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Cuomo's administration has also been investigated by the U.S. attorney's office under the tenure of Preet Bharara, who probed the shuttering of the Moreland Commission and charged a top former aide to the governor in an unrelated bribery and bid - rigging case.
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She also served as a senior aide to now Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on his successful race for Attorney General and in that government office.
Talk about ethics reform in the new legislative session has been largely muted this year, even as a year filled with corruption trials involving prominent New York figures is underway, including the ongoing trial this week of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo.
«Our government will spare no effort in its bid to reposition the state most especially the education sector as we are bent and irrevocably ready to provide necessary facilities and equipment to aide teaching and learning process through conducive atmosphere,» The governor pointed out at the site.
A former aide to President Bill Clinton and two governors bested four fellow Democrats in a Hudson Valley Congresssional district Tuesday night to take on Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth.
The latter issue is potentially a tricky one of the Assembly: Lawmakers in the wake of charges in a bid rigging and bribery case that has ensnared a former close aide to the governor, Joe Percoco, sought changes to procurement that would restore some of the power of the state comptroller, who has been at odds with Cuomo.
The federal corruption conviction of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former fixer and longtime top aide, Joe Percoco, further yoked the two - term governor to a broken culture in Albany that he has long tried to campaign against, marking a nadir in Cuomo's governorship and only the start of a political headache that is likely to intensify.
Also, the State Governments will be expected to provide Comptrollers in their States with the lists of State commissioners, and aides of their Governors for verification.
The payouts came several weeks before the newly - minted governor, with great fanfare, announced he and his top aides would take a 5 percent pay cut to set an example to the rest of the state in these difficult fiscal times.
The poll decline for Schumer comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ratings have also dipped in polls this month, which the governor's office has insisted is tied to the national mood facing Democrats and a reflection of the shutdown politics in Washington, not to the trial of Cuomo's former aide, Joe Percoco.
The AP reported yesterday that the campaign of former Tennessee governor and Democrat Phil Bredesen, now running to replace Bob Corker in the Senate, may have been hit by a cyber-attack: In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, campaign lawyer Robert E. Cooper Jr. wrote that Bredesen's aides.in the Senate, may have been hit by a cyber-attack: In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, campaign lawyer Robert E. Cooper Jr. wrote that Bredesen's aides.In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, campaign lawyer Robert E. Cooper Jr. wrote that Bredesen's aides...
«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.
Cuomo's former top aide, Steve Cohen, (to whom, incidentally, the Schneiderman appeal was reportedly made through the AG's top aide, Neal Kwatra), argued the following in a Nov. 26, 2010 response to a NY Times OpEd calling for the governor to empower Schneiderman:
A report in the New York Post suggested the Governor and his top aides were looking to use last week's scandals to oust Silver and replace him with Morelle.
In his first public appearance after the corruption conviction of a former top aide, Joe Percoco, Cuomo acknowledged he had known that Percoco was using government offices while working for the governor's 2014 campaign team, but said he believed the work was not political and related to the transition.
As a political neophyte, Khojasteh says he recognizes what he doesn't know, and therefore hired some recognizable names to assist him in his Senate quest, including Mollie Fullington, a former Pataki administration spokeswoman, who is handling media; and Mike Lawler, an Astorino administration aide who ran the former county executive's failed 2014 run for governor, as campaign manager.
According to Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross, who is in the Red Room (I'm watching the proceedings remotely; technology is so amazing), Ravitch had been asked by a Paterson aide to join the governor in his office.
Eight powerful men, including a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, were in federal court Thursday, entering pleas in a massive state corruption scheme.
The Moreland probes helped lead to the corruption convictions of both of the legislative leaders who were in power in 2013, and the conviction of the governor's former closest aide, Joe Percoco, on bribery charges.
By the end of today, the three biggest recipients of state economic development building contracts, plus the governor's Upstate nano - tech czar and SUNY Poly President, and one of the governor's closest aides will all be under federal or state indictment in a sprawling bribery and bid rigging scandal that involves close to $ 2B in state -LSB-...]
An aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has feuded publicly with Cuomo a number of times since taking office, accused the governor of doctoring the photo to show the correct colors in a since - deleted tweet.
A longtime aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Percoco was one of nine men charged in connection with the alleged schemes.
Aides to the governor have been trying for several weeks to dissuade Entergy from closing one of them, the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego County.
Nixon went on to critique the governor's record on ethics, saying he closed down a Moreland Act Commission that was actively investigating corruption in state government, and earlier this month saw his former closest aide convicted of bribery.
In March, legislators bristled when Cuomo tried to use $ 100 million of their «capital projects» slush fund for the councils, but the governor's aides eventually found $ 100 million by cancelling plans to build a state data center and re-obligated another $ 30 million in an older gubernatorial «capital projects» pork funIn March, legislators bristled when Cuomo tried to use $ 100 million of their «capital projects» slush fund for the councils, but the governor's aides eventually found $ 100 million by cancelling plans to build a state data center and re-obligated another $ 30 million in an older gubernatorial «capital projects» pork funin an older gubernatorial «capital projects» pork fund.
During testimony from current and former aides to Cuomo, it was revealed that while Percoco was off the state payroll managing Cuomo's 2014 reelection campaign, he was also frequently using his old offices, adjacent to the governor's offices in Albany and New York City.
While Democrats including District Attorney Madeline Singas have called for a supermajority of legislators to appoint the person with that role, Mangano aides say the mayor or governor directly selects them in the city and state.
The governor himself uses a BlackBerry messaging system that does not save messages to communicate with aides, the Daily News reported in 2012.
The companies in question were all represented by Howe, who also has deep ties to the Cuomo family and who hired Percoco to work as a personal aide to the late Gov. Mario Cuomo, the current governor's father.
Cuomo's former top aide, meanwhile, has not ruled out the governor using a Moreland Act Comisssion to investigate legislative wrongdoing or performing a broad inquiry into structural corruption in both chambers.
A top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo assembled a 35 - page dossier on the work of an Albany political reporter considered hostile to his administration, highlighting any shred of criticism in a document that reflects the intense sensitivity of a governor on the brink of taking the nationaGovernor Andrew Cuomo assembled a 35 - page dossier on the work of an Albany political reporter considered hostile to his administration, highlighting any shred of criticism in a document that reflects the intense sensitivity of a governor on the brink of taking the nationagovernor on the brink of taking the national stage.
By the end of today, the three biggest recipients of state economic development building contracts, plus the governor's Upstate nano - tech czar and SUNY Poly President, and one of the governor's closest aides will all be under federal or state indictment in a sprawling bribery and bid rigging scandal that involves close to $ 2B in state funds.
Jurors have been chosen in the public corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide Joe Percoco and told to report back at 9:15 am Tuesday morning for opening statements.
State Sen. John DeFrancisco, a GOP candidate for governor, said testimony and evidence in the trial showed that when Percoco was off the state payroll for most of 2014, and managing Cuomo's re-election campaign, he continued to use his state offices and privileges, making 837 phone calls and meeting with other Cuomo aides.
The lone female legislative leader, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, was told in February by an aide to the governor that she would be included this year to help shape the state's anti-sexual harassment policies.
First up on Jan. 22 is the trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, and others related to alleged corruption and bribery in connection with Cuomo's economic development efforts.
The jury is deadlocked in the federal corruption trial of former top aide to Governor Cuomo, Joe Percoco.
«Maria Comella is a great friend and has been a valued asset to the governor and this administration,» said Melissa DeRosa, who as secretary to the governor is Cuomo's top aide, in a statement.
Now, the governor's aides are pushing a line to the press that the «third parties» in New York have «too much» influence.
The Senate also confirmed one of Cuomo's two MTA Board nominees — Larry Schwartz, a former top aide to the governor who is now working in the private sector for an airport services company called OTG Management, to replace Republican Andrew Saul.
The governor has requested $ 30 billion worth of supplemental aide from Washington in order to help with the recovery effort.
In the letter, The Times says, Bharara threatened to investigate the governor's aides and maybe even Cuomo himself for «possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering.»
Bloomberg has largely avoided commenting on local politics, though he has allowed aides, such as Wolfson, to occasionally defend his record, and did criticize Governor Cuomo earlier this year for his decision to ban hydrofracking statewide and allow casinos in upstate regions.
«By definition the commission took advice and opinion from many, many people,» Cuomo said Monday in response to questions about a top aide's communication with the Moreland Commission, a group appointed last year by the Democratic governor.
A New York Times report alleges that a senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo interfered with the work of the Moreland Commission, the group the governor appointed to investigate corruption in Albany.
The probe began a year ago and appears to have honed in on Joseph Percoco, a former key aide and longtime family friend of the governor.
City officials Sunday renamed a Brooklyn street in honor of the aide to Gov. Cuomo who was killed during a street festival last year — but neither the governor nor Mayor de Blasio showed up for the ceremony amid their administrations» ethics probes.
The New York Daily News reports that Cuomo's aides suppressed subpoenas to the New York State Democratic Party and others, including the Real Estate Board of New York, that might result in a probe of campaign donations to the governor.
Most recently, this focus on secrecy was shown in the extraordinary efforts of the governor's aides to shield some of his records from public scrutiny in the State Archives, where a top Cuomo lieutenant spent nearly eight hours screening documents from Cuomo's years as attorney general that were sought by the Times Union under the Freedom of Information Law.
On September 22, 2016 nine people, including Governor Cuomo's former top aide, nano - tech subsidy czar and three largest Upstate campaign contributors were arrested for rigging close to $ 780 million in state funded construction contracts related to Buffalo Billion, SUNY Poly and nano - tech factories.