Sentences with phrase «aides to the governor left»

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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.

Former aide to Governor Cuomo, Joe Percoco (left) is at the center of the latest scandal to hit Albany.

Cash - strapped ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, now at the center of a federal corruption probe, submitted resignation papers when he left the public payroll to run the governor's re-election campaign, but then didn't go through with leaving, making his decision to take private consulting clients problematic upon his return.

Mr. Cuomo's director of state operations, Jim Malatras, said the governor had called him to relay what the legislators had said immediately after leaving the state fair, prompting the governor's aides to call Mr. Brindisi and Mr. Griffo the same day.

ALBANY --- Gov. Cuomo said Monday he knew Joseph Percoco, a former top aide now under federal investigation, might take consulting fees when he left the administration to head up the governor's reelection campaign.

The Times also sought daily schedules for Joe Percoco, the former top Cuomo aide, as well as records pertaining to his return to the Cuomo administration following a leave of absence when Percoco managed the governor's 2014 re-election effort.

Cuomo aides declined to comment, correctly noting that Duffy has not announced any intention to leave, but the governor himself has conspicuously refused to affirm Duffy's future plans.

Cox also accused the governor of trying to send a message to Vance at at time when the Republicans have formally called on the prosecutor to investigate the Cuomo administration for corruption after it was revealed in a federal trial that Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, continued to use his government office after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's 2014 re-eelction campaign, which would violate state law.

Howe, according to sources, helped former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco obtain at least two consulting clients while Percoco left the state payroll to serve as the governor's campaign manager in 2014.

CROWN HEIGHTS — A fifth man has been identified by police in connection with a gang - related Labor Day shooting that left an aide to Governor Cuomo dead.

Joseph Percoco, former top aide to NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, leaves Manhattan Federal Court at the end of the 3nd day of his trial for bribery on Thursday, January 25, 2018.

More than a mere aide, Percoco — who left the administration in late 2015 to become a senior vice president for the Madison Square Garden Co. — has been described by the governor as «my father's third son and my brother.»

As congestion pricing stalled, the governor and his aides tried to salvage the congestion zone by negotiating for authorization of about $ 200 million to lay the infrastructure for an eventual congestion zone but leave the actual details of how it would operate — such as boundaries, fee amounts and hours and any exemptions — until after the election.

He worked as a top aide to the governor for years, and took a leave of absence for much of 2014 to run Cuomo's re-election campaign.

Sean Patrick Maloney, one of Governor David Paterson's top aides and a former attorney - general candidate, is leaving his $ 178,000 - a-year post, according to a source.