Sentences with phrase «entity with business»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended his former aide's acceptance of fees from entities with business before the state, saying it was «totally allowable» for Joe Percoco to have done so while serving as the governor's campaign manager.

ALBANY — In a special session to raise pay for state lawmakers, legislators may also create a system of public financing for judicial elections and restrict their ability to solicit campaign contributions from entities with business before the state, sources told POLITICO New York.

Asked about those unrelated cases — including the contracts for political donors, as well as what prosecutors called «helping someone you had a personal relationship with obtain contracts with entities with business before the county» — Walker said, «I'm ready to answer any questions that they may have.»

A source with knowledge of the situation said Percoco failed to accurately report outside income he received came from entities with business before the state.

«Even if what he was doing (in accepting consulting fees from entities with business before the state) was legal, the optics just look so bad,» one source said of Percoco.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is investigating whether donors to the Campaign for One New York, which was not bound by city campaign finance rules and could accept unlimited amounts of cash from individuals and entities with business before the city, received anything in return for their donations.

Updated: Melissa DeRosa, a spokeswoman for the governor, notes DeFrancisco's statements on a potential deal are already enshrined in law (At this point, entities with business before the state disclose, not lawmakers).

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo now under federal investigation, might have pocketed as much as six figures from entities with business before the state.

Mr. Percoco had taken a sabbatical from his job at the state to handle the political effort, and later reported having received income during that time from two entities with business before the state: COR Development, a construction firm based in Syracuse, and CHA Consulting, an engineering firm from Albany.

Records show Percoco saw his family income spike to as high as $ 417,000 in 2014 thanks to a combination of his state and campaign work for Cuomo as well as his controversial decision to take outside pay from entities with business before the state.

Meanwhile, at the same time he was managing the reelection campaign for the powerful Democratic governor, Percoco and his wife were also quietly raking in significant extra dough from entities with business before the state.

At the heart of the investigation are payments Mr. Percoco and his wife received in 2014 from entities with business before the state, including with the Buffalo Billion, and which donated to Mr. Cuomo's campaign.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday defended his former aide's acceptance of fees from entities with business before the state, saying it was «totally allowable» for Joseph Percoco to have done so while serving as the governor's campaign manager.

One of the vice chairmen comes from another entity with business before the state — the Retail Council.

Several of the attorney general's proposals echoed similar calls from government reform groups, including lowering campaign contribution limits and drastically limiting campaign contributions from any entity with business before the state.