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All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed grief over the sudden deaths of the Speaker of the House of Assembly Oyo State and the Media aide to Governor of Sokoto State.

Sean Finnerty, who headed natural gas development at Competitive Power Ventures, said it was a «red flag» when government relations executive Peter Galbraith Kelly told him the money was going to a spouse of a top aide to the governor of New York.

Governor David Paterson is under siege with a series of swirling controversies... the awarding of bids for the Aqueduct racino, his conversations with a woman who has accused a top aide to the governor of domestic violence, and the cloud over how the governor obtained Yankees» World Series tickets.

But real life offers another set of images, that of killers making nice: Ted Bundy as law student and aide to the governor of Washington State, and John Wayne Gacy as the Junior Chamber of Commerce's «Man of the Year.»

Not exact matches

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.

Do top (non-press shop) aides of governors usually request meetings AT the NYT or TV stations to b*tch about a particular reporter?

Paterson's top aide, Larry Schwartz, (now a top aide to Cuomo; oh, what a tangled web we weave), said at the time that the governor was «open - minded» about Dinallo's proposal, but nothing ever came of it.

But a corruption scandal last year — engulfing a former close aide to the governor, prominent upstate developers and the ex-president of SUNY Polytechnic — has caused lawmakers to reconsider oversight.

Ojudu was reacting to a claim on Sunday a news portal allegedly operated by an aide to Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti, Mr. Lere Olayinka, which reported that Ojudu was about to leave the APC to realise his ambition on the platform of the AD.

The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has promised to ensure those behind the assassination of his aide are made to face the wrath of the law.

DeFrancisco, meanwhile, kept the focus on the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, the former close aide to the governor who is accused of fraud and bribery.

While the mayor moved to change the subject, defend his aides and associates, the governor sought to reassert some semblance of control, and quickly.

A former aide who had spoken to Spitzer during the campaign said the former governor was surprised by the ferocity of the editorials that urged voters to not give him another shot, but had also acknowledged he faced an uphill fight given the more tangible institutional opposition.

Spitzer's closest aide, Richard Baum, got the biggest bonus of $ 200,000 and then went into the government payroll as secretary to the governor.

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 push for procurement oversight reform began last year following the arrests of ex-SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and a former close aide to the governor, Joe Percoco as well as prominent upstate developers, accused of rigging bids for economic development contracts.

When pressed on whether it's «realistic» to believe that the governor, who has a reputation of being something of a micromanager, did not know what his top aide was up to, Bharara said simply: «It's not my job to comment on what is realistic or unrealistic.»

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.

At 34, DeRosa is also the youngest person ever to hold the position of the governor's top aide.

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...

More scrutiny for economic development spending has been pushed without much success over the last several years despite the arrests of prominent developers and a former aide to the governor.

«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.

The Journal News: «It would be nice if Cuomo addressed the question on everyone's mind: How one of his closest aides, perhaps his closest, could use his relationship with the governor to try to enrich himself by illegal means, without Cuomo knowing or suspecting.»

According to a Cuomo spokeswoman, the governor's new top aide, Melissa DeRosa, is «actively engaged» with JCOPE, the state's ethics - advisory agency, «to ensure that even the appearance of impropriety is avoided» ahead of her starting her new position later this year.

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.

The Blackstone Group, a hedge fund that is among opponents of closing the carried interest loophole at the state level, is home — once again — to ex-top Cuomo administration aide Bill Mulrow, who is chairing the governor's 2018 campaign.

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.

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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-...]

A coalition of progressive groups sent a letter calling on Gov. Cuomo to cancel all state permits for the Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) natural gas power plant that is central to the trial of Joseph Percoco, the governor's long - time friend and former aide.

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 fund.

When the New York Times requested emails related to official business sent to and from the personal email accounts of top Cuomo aides, the governor's office issued a blanket denial: Staff members «do not use their personal email accounts for government business.»

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.

More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions of dollars more a year on schools, Governor Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, say critics.

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.

Governor Cuomo's chief of staff was one of the first witnesses to testify at the corruption trial of Governor Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco.

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.

Theirs was a inventive effort, involving the imposition of heretofore unknown and unwritten park curfews and exceedingly energetic conversations between aides to the governor and Mayor Gerald D. Jennings of Albany, whose resolve crumbled as a confrontation between the police and demonstrators loomed 12 days ago.

The jury is deadlocked in the federal corruption trial of former top aide to Governor Cuomo, Joe Percoco.

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