Sentences with phrase «aides to the governor said»

Aides to the governor said UNICEF is largely footing the bill for the rebuilding work, with some supplies having been donated as well.

But a top aide to the governor said it might be awhile before the proposals could become law and take effect.

Cuomo offered no details of his proposed «Collins - Faso Federal Tax,» but an aide to the governor said it would have to be worked out with the state Legislature.

Aides to the governor said UNICEF is largely footing the bill for the rebuilding work, with some supplies having been donated as well.

UPDATED New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pursuing a resolution to an impasse with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in the city's attempt to secure access to state funds to launch a new program to help the homeless move out of shelters, an aide to the governor said Wednesday.

An aide to the governor said Mr. Paterson would still like to see the same - sex marriage bill come to a vote in the coming weeks, but Democratic leaders have resisted holding a vote unless it was assured of victory.»

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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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

And spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer says as soon as the Governor learned that his former top aide was charged with corruption, he hired an outside firm to assess any weak points and corrected the system to «to increase transparency and accountability.»

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.

Over the past three years, 314 home rule bills were passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the governor, aides to Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx) say.

«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.

Another source said that some of the aides of Tinubu had said that it was important for him to let the world know how Buhari pleaded with the former governor to be his running mate saying that his choice of popular Lagos pastor and tele - evangelist, Pastor Tunde Bakare would not fetch him the needed victory.

Adding to the tensions, de Blasio was said to have hired Karen Hinton, the wife of former top Cuomo aide Howard Glaser, without giving the governor a heads up on the appointment.

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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.»

«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.

His comments came during private budget talks with top aides, a source close to the governor said.

He said some of the governor's top aides and allies viewed the economic development and energy policies «as a gold rush, where they were supposed to make themselves wealthy.»

The inspector - General of police, Ibrahim Idris, thereafter defended his decision saying it was a deliberate move to forestall reoccurrence of involving governor's aides in electoral malpractice.

Gubernatorial press aides then contacted several reporters, three of them said, hoping to have them ask if the governor was inclined to give state lawmakers a pay raise this year.

Mr. Cuomo's aides have long said that they plan to attack Rob Astorino, the Westchester County executive and Republican candidate for governor, over his opposition to abortion rights, which they say is out of step with the position of the vast majority of New Yorkers.

Sola Fasure, media aide to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, in a statement said...

Cuomo issued a report in weeks not months, essentially saying that the State Police at the behest of the governor's top aides, had recreated reports on Senator Bruno's flights and fed them to the Times - Union.

The governor, speaking at a briefing in New York City, says he spent the day Sunday touring the state, and he says he and his aides have done all they can at this point to prepare for the storm.

The Secretary to the State Government of Ekiti State (SSG), Dr. Modupe Alade on Thursday said Governor Ayodele Fayose's aides are all living in fear in...

«I am being realistic about politics,» Paterson said, alluding to the scandal involving contacts he and members of his state police security detail had with a woman who was seeking a court restraining order against one of the governor's closest aides.

Some senior Cuomo aides, waiting for the next shoe to drop, have stopped taking calls from other high - level state officials and many, including longtime loyalists to the governor, are talking privately about lasting damage to their reputations from what they believe is Bharara's widening probe, the sources said.

Cahill, a top aide and official in former Governor George Pataki's Administration, says as Attorney General he'd bring more focus to creating jobs and helping small business, improving education and protecting Charter Schools, and fighting crime.

Maloney, who served as White House staff secretary under Bill Clinton and was a top aide to governors Spitzer and Paterson, said he was not chiefly motivated to support Quinn simply because she would be New York City's first female and first openly gay mayor.

The governor didn't initially plan to tour the Aloft Hotel construction site, but Kennedy said he added it to Cuomo's itinerary at the insistence of top aide Joseph Percoco, Kennedy testified in Manhattan federal court.

He has said he knew nothing about the alleged kickback scheme, and another aide testified the governor was shocked to learn of the investigation of one of his closest confidants.

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.

With his former top aide facing a federal probe for potential conflicts of interest for consulting work, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D - N.Y.) has said twice now that he did not know what the former close associate of the Cuomo family was up to.

He says there's no way of knowing, though, whether Percoco's rehiring forms were actually viewed by the governor or other top aides around him, but he says there's a simpler way to have determined if any conflicts existed.

Fran Reiter, a former top aide to Cuomo, said the governor's appointees would not be voting.

In it, the paper says, Bharara threatened to investigate the governor's aides and maybe even Cuomo himself for «possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering.»

In a radio interview Thursday, Bharara declined to say whether his investigation will extend to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in light of a New York Times report that some top Cuomo aides meddled in the work of the supposedly independent commission, created by the governor.

Catsimatidis said the heavy focus was on how to use the upcoming federal corruption trials of former Cuomo aides and associates, including one set to begin next week involving long - time close aide and friend Joseph Percoco, against the governor.

Cuomo said he doesn't regret failing to ask his former top aide Joe Percoco to identify the private consulting clients he worked for during the seven months he was away from the Executive Chamber in 2014 — the same period in which Percoco was serving as the campaign manager of the governor's re-election effort.

He said during the meeting of the Governors Forum held in Abuja, the forum unanimously condemned the decision by former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, to forcefully declare himself as chairman of the party.

According to the Times Union, longtime Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco recruited members of the commission to issue statements saying they had been independent of the governor's office.

Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has been outspoken in his opposition to a gas power plant under construction in Orange County, says the project should be scrapped altogether in the wake of the corruption charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, which showed the company behind it, Competitive Power Ventures, allegedly bribed a former top aide to the governor, Joe Percoco, seeking favorable treatment from the administration.

«The Governor is calling an extraordinary legislative session for Wednesday, June 28 to take up the issue of Mayoral Control,» said Melissa DeRosa, the governor's secretary and tGovernor is calling an extraordinary legislative session for Wednesday, June 28 to take up the issue of Mayoral Control,» said Melissa DeRosa, the governor's secretary and tgovernor's secretary and top aide.