Sentences with phrase «federal housing secretary»

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is supposed to police gun trafficking, and it has been underfunded and Congress has tried to block its function, said Cuomo, a former federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton.

Cuomo, who served as federal housing secretary in President Bill Clinton's administration, endorsed Hillary Clinton, the former New York U.S. senator, on the day in April when she announced formally she was running.

Attorney General Cuomo, the son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo and the former federal housing secretary who tried and failed in a run for governor in 2002, made his long - expected announcement that he's running for governor this year at an unexpected time — early this morning — via a prerecorded announcement posted at his campaign web site on the internet.

But it's the Democratic Party's nominee for president — likely to be Hillary Clinton — who will oversee the selection of the main speakers at the convention, and knowledgeable Democrats say she is unlikely to pick Cuomo, who was federal housing secretary in President Bill Clinton's administration.

Cuomo the younger has already been federal Housing Secretary under President Bill Clinton, and a nationally known state Attorney General, and is one of the most popular governors in the nation.

Tensions between Cuomo and Kennedy simmered for years while the two were married, and exploded into an ugly divorce battle in 2003 — a year after Cuomo, a former federal housing secretary, lost his first race for governor — following revelations that Kennedy was having an affair with a married and wealthy polo - playing family friend, Bruce Colley.

But the state's junior senator also has a long - standing relationship with Cuomo, having worked with him when he was federal housing secretary in the Bill Clinton administration.

The Daily News reported Friday that Percoco was linked to these companies through Washington - based lobbyist Todd Howe, a former aide of Cuomo's when he was federal housing secretary.

The governor, who cited his work as the federal housing secretary and the responses he made to natural disasters, said FEMA failed to plan in advance of the storm.

Prosecutors said he was struggling to pay for his $ 815,000 home and leaned on Todd Howe, a disgraced former lobbyist and one - time aide to Cuomo when he was federal housing secretary, to arrange payments from his clients to help make ends meet.

The Cuomo administration has ordered staff to cut off all communication with lobbyist Todd Howe — who previously worked for Cuomo when he was federal housing secretary and, earlier, for the governor's father, the late Mario Cuomo — and to suspend any regulatory dealings with CPV, a source with knowledge of the probe said.

D'Amato said he was «very proud of the fact» that he had a good working relationship with Cuomo, including in Washington when he was a senator and Cuomo was federal housing secretary.

Howe, who worked for Cuomo when the current governor was federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, was described by the source as isolated from friends and family and disconsolate as Bharara's investigation continues to unfold.

Cox, who two decades ago had a private sitdown with the island's dictator, Fidel Castro, charged that Cuomo emulated communist - like practices last month when he blocked private companies from» fracking» — drilling for natural gas — in the Southern Tier, and years earlier, when he was the federal housing secretary.

The cases involve accusations of bid - rigging involving upstate economic development programs — including the ballyhooed Buffalo Billion — and related dealings involving ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, who previously worked for Cuomo when he was federal housing secretary.

Hinton, who worked for Gov. Cuomo when he was the federal housing secretary, plans to focus on affordable housing, low - income communities and offshore wind development.

The home page of Mercury's Web site lists Hinton's name with a link to her biography, which claims she «worked as assistant secretary for public affairs for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,» but then oddly says that she did so «when he served as» federal housing secretary, which was from 1997 to 2001.

He also served as Andrew Cuomo's deputy chief of staff when he was federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton.

Only a few days earlier, during an appearance at the Jackson Houses in the Bronx, the governor, who served as the federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, said he was prepared to declare a state of emergency in the buildings of the New York City Housing Authority — which would allow him to replace its failing management team, appointed by the city.

Both men later worked for Andrew Cuomo when the current governor was the federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton.

Karen Hinton, who also once worked for Cuomo when he was federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, was injured after a recent fall on a treadmill at the gym.

He then worked for Andrew Cuomo when he was federal housing secretary under Bill Clinton and in the state attorney general's office when Cuomo was AG.

Mr. Cuomo by then had risen to federal housing secretary.

In 1997, he said, Andrew Cuomo, the federal housing secretary, called and asked him to join his staff — a post Howe said had him travel with Cuomo to nearly 50 states.

Cuomo, elected to his current post in 2006, has spent a lifetime in politics and public service including stints as a top advisor during his father's 1977 failed run for mayor as well as his successful run for governor in 1982, after which he came his father's special assistant, and, later, federal housing secretary under President Clinton.

Howe once worked for Mario Cuomo and served as Andrew Cuomo's deputy chief of staff when he was federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton.