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Howe also worked as a lobbyist on behalf of COR Development, the Syracuse - based commercial real estate firm whose executives, Aiello and Gerardi, are accused of bribing Percoco with $ 35,000 for his help on a host of issues related their projects in Syracuse and Central New York.

Those questions arise from financial and employment ties between Green and the petitioner New Energy Economy and his representation as a lobbyist on energy and environmental issues for four parties to the NEE peitition who have hired him through the Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy.

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Manafort also attended a meeting last year at Trump Tower with Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and son - in - law Jared Kushner as well as two Russian lobbyists who were said to have offered dirt on Hillary Clinton.

As arguably the country's top business lobbyist, he was asked by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to organize a summit for G20 business leaders on the eve of the political powwow.

As longtime foreign - lobbying reporter Ken Silverstein wrote on Monday: «Manafort is hardly the only Washington lobbyist who appears to have flouted the FARA rules.

Lobbyist Steve Elmendorf, who represents the Federation of American Hospitals and Davita Health Care Partners, and Brian Pomper, who lobbies for BIO and Pfizer, are also on the bundler's list, as is Elizabeth Gore, who lobbies for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association and Walgreens.

Microsoft, which counts cloud computing and software as core businesses, had as many as 13 lobbyists working on NAFTA, according to the CRP database.

On a lobby disclosure form reviewed by Reuters, Cisco Systems listed NAFTA and government procurement as the trade issues handled by its lobbyists.

Cisco Systems, a networking hardware company, had as many as 10 lobbyists working on NAFTA issues.

In his appearance before a parliamentary committee, Facebook Canada's public policy head Kevin Chan was questioned by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus on why he had yet to register as a lobbyist, given the fact he's met senior cabinet members, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

He has previously worked with AT&T, as a lobbyist for the company from 2007 to 2008, but he has also opposed the telecom giant, as a lawyer who fought AT&T's unsuccessful bid to buy T - Mobile on behalf of companies like Dish.

Before joining the White House this year, Delrahim served as an antitrust lobbyist for Comcast *, which purchased NBCUniversal in 2011, and he also worked the halls of Congress and the federal government on behalf of Qualcomm, federal records show.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

The hearings focused on the Fed's role as Wall Street's major lobbyist and deregulator.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

These agents include people like Larry Pratt, a far - right Washington lobbyist on guns and abortion whose less savory affiliations led to his resignation as national cochairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

With populist nationalism on the rise, there is fear among citizens that the operational aspects of democracy are being debilitated by elements such as «fake news,» corporate lobbyists and voter...

If he has political ambitions, he works on Hillary Clinton's senate campaign in New York, and ends up living in suburban Washington, working as a lobbyist.

Read a sample of e-mails sent to MEPs by lobbyists High time for CIAA to come clean on its lobbying CIAA's $ 1 - billion campaign to promote the GDA labelling system was clearly a key element in its political strategy to combat other, stricter labelling options which it feared would damage sales of unhealthy food, such as the «traffic light» system.

This new alliance saw them recognised within the Banaban community as their international lobbyists under the banner of Abara Banaba («Banaba our homeland»), taking and promoting the Banaban cause on a world stage.

Moreover, as a feature article in yesterday's New York Times Sunday magazine made clear, SNA and its lobbyists on Capitol Hill are already deeply entrenched in their strategy to roll back healthier school food requirements.

As I wrote last week, consumer class action attorney Knoll Lowney sued the No on 522 and the Washington DC - based Grocery Manufactures Association (lobbyists for major food corporations) for not disclosing the donors behind GMA's $ 7 million - plus donation to stop I - 522, which would require genetically - engineered foods to be labeled.

Between them they have succeeded in persuading a range of senior lobbyists, academics and Eurocrats to contribute a series of essays on the ethical issues surrounding lobbying, as well as practical issues such as how to sign up to the commission register, and how to hire a lobbying consultancy.

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.

As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for public school students this year, taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy in the education system.

The two former ministers» faces were splashed across the front page of the Telegraph, after they were caught on camera speaking to undercover reporters posing as lobbyists.

Duffy won't be registering as a lobbyist, but he's still adhering to a two - year ban on lobbying his old colleagues in the administration — a ban that includes Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

It will be a lobbyists» bonanza - which many in that industry would see as no bad thing, coming hot on the heels of a severe recession.

But I am ready to take it on, like I've done as attorney general, where I've fought for you against bankers, lobbyists and corruption politicians in both parties.

State Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King is keeping the pressure on GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio to reveal the details of his compensation as a JPMorgan Chase lobbyist, sending a letter to the chair of the firm's compensation committee seeking information about his salary and non-salary benefits from 2005 through the present.

The race had hinged in large part on two different visions: Faso was knocked by Teachout for his work as a lobbyist and tenure as a state lawmaker in the Democratic - led Assembly.

In June, the company D'Amato founded and manages, Park Strategies, was listed as the fourth top lobbyist in New York in terms of total compensation, with $ 7.18 million in receipts, according to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics annual report.

As supporters and opponents go head - to - head with their positions on the Horse - Carriage Ban, lobbyists will be targeting City Council Members with a full on assault to sway their votes, but there's one legislator who could not be bought.

Individuals who have registered with the state as lobbyists within the past year are also prohibited from serving on the commission.

Prior to The Business Council, she was a consultant and lobbyist for Powers and Company, where she advised clients on a range of issues including high - profile economic development projects such as the Javits Center expansion and the new Yankee Stadium in New York City.

The actors have endorsed the Fair Elections reform package which includes a system of matching small donations with public funds, as well as lower contribution limits, restrictions on contractors and lobbyists doing business with the state, and greater enforcement and transparency.

However, in its proposals, the term «lobbyist» is narrowly defined as those who undertake lobbying activities on behalf of a third party client.

We've seen battalions of financial industry lobbyists descending on Capitol Hill, as firms spend millions to influence the outcome of this debate.

While he has lobbied the federal government for years, Howe only registered as a lobbyist with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics in December.

Senior European public affairs professionals have delivered withering verdicts on Brexit, as lobbyists across Europe try to get to grips with the referendum result.

Bill Hammond takes AG Andrew Cuomo to task for relying on lobbyist Jennifer Cunningham as an unpaid advisor.

A spectrum of New York p.r. firms filed suit Tuesday to force the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics to drop its lunatic bid to treat them as lobbyists.

The paper cited recent reports by the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) as evidence of the outsized influence that Albany lobbyists currently enjoy.

McMahon is taking up the Volcker rule issue as many bank lobbyists have expressed frustration that Sen. Chuck Schumer, perhaps Wall Street's most powerful advocate in Washington, has been publicly silent on many aspects of the fin reg bill legislation currently in Congress.

But in 2015, the Campaign for One New York decided not to register as a lobbyist because the group was mainly focused on launching The Progressive Agenda, de Blasio's somewhat failed effort to make income inequality a central issue in the 2016 presidential elections.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has released an on - line «video message to the people» that's essentially a consolidated version of his budget address and an effort to rally New Yorkers to his side as he prepares to do battle with the special interests and lobbyists that want to protect the status quo in Albany.

A friend once described to me the lobbyists» conference experience as three weeks» eating curling sandwiches and supping lukewarm white wine on sticky hotel carpets.

These are the people who make those decisions, from lobbyists whose names stay out of the press to the famous «three men in a room» that hash out the state budget to the prosecutor who has emerged as the fourth man in that room, listening in on every deal and upending the status quo of a place that seemed like it would never change.