Sentences with phrase «by special adviser»

The work of the committee will be managed on a daily basis by a special adviser to Mr. Gonzalez, Jill Harris, who has spent her career working for criminal justice reform at groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Drug Policy Alliance.

Green — possibly aided by his special adviser, the former Sun PR man and leader writer Dylan Sharpe - suggested he was unimpressed with his former colleague's approach to the new job and proposed a radical new strapline for his newspaper:

This was contained in statement issued by special adviser to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank - Olemoh on Wednesday.

The implication is that the letter was published by her special adviser Fiona Cunningham, who has lost her job due to the row.

The way political journalists operate - how much they are actually fed by ministers in private chats, and by their special advisers, lies at the heart of the relationship between politicians and the press.

Not exact matches

Morgan Stanley, Allen & Co, and LionTree were retained as advisers by the special committee of its board, Viacom said.

But Fred Hof, the State Department's former special adviser for transition in Syria, said there was a difference between the warnings issued to Assad nearly five years apart by Obama and Trump.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first Trump White House official to make a guilty plea so far in a wide - ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.

Legal experts told Business Insider that the plea deal struck by Michael Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, with the special counsel Robert Mueller was most likely evidence that Flynn has damaging information to offer prosecutors on other persons of interest in the Russia investigation.

The Solicitor is the chief attorney for the United States Department of the Interior, principal legal adviser to the Secretary of the Interior, and is assisted by a Deputy Solicitor, Special Assistant, Ethics Director, Senior Counsel for Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution, six Associate Solicitors, eight Regional Solicitors, and a staff of more than three hundred attorneys and four hundred total employees.

North Carolina Tar Heels athletes were directed by their academic advisers into questionable classes in the school's African and Afro - American Studies department, according to a special subcommittee report.

Hysteria and panic ensues as the new candidate is primed for BBC Fenland by the party leadership team — Cooper's long - suffering special adviser Claudia (Jessica Regan) being told to «shut up» and «go over there and be a camera.»

Gordon Brown stands accused of initiating a cover - up to prevent the release of the embarrassing internal review, carried out by former MoD special adviser Bernard Gray.

The prime minister has cut the total number of special advisers across Whitehall from 95 to 83 and the pay bill has also fallen by # 500,000 from # 8.4 million to # 7.9 million a year, according to the government figures.

Perrior was one of a clutch of special adviser appointments confirmed by Number 10 on Thursday evening.

Defence secretary Michael Fallon's special adviser James Wild has been selected to fight North Norfolk, which is held by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb with a majority of 4,043.

She will be questioned about the row by the home affairs committee, which may also call her former special adviser to give evidence.

The shows will be fronted by Labour special adviser - turned - comedian Matt Forde and each will be recorded on the day before transmission, to ensure maximum topicality.

So, here's my advice for your trips to Glasgow, Brighton and Manchester: embrace the debates and discussions, the rows and recriminations, the whole jamboree, because whether you're a card - carrying member, a special adviser, MP, journalist or lobbyist, you ultimately got into all of this because you love and are fascinated by politics.

A former Labour special adviser himself, Forde skillfully managed the New Labour banter by pushing the right buttons, chucking in the odd impression, gently mocking his interviewees and ensuring that it didn't get too serious too often.

Michael Caputo, a Western New York political adviser and former aide to Trump's presidential campaign, reportedly has been contacted by the FBI regarding the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Parker is a former special adviser to Boris Johnson who was picked up by Pagefield last year.

In the summer of 2000 I was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar magazine to write about the young gilded special advisers who were working for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown or orbiting around them, or who were close to Peter Mandelson.

But he has earned Cameron's gratitude by taking a hefty pay cut to enter No 10 on a special adviser's salary of # 140,000 a year, having helped with the negotiations that created the Coalition Government.

Michael Caputo, a Western New York political adviser and former aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has been contacted by the FBI regarding the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the election, according to sources.

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama plans to name Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to help set up a new consumer protection agency created under the Wall Street reform bill, according to sources who spoke on condition of not being identified by name.

Kaiman, who announced last Sunday he would leave his state posts as chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority and special adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on storm recovery to run for the congressional seat held by retiring Rep. Steve Israel (D - Huntington), said he was not familiar with the scope of Terry's financial problems.

«To ask the Prime Minister how many expert advisers, excluding special advisers, have been commissioned by his Office since June 2007; and on which topics they have advised.

The new player making the most noise is Hanbury Strategy, set up last year by former Conservative special advisers Ameet Gill and Paul Stephenson.

But following an intervention by Lady Finn, a Cabinet Office special adviser, and a meeting between Lamey and Johnson, Lamey was appointed, the report said.

Cenedella, described by an adviser as a lifelong Republican who favors limits on legalized abortion, opposes gay marriage and backs the death penalty, is in ongoing talks about his candidacy with E. O'Brien Murray, a GOP consultant who managed Bob Turner's stunning victory in the special election for the Brooklyn / Queens congressional seat left vacant by Anthony Weiner's resignation in June.

Lord Jonathan Oates has been hired by Tendo, the lobbying firm founded by two former special advisers of Danny Alexander.

The minister's political future is likely to come down to the nature of email communications between himself and his special adviser, Adam Smith, whose «inappropriate behaviour» was condemned by Mr Hunt at the despatch box in parliament last week.

According to a statement by Femi Adesina, his Special adviser on Media and Publicity, President Buhari will join other world leaders at the welcoming reception to be hosted by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and also hold a bilateral meeting with the UN scribe.

Special advisers are paid for by the public but unlike permanent civil servants they are appointed by parties and ministers and allowed to be partisan in their advice.

Murdoch admits he was advised by Cable's special adviser that they should brief key Lib Dems in coming weeks.

Her former special adviser, now retired, who generated (slightly) tricky questions for his erstwhile boss by endorsing a second referendum on Brexit.

Under pay restrictions ordered by the prime minister, no new government special adviser will be paid more than # 72,000 a year without an explicit exemption from Downing Street.

Any minister is reliant on their private office to point out what they need to read and what they don't, and on the face of it she was let down by her civil servants and her special advisers.

, addressed this problem by calling for junior ministers to have special advisers appointed to them.

Or it could be because they are a former special adviser who was «parachuted into a safe Labour heartlands seat during a Blair era by - election».

The code adds: «Any special adviser ever found to be disseminating inappropriate material will automatically be dismissed by their appointing minister.»

Vote Leave points to a broader swathe of parliamentary support and is being run by Matthew Elliott, who masterminded the No to AV campaign, and Dominic Cummings, an abrasive former special adviser to Michael Gove who left government after falling foul of Nick Clegg.

Trump is being urged by some advisers to save at least one dance, as he celebrates his inauguration, for a very special Republican lady — Caitlyn Jenner.

The Welsh Government says it doesn't recognise the comments made by Steve Jones who was special adviser to the First Minister from 2009 to 2014.

The reason Leveson has been raised at all in the context of Miller's departure is entirely due to her own special adviser, Jo Hindley, having foolishly attempted to deter the Daily Telegraph investigation into the minister's expenses by mentioning it during a phone call with the paper's reporter.

The report also criticises both the informal «sofa» style of government pioneered by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's reliance on special advisers, rather than impartial civil servants, during his time as chancellor.

The document was prepared by Hugh Ind, the director general of the Home Office's immigration enforcement agency, in June last year and copied to Rudd and Lewis, the then immigration minister, as well as several senior civil servants and special advisers.

The special adviser to the president, who acknowledged internal crisis within APC, admonished members not to compound issues by creating unnecessary atmosphere, capable of undermining the reconciliation process.