Sentences with phrase «york election lawyer»

But a New York election lawyer, who declined to speak on the record, noted Laufer's line that if the contributor, either directly or through his agent, «places restrictions on how the intermediate recipient may use his contribution that may be seen as earmarking.»

Jerry H. Goldfeder, another New York election lawyer, said, «I don't think that would ever happen» but agreed the situation is legally complex.

«That's the conundrum here,» said Thomas J. Garry, a New York elections lawyer, who said a current congressional candidate who wants to run for attorney general would likely need to file a lawsuit.

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In a statement late Tuesday, the lawyer, Michael Cohen, confirmed a report in The New York Times that he made the payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, a month before the 2016 presidential election.

In a sweeping interview on Fox News Wednesday night, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said President Donald Trump had repaid his lawyer Michael Cohen for a $ 130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election

President Trump and his new legal point man, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, are off to an explosive start together, admitting what Trump had only recently denied — that he reimbursed his personal lawyer for hush money paid to a porn actress before the election.

Represented by prominent election lawyer Martin Connor, two New York Democrats challenged the validity of Zephyr Teachout's petition to secure a place on the Democratic gubernatorial primary this week.

Marty Connor, an election lawyer and the former leader of the State Senate Democrats, pulled Teachout's voting records and spent Friday and Saturday sharing them with journalists, noting that she claimed to be a permanently disabled voter (this lets her vote by absentee ballot), had no record of voting in New York in 2011 or 2013 and questioned whether she met the five - year residency requirement to be governor.

When allies of the mayor began to set up the Campaign for One New York, after de Blasio's election in 2013, they followed a model established by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — even hiring the same well - established election lawyer, Laurence Laufer, who had helped set up a similar nonprofit to support Cuomo's agenda three years earlier.

«New York election law allows political parties some flexibility for their nominating process,» said Jerry Goldfeder, an election lawyer who usually works for Democrats.

Election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder said the decision had potential to change the way special elections for Congressional seats are called in New York, where governors have long enjoyed almost unlimited latitude in declaring a vacancy.

Jarret Berg, Executive Director of the New York Democratic Lawyers Council (NYDLC) said: «The premise of our democracy is that Americans have the fundamental right to participate in the election of its leaders, but today, millions of busy New Yorkers lack real opportunities to vote because they are restricted to voting on one workday from one assigned location.

(CNN)- New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand accused Republicans of stooping to a «new low» Wednesday amid reports GOP lawyers have challenged her ballot in the election to name her successor in the state's 20th congressional district.

The donors, topped by hedge funder Stanley Druckenmiller, the Trial Lawyers Association and the health care union 1199SEIU, combined to contribute $ 10 million, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of state Board of Elections records.

In September, the IDC Initiative paid about $ 45,000 to Martin Connor, a former Senate Democratic minority leader who's now a prominent election lawyer, and nearly $ 20,000 since last March to the New York City firm Kantor Davidoff.

She has served as Secretary of State (2009 - 2013), Senator from New York (2001 - 2009), First Lady of the United States (1993 - 2001), First Lady of Arkansas (1979 - 1981 and 1983 - 1992), a practicing lawyer and law professor, and the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

In an article that detailed how Cambridge Analytica obtained information about millions of Facebook users, The New York Times reported this month that employees of the data research firm with European or Canadian citizenship had worked extensively for its American clients during the 2014 and 2016 elections, despite a warning from its own election lawyer.