Sentences with phrase «close confidante»

He says Jonathan Rosen is a trusted friend and close confidante of de Blasio's.

But perhaps the most significant players on Team May are Stephen Parkinson, formerly of the Vote Leave campaign, and Fiona Hill, the home secretary's formidable former special adviser and close confidante who recently joined lobbying firm Lexington Communications.

«The information revealed in the corruption trial was that Cuomo's closest confidante Joe Percoco was simultaneously acting as a lobbyist representing private clients with business before the state, serving as the Governor's campaign manager and still acting as a public official on official state matters,» Cox said.

MANHATTAN, N.Y. — The bribery trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former aide and close confidante Joseph Percoco continued Monday with prosecutors accusing him of accepting bribes from Syracuse developers.

In addition to Warhol, other artists and close confidantes selected include Jeff Koons, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Jeff Elrod, Jacqueline Humphries, Rashid Johnson, Adam McEwen, Sterling Ruby, Borna Sammak, Julian Schnabel, and Jonas Wood.

Axios previously reported Trump told close confidantes he would pull out of the Paris agreement, despite calls from European leaders and some in his own administration to stay in the accord.

Sources say Henry Wojtaszek, an attorney and close confidante of Maziarz and former chairman of the Niagara County GOP committee, has been deeply involved in the party's move to recruit North Tonawanda Mayor Robert Ortt as its replacement Senate candidate.

The Everybody Loves Raymond star will play Zak Yankovich, Richie's closest confidante who acts as his head of promotions.

Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

As a 2006 study in the American Sociological Review found, the number of close confidantes a typical individual has shrank by a third between 1985 and 2006, to about two from three.

Perhaps they had already known of his background and many wins, or perhaps they had just finished the Steve Jobs biography, which describes Ellison as something of a close confidante to Jobs.

We don't know how he went from being raised by Sister Mary — played in the present by Diane Keaton as his closest confidante — to the most regarded Catholic in the world — One who doesn't know his way around the Vatican, for example, bumping into a tour group by accident in one humorous scene.

Still, Heyman is one of Lesnar's closest confidantes.

The prime NFL writer in Rivers» home city — a close confidante of Rivers — believes it's time for the Chargers to trade the franchise quarterback.

Mr. Sharpton further revealed that he was first introduced to Ms. Mark - Viverito by Mr. de Blasio's close confidante, top political operative and current U.S. Ambassador Patrick Gaspard.

Recent events, particularly the corruption trial of one of Cuomo's closest confidantes, Joe Percoco, helped push her into the race, a source close to the campaign told POLITICO.

He's the co-founder of Leave.EU, the so - called «provisional wing» of the Leave campaign, spearheaded by his close confidante Nigel Farage, and he's now contemplating his next move: taking an axe to the rest of the parliamentary system.

Seen as one of Cameron's closest confidantes, he's as locked into the «project» as George Osborne is, and only marginally less influential.

De Blasio called McCray «my closest confidante, my No. 1 adviser» when he made her the chairwoman of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City and gave her a personal staff.

Calling her «my closest confidante» and «No. 1 adviser,» the mayor gave McCray, who is legally barred from drawing a salary, a full - time staff of five to work out of both Gracie Mansion and City Hall.

All his close confidantes must do well to remind him of our resolve to see a continuous positive change in society.

Tony Blair's premiership has been a decade of waste, his critics claim, and unusually one of his closest confidantes agrees.

First Lady Melania Trump's closest confidante is only a New York minute away, and it's the older sister nobody knows.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has charged one of his closest confidantes, Joseph Percoco, with taking bribes from companies that contributed to the governor's campaign in exchange for getting state agencies to loosen up with subsidy dollars.

Since September 2016, when the corruption charges were brought, a key question in Albany has been how was such a close confidante to Cuomo able to engage in a scheme as alleged by prosecutors.

The Times» Daniel Finkelstein, a close confidante of George Osborne, even argued (although actively opposed to AV) that AV might solidify Cameronism.

The congressman, a close confidante of Democratic presidential front - runner Hillary Clinton, argued the same standards should apply to those seeking to succeed President Barack Obama.

Party insiders say that Ashdown is a close confidante of Clegg, and the former leader's constant praise of the incumbent is a mix of genuine belief in the Clegg project and what he brings to it.

The latter two allegedly bribed Joseph Percoco, Cuomo's former deputy executive secretary and close confidante, to push state agencies under the governor's control to subsidize their projects.

ALBANY — State Sen. John DeFrancisco has called for a special counsel to investigate the revelation that Joe Percoco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's close confidante and 2014 campaign manager, did extensive campaign work that year at the governor's Manhattan headquarters.

One of Giuliani's closest confidantes, Anthony Carbonetti, has signed onto «Republicans for Cuomo.»

A close confidante of the deputy prime minister said earlier this morning that David Cameron had told Mr Clegg he didn't think he could win a majority.

Casey's ties to Pigeon and Brown date back to their days together in the administration of former County Executive Dennis Gorski, and Casey emerged from Brown's successful run for mayor as his closest confidante, a man many referred to as the «shadow mayor.»

Two of the governor's closest confidantes, who have served both father and son Cuomo, were instantly singled out as subjects of interest.

In one task, subjects made a choice between a reward (ranging between 75 and 155 Swiss francs) for themselves or one that was shared equally between themselves and another person, who ranged from their closest confidante to a stranger on the street.

They examined the differences in physical health between those who had a close confidante and those who did not.

Or turn to whoever your closest confidantes are.

Goode is playing Papal Secretary Bernd Koch — the current Pope's closest confidante — while Koch is set to play the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Marco Malerba.

Her closest confidantes, including Robert Kennedy (Sarsgaard), think she's crazy considering what just happened to her husband in broad daylight.

Lupita Nyong» o shines as Nakia, T'Challa's close confidante who hopes to see her country take a larger role in the world.

(Johnson considered Jenkins a close confidante and treated him like a son until Jenkins was arrested for lewd behavior in a men's bathroom.

The politically savvy Coretta is her husband's closest confidante and his advisor on everything from tactics to tie tacks.

When Gale (Liam Hemsworth)-- Katniss» long - time best friend — talks about the casualties of war, he notes that «No one who supports the Capitol is innocent» and Katniss realizes how the war has painfully affected even her closest confidante.

A wife realizes her closest confidante is much more than that.

Before long, Amber is Daphne's closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson.

That very night, Nehru's sister and close confidante, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, was in Moscow, preparing to present her credentials to Stalin as free India's first ambassador.

Richard Fink has long been one of the Koch Brothers» inner circle, playing the role of both political strategist and close confidante.