Sentences with phrase «by federal lobbyist»

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Tom Wheeler, the former cable industry lobbyist appointed to head the Federal Communications Commission by President Obama, announced on Thursday that he would resign on Inauguration Day.

The three lobbyists tapped by Dick's to push for gun control are listed by name in the federal disclosure forms, which are required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to be filed quarterly: Joel Johnson, who worked for both President Bill Clinton and Senate Democrat leadership; Andrew King, who worked for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

Smithfield Foods paid at least $ 280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart's firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

In October 2013, the elder Aiello and lobbyist Todd Howe, who is reportedly one of the figures of interest in the federal probe, met with top officials at the Division of Homes and Community renewal, according to records maintained by the state website Project Sunlight.

Executives at each firm were charged by state and federal prosecutors last week with improperly colluding with Todd Howe, the lobbyist, and officials SUNY Polytechnic Institute to win contracts building SUNY Poly facilities.

The federal subpoena issued to the Cuomo administration in April mentions two firms represented by lobbyist Todd Howe in a Syracuse development that landed an unusual grant of $ 2.5 million in state funds.

On Sept. 22, eight people were charged by Bharara's office; a ninth, lobbyist Todd Howe, pleaded guilty on a number of federal charges and is cooperating with the government.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he stands by his comment that he is not close friends with lobbyist Todd Howe, who is a focus of the federal investigation of Cuomo's Upstate economic development projects.

Lobbyist Todd Howe, under scrutiny for his dealings with SUNY Poly, has signaled he wants a lawsuit filed against him by COR Development to move forward in federal court.

ALBANY — The Washington - based lobbyist who is close to Gov. Cuomo and under federal investigation has been fired by his firm, the Daily News has learned.

The governor subsequently said the federal investigation, being conducted by the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara, seems to be focused on the actions of two of his longtime associates, lobbyist Todd Howe and former top aide Joe Percoco.

More than two years later, the event is drawing new attention because it was hosted by Todd Howe, the disgraced lobbyist who pleaded guilty in September to a raft of federal felony charges for his role in alleged schemes in which clients received special government favors.

Federal investigators are looking at whether lobbyist Todd Howe, a longtime associate of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, defrauded his former employer by diverting client payments to his own account, people familiar with the matter said.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

Glenwood also paid $ 120,000 to a firm headed by Brian Meara, a longtime friend of Silver and who is the unnamed lobbyist in the federal criminal complaint against Silver, according to news reports.

One is Todd Howe, a Washington - based lobbyist, who until very recently was employed by the lobbying wing of the Whiteman Osterman & Hanna law firm, and whose work touched a number of construction projects under federal scrutiny from the Buffalo Billion, to Syracuse to downstate.

But because she had recently violated a section of the law that forbids lobbyists from sending people on expensive junkets (something about paying a congressman to go on an «educational» tour of Indonesia regarding taxes on palm oil), she is called up for a Senate hearing led by Senator Ron M. Sperling (John Lithgow), who is in the pocket of the gun people and seeks to send her to a federal penitentiary.

In an Education Week commentary essay about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists, certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar - contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»

Washington — The deficit - reduction measure approved by the Senate last week could threaten the future of many federal education programs, according to education lobbyists and opponents of the bill.

Lobbyists convinced Federal policy leaders to weaken FERPA by making «research» so open - ended that it grants states the right to decide whether or not to protect the privacy of children.

That was a stark message from the district's federal lobbyist, who told a district board committee this week that Washington is increasing national support for charter schools by nearly 32 percent but by only 6 percent for magnet schools, a difference that surprised some of the school board members.

In January 2015 an APS lobbyist secretly authored a letter signed by six Arizona Congresspersons (Democrat Reps. Ron Barber, Ann Kirkpatrick and Kyrsten Sinema, and Republican Reps. Trent Franks, Paul Gosar and Matt Salmon) to the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau asking them to look into purported consumer fraud in the residential solar market.

According to Salon.com, which obtained over 300 emails of personal messages between lobbyists and Canadian officials, the CEA is part of a sophisticated public affairs strategy designed to manipulate the U.S. political system by deluging the media with messaging favorable to the tar - sands industry; to persuade key state and federal legislators to act in the extractive industries» favor; and to defeat any attempt to regulate the carbon emissions emanating from gasoline and diesel used by U.S. vehicles.

Tragically, fracking is not regulated by federal statutes governing water safety, because industry lobbyists obtained an exemption from this law, known as the «Halliburton loophole.»

Represents individuals, including public officials, lobbyists, and high - level state administrators, as well as businesses, in state and federal criminal investigations and grand jury proceedings; clients accused by the government of fraud; students accused of sexual misconduct; Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; Best Lawyers in America «Lawyer of the Year» in Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense; listed in Best Lawyers in White - Collar Criminal Defense and Civil Rights Law categories.