"'Another big contributor was Ronald Sherman, a major taxi-fleet owner and president of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents the fleet owners. He gave $27,525 in his name to more than a dozen Council members.

'I'm head of an organization that represents 25% of the taxi cabs in New York City and we're a highly regulated industry," Sherman said via a spokeswoman. "What the Council does is of vital importance to the industry.'"

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