NEW YORK STATE LABORERS' PAC RECHLER, SCOTT LOMBARDI, TARKY CONGEL, SUZANNE SILVERCUP STUDIOS SCHAPS, RICHARD KOVNER, BRUCE ARGENTO, GINA WILLEN, JOSEPH TERMINI, ROCCO OTG JFK T5 VENTURE, LLC/ OTG MANAGEMENT, LLC SARATOGA GAMING RESOURCES, LLC OMP OFFICE, LLC ROIZMAN, ISRAEL MCKENNA LONG & ALDRIDGE NEW YORK PAC MANDELBAUM, DAVID MADDEN, STEVEN KPMG LLP LYNFORD, TONDRA MAZZA, PETER KEARNEY, KENNETH LAMBERT, BENJAMIN MORELLI, BENEDICT GREENBLATT, JOEL MICHA FROWLEY, SANDRA FERRARA, JOSEPH BRANT, PETER COTTON, RICHARD BREDA, JOSEPH

$45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $45,000.00 $44,500.00 $44,000.00 $43,600.00 $43,164.58 $42,500.00 $42,500.00 $41,000.00 $41,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00 $40,000.00

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