Sentences with phrase «aide as a lobbyist»

As The News reported last month, disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (pictured) stopped pushing for the bill after the state Catholic Conference hired a former longtime aide as a lobbyist.

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Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

After that, not a lot happened policy-wise for weeks as attention turned not to post-budget issues, but to the growing corruption scandal surrounding the governor's key upstate economic development program, the Buffalo Billion, which has focused on lobbyist Todd Howe and former Cuomo aide and confidant Joe Percoco.

A former Cuomo aide, Joe Percoco, has received payments from two companies linked to state contracts, while lobbyist Todd Howe, who represented those firms linked to development, is under investigation as well.

Those named include Cuomo's former closest aide, a lobbyist close to the Cuomo family, and the head of SUNY Polytechnic, Alain Kaloyeros, who has now been suspended from his job, as well as two real estate developers.

Cuomo has acknowledged that his former top aide, Joe Percoco, is a target of the probe, as is Todd Howe, a lobbyist and close Cuomo family associate.

Former politicos - turned - lobbyists Fernando Ferrer, Roberto Ramirez and former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso — as well as Michael McKeon, a former top aide to Gov. Pataki, and Cuomo's cousin — got in the door.

Howe, the star witness in the corruption trial of a top governor's aide, worked as a lobbyist in Albany.

The groundswell over the Harvey Weintein sexual harassment that has rocked Hollywood moved into California's capital as more than 140 women — including lawmakers, senior aides and lobbyists — came forward to denounce what they describe as pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men in the nation's most influential legislature.

Braunstein, as you'll recall, is an aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and a nephew of lobbyist Brian Meara.

Those under investigation include Joseph Percoco, one of Cuomo's closest aides, and Todd Howe, a lobbyist whose law firm had relationships with several companies that received work from the state as well as state entities in charge of awarding that work.

Associates of the governor, including lobbyist Todd Howe and former top aide Joe Percoco under investigation as part of a broader probe.

His former top aide, Joe Percoco, is also under the scrutiny of investigators, as is a Todd Howe, a lobbyist with ties to Cuomo.

Bill Collins, a former top aide to disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is back at the state Capitol as a lobbyist.

The aide, Micah C. Lasher, worked for the Bloomberg administration from 2009 until last year, serving most of that time as the mayor's chief lobbyist in Albany.

Joseph Percoco served as Cuomo's executive deputy secretary and is charged with soliciting $ 315,000 in bribes which Todd Howe, a former aide to the governor who became a lobbyist, helped facilitate.

The housing agency that delivered the bond work to Cuomo's donors was until recently headed by Cuomo appointee Bill Mulrow — a Blackstone Group LP lobbyist who was subsequently appointed to serve as the governor's top aide.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, kept his communications with Howe confined to his personal email, shielded from the eyes of the state — and Howe didn't register as a lobbyist.

Ryan served as an aide to former Suffolk County Executive John V.N. Klein and Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea, and was a Washington, D.C., lobbyist for Grumman, which built the F - 14 Tomcat jet fighter.

Howe, a former lobbyist, has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud in exchange for testifying that Percoco allegedly received kickbacks in exchange for official acts as a close advisor and aide to Cuomo.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is on trial accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate business developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's a star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

Bharara is also investigating Governor Cuomo's former top aide, as well as a lobbyist associated with the Cuomo family for potential fraud.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat and the most visible champion of congestion pricing after reviving it last summer, and his aides, as well as lobbyists and advocates, focused their efforts on winning over the Assembly in hopes that they could present a united front and put pressure on the Senate, according to those familiar with their strategy.

A Bharara spokesman has declined to speak on the probe, which appears to focus on longtime Cuomo aide Joe Percoco as well as Todd Howe, a lobbyist and longtime Cuomo associate.

Community activist and former lobbyist Keith Powers, who was endorsed by term - limited Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick to replace him and served as an aide to elected officials, won Garodnick's seat.

The disgraced former lobbyist may take the stand as early as today in the bribery and corruption trial of two Syracuse developers and a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Although the so - called Gallegly amendment passed the House as a separate bill last week, it is likely to founder in the Senate, aides and lobbyists said.

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