Sentences with phrase «czar under»

He served as a housing czar under former Gov. Mario Cuomo, and as a paid consultant to COR Development, the Central New York real estate firm whose top executives allegedly bribed Percoco for his help with their state - funded projects.

The Albany Housing Authority hired Norstar Development for the project — a Canada - based company with significant operations in Buffalo and is led in the U.S. by Richard Higgins, a former state housing czar under Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Not exact matches

The trade czar nominee first achieved prominence as deputy USTR under Ronald Reagan, helping negotiate voluntary restraints on European and Asian steel exports to the United States in the mid-1980s.

We have a president that received no vetting from CNN or those who voted for him and look what we got... a partisan ideologue who has brought the number of Americans who need food stamps to a record high, embraced policies that have resulted in 23 million Americans unemployed or under - employed, decreased household incomes by $ 4000 annually, increased the number of Americans dependent on the federal government to nearly 50 % and appointed dozens of «czars» who we know nothing about and who were also never vetted.

Conditions were bad enough under the Czars but under Communism they have become worse because the Russians, whether White or Red, have always looked upon Islam with hatred.

Twenty three years later, all of the Eastern Catholic Churches can breathe a sigh of relief that the Church that co-operated in the destruction of Eastern Catholic Churches under the Czars and under Stalin, has finally come into line with world Orthodoxy and no longer denies their very right to live.

For good reason, Broncos czar John Elway likes what they've established in Denver, having won four AFC West titles and an AFC championship under John Fox, and a Super Bowl under Gary Kubiak.

Max's family suffered under both the Czar and, later, the German invaders «My great - uncle was killed by the Cossacks during the pogroms,» Max says.

Babcock spent a year learning under Spurs shooting czar Chip Engelland, who begins retooling players» mechanics by examining their fingers.

By the end of today, the three biggest recipients of state economic development building contracts, plus the governor's Upstate nano - tech czar and SUNY Poly President, and one of the governor's closest aides will all be under federal or state indictment in a sprawling bribery and bid rigging scandal that involves close to $ 2B in state -LSB-...]

A routine oversight hearing by the state Assembly turned testy when the state's economic development czar endured over two hours of questions about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs, which are currently under federal investigation.

By the end of today, the three biggest recipients of state economic development building contracts, plus the governor's Upstate nano - tech czar and SUNY Poly President, and one of the governor's closest aides will all be under federal or state indictment in a sprawling bribery and bid rigging scandal that involves close to $ 2B in state funds.

A routine oversight hearing by the state Assembly turned testy when Howard Zemsky, Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar, endured over two hours of questions about Cuomo's economic development programs, which are currently under federal investigation.

Kaiman was appointed by Cuomo in 2013 as storm recovery czar for Long Island after superstorm Sandy under the New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program.

Sadik - Khan seems to have beaten out the other serious contender, Michael Horodniceanu, who did a traffic - czar stint under Dinkins, in a face - off policy wonks were watching closely because the two candidates seemed to embody two opposite approaches.

Eimicke was Mario Cuomo's deputy secretary for policy and programs, then Mario Cuomo's housing czar for three years before resigning under pressure in 1988.

A shift in costs under the Medicaid program from the state to New York City government remains in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $ 154 billion budget his Medicaid czar on Monday told lawmakers.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo's economic development programs came under fire Wednesday during a legislative hearing that kept his economic czar in the hot seat for hours.

Kaiman, an attorney and a former Nassau County District Court Judge, was appointed by Cuomo in 2013 as storm recovery czar for Long Island after superstorm Sandy under the New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program.

A routine oversight hearing by the state Assembly turned testy when Governor Cuomo's Economic Development Czar, Howard Zemsky, endured over two hours of questions about Governor Cuomo's economic development programs, which are currently under federal investigation.

Bill Eimicke: Columbia University professor and former housing «czar» under Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Under the guise of «partnership», tap two white, wealthy, suburban legislators to draft legislation empowering the county executive to appoint an education by exclusion czar whose power supercedes that of the elected school board.

Facebook's been at this forever as well and they were kinda close, with Zuckerberg getting close to their Internet Czar at the time, but that fell through once that Czar was fired, maybe jailed, and all functions of it are now directly under the prime minister.

As part of the «Historic Agreement» 12 brokered by Obama Environment Czar Carol Browner, California and other states agreed to consider compliance with EPA's greenhouse gas emission standards as compliance with their own.13 But in return, auto manufacturers and their trade associations had to support both the Tailpipe Rule and the California waiver.14 In a September 30, 2011 letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa summarized the terms for auto makers under the «Historic Agreement»: