Sentences with phrase «firm as its lobbyist»

While the earlier lawsuits concerned Terry's personal dealings, Sidney B. Bowne & Son LLP, a Mineola engineering firm that has had public contracts with North Hempstead Town and Nassau County, filed a lawsuit against Terry, who worked for the firm as a lobbyist, and others in 2007.

The company recently dropped Pigeon's firm as its lobbyist amid a joint federal - state probe into his activities.

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The lobbyist added that several major firms were more interested in making deals with the Trump administration that could affect their bottom lines, such as tax repatriation, than getting caught in politically charged fights over government surveillance.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Josh Brown, CEO of New York advisory firm Ritholtz Wealth Management, as well as a prolific blogger and tweeter, quipped about financial lobbyists» criticism of the proposal:

The market practices chronicled in this white paper show that financial firms and their sales - based financial professionals function as investment advice providers, despite financial lobbyists» legal claims to the contrary.

Smithfield Foods paid at least $ 280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart's firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

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King never registered as a lobbyist for these minority firms but he did register, through one of his lobbying firms, for a company that was picked to manage $ 30 million of pension funds, Plainfield Asset Management.

A former Cuomo aide, Joe Percoco, has received payments from two companies linked to state contracts, while lobbyist Todd Howe, who represented those firms linked to development, is under investigation as well.

State Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King is keeping the pressure on GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio to reveal the details of his compensation as a JPMorgan Chase lobbyist, sending a letter to the chair of the firm's compensation committee seeking information about his salary and non-salary benefits from 2005 through the present.

Howe also worked as a lobbyist on behalf of COR Development, the Syracuse - based commercial real estate firm whose executives, Aiello and Gerardi, are accused of bribing Percoco with $ 35,000 for his help on a host of issues related their projects in Syracuse and Central New York.

The ex-congressman now has a lucrative gig as a lobbyist in former U.S. Senator Al D'Amato's lobbying and consulting firm, Park Strategies.

After they were elected, Ms. Cunningham deregistered as a lobbyist to «avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest and resigned her job at a top lobbying firm.

We've seen battalions of financial industry lobbyists descending on Capitol Hill, as firms spend millions to influence the outcome of this debate.

A spectrum of New York p.r. firms filed suit Tuesday to force the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics to drop its lunatic bid to treat them as lobbyists.

He «took advantage of his position as senator and chairman of the Transportation Committee by corruptly causing lobbyists, who wanted Libous» influence to benefit their clients, to funnel money through a law firm to his son,» Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara explained.

Mr. Rosen is not a lobbyist and as such does not have to disclose his meetings with the mayor, but his firm represents a slew of boldfaced names that have major business at City Hall.

Senate Democratic leader John Sampson has been fingered by investigators as the leaker of confidential bidding information to the lobbyist for the politically connected firm that won the contract to run video slots at Aqueduct, sources told The Post.

The city's top lobbyist, a nursing home operator and a property appraisal firm are among those who have been subpoenaed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as part of an investigation he has opened into an ongoing city land use scandal.

The small, invite only, forum at the Assembly's Manhattan hearing room brought together about a dozen cloud technology vendors, including major firms like Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and AT&T, and a number of other technology consultants and lobbyists, as well as Reinvent Albany and Common Cause NY.

Lynch has been a go - to lobbyist when it comes to the Assembly majority since departing her post as Silver's communications director to found her Albany - based firm in 2001.

The Staten Island firm's annual harvest almost doubled between 2013 and 2016, when the speaker showered its clients with public funds, as revealed by the New York Post and Daily News, and when one of its lobbyists joined her staff, as Crain's reported.

James Capalino's eponymous firm surpassed Kasirer as the city's top lobbyist in 2014, Bill de Blasio's first year as mayor, and the common assumption was that its revenues rose because of its chief's ties with the mayor.

The law's survival is a top priority for the lobbyists employed by PRI, as the company is one of two such firms operating in the red in New York.

The firm also has other Democrats as lobbyists, including former Assembly Speaker Mel Miller and former Nassau Deputy County Executive Anthony Cancellieri.

Those under investigation include Joseph Percoco, one of Cuomo's closest aides, and Todd Howe, a lobbyist whose law firm had relationships with several companies that received work from the state as well as state entities in charge of awarding that work.

Howe, a former lobbyist with the firm Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna, represented firms that had contracts with the under - investigation Buffalo Billion, as well as SUNY Polytechnic, which is being investigated by the state attorney general's office.

«As alleged, Thomas Libous took advantage of his position as Senator and Chairman of the Transportation Committee by corruptly causing lobbyists, who wanted Libous's influence to benefit their clients, to funnel money through a law firm to his son where Libous has gotten his son a position,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statemenAs alleged, Thomas Libous took advantage of his position as Senator and Chairman of the Transportation Committee by corruptly causing lobbyists, who wanted Libous's influence to benefit their clients, to funnel money through a law firm to his son where Libous has gotten his son a position,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statemenas Senator and Chairman of the Transportation Committee by corruptly causing lobbyists, who wanted Libous's influence to benefit their clients, to funnel money through a law firm to his son where Libous has gotten his son a position,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

The November Team, a PR firm that is led by Bill O'Reilly, Jessica Proud and Jerry McKinstry, has blasted JCOPE for an advisory opinion that required political consultants to register as lobbyists when they engage in a form of «grassroots» lobbying.

A slew of prominent communications firms may be forced to register as lobbyists under a proposal by the state ethics commission, JCOPE.

Five public relations firms have brought a federal suit seeking to block the JCOPE from enforcing the portion of a recent advisory opinion that would treat people paid to discuss legislation with editorial writers as lobbyists.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta has registered as a lobbyist, representing five clients, including A. Vournou Construction Management Group, a Syosset contractor affiliated with a firm with a $ 20 million contract to build a new county crime lab.

One point of connection between LPCiminelli and Kaloyeros was lobbyist Todd Howe, who served as Kaloyeros» de facto chief of staff while Howe's clients — architects, engineering firms, developers — formed a roster of favored companies repeatedly chosen to work on SUNY Poly projects.

Walsh now works as a lobbyist for the Washington law firm K&L Gates.

In her 2014 Manhattan federal suit, Washington lobbyist Mary Arnold accused D'Amato and his brother, Armand, who ran the litigation - consulting firm Precision Discovery, of trying to pawn her off as the head of a new entity, although she'd have «no management control.»

While Mulrow was listed as a Blackstone lobbyist working to influence the $ 289 billion New York state pension system, Blackstone secured hundreds of millions of dollars in new pension investment commitments for the firm — far more than it had during the four - year period before Cuomo's first term.

Mulrow served as a lobbyist for Fields in 2007 and 2008, and served as chairman of another Fields - owned racetrack firm in Massachusetts.

The only firm to register as a lobbyist for Spruce, in 2014 and 2015, was Capalino & Co., which is run by de Blasio pal and campaign donor James Capalino.

Hilltop officials did not register as a lobbyist for the firm.

According to Mr. Bharara's office, Developer 1 — not charged with any wrongdoing — hired the law firm Goldberg & Iryami as its lobbyist for matters before the state on Mr. Silver's advice, knowing that the powerful speaker received lucrative referral fees from the firm.

The attorney general acknowledged that the ability of consulting firms to act as unregulated and unregistered lobbyists is an issue.

Howe's clients have been difficult to discern from public records: Whiteman Osterman first listed him as a registered lobbyist for the firm in New York only in February 2016, and only for a handful of clients — including COR and LPCiminelli.

According to state records, both men worked for companies with extensive development business before the state: Howe in his capacity as a lobbyist - consultant — though the scope of his work remains unclear — and Percoco as a consultant to two development firms during a seven - month period in 2014 when he was also managing Cuomo's re-election campaign.

Berman also enjoyed a broad range of support: Florida AFL - CIO, Publix, utility company Duke Energy, hospital group HCA, several lobbyists and firms such as Ron Book, Colodny Fass and Meenan.

That provision has been renewed every few years; its survival is a top priority for the lobbyists employed by PRI, as the company is one of two such firms operating in the red in New York.

In the recorded phone call, Adam Skelos singles out one Albany lobbyist, Nick Barrella, managing partner of the Albany firm Capitol Group, as especially effective in lobbying Senate Republicans.

A lobbyist from the firm that advises energy firm Ineos, which was involved in a biter industrial dispute with Unite the Union, is now working as a key member of Andy Burnham's leadership team.

At the nexus of the scandals is lobbyist Todd Howe, formerly of the powerhouse firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, who has confessed to acting as an intermediary between the various parties.

The firm's revenue subsequently declined, and in 2012, she reported $ 6.7 million, the same figure as 2007, but still second among state goverment lobbyists.