Sentences with phrase «former confidant»

Davis was referring to pay - to - play scandals that led to the ousters of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Joe Percoco, a former confidant to Gov. Cuomo.

After campaign finance reports revealed the payments, Massa said in a statement that he did not authorize the $ 40,000 check to Racalto and accused his former confidant of falsely telling the campaign comptroller that the fee had been approved.

Among the other controversies the tycoon has been involved in includes a slapstick legal battle that took place last year between the billionaire and a former confidant, the investment banker Jeffrey Blue.

Not exact matches

A report from The New York Times published Thursday night said the counterintelligence inquiry focused on at least three advisers associated with Trump — former campaign manager Paul Manafort, close Trump confidant Roger Stone, and former Trump adviser Carter Page.

«Donald Trump resists being handled,» said Roger Stone, a former Trump adviser and longtime confidant.

After that, not a lot happened policy-wise for weeks as attention turned not to post-budget issues, but to the growing corruption scandal surrounding the governor's key upstate economic development program, the Buffalo Billion, which has focused on lobbyist Todd Howe and former Cuomo aide and confidant Joe Percoco.

As the corruption trial of his former close aide and confidant Joe Percoco played out in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stuck to a largely similar script when asked about the details of the testimony.

That could have been Ed Balls, former Treasury minister and loyal Brownite, or Baroness Vadera, a former banker and Gordon Brown confidant.

«These are very serious allegations involving a former member of the Conservative frontbench as well as some of David Cameron's closest confidants inside Downing Street and his cheerleaders in the media.

Trump confidant and former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani is one of the leading voices in designing a «cyber doctrine» for the U.S., according to the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, but there is little information about how that process is going.

Sherry Ayitey, the former Minister of Fisheries under President Mahama, who is also a former treasurer of the movement and once a confidant of Mrs Rawlings, was said to have addressed the women in Ashiaman.

Political consultant Charlie King, former executive director of Sharpton's National Action Network and a confidant of Gov. Cuomo, is working behind the scenes on behalf of Cornegy, who, if elected, would become the first African - American council speaker.

The former mayor of New York and longtime Trump confidant may be making headlines for not really towing the Trump company line when it comes to Stormy Daniels, but when it comes to selling houses... he may be the key.

Stone, a confidant to President Donald Trump and former adviser to his campaign, had his Twitter account temporarily locked again this week after tweeting «I'm watching you and know what you're up to.

Former assemblyman Michael Benjamin, who represented the 79th District before Mr. Stevenson, attacked Mr. Blake in the New York Post this week for taking donations from allies of ambassador to South Africa (and Mayor Bill de Blasio confidant) Patrick Gaspard and for unceremoniously dropping several district leader candidates from his petitions in order to allegedly win support from the party establishment.

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

This time CU's back with a half - hour, not - so - flattering documentary about Terry McAulifee, ** the former Democratic National Committee chair (and Clinton - confidant) who's now running for Virginia governor.

Weiner, a Democrat, is the former husband of Huma Abedin, a confidant of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

ALBANY — Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was convicted Tuesday of three felony three corruption charges in connection with accepting more than $ 300,000 in payments from companies with business before the state, according to reports.

They include lobbyist Carl Andrews, also a longtime Norman confidant; former Bronx Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera; and Brooklyn state Sen. Martin Dilan and his son, Brooklyn Councilman Erik Dilan, both of whom have ties to former Assemblyman and accused groper Vito Lopez.

Republicans are counting on a weariness of Cuomo after two terms, as well as any damage to his reputation brought as a former top aide and confidant is being investigated by the U.S. attorney's office in a corruption case involving some of Cuomo's high - profile economic development projects.

«The Ethics Committee finds that Assembly Member McLaughlin revealed information about the nature of the complaint, the name of the complainant, and the results of the Initial McLaughlin Investigation to his confidant and former employee, who is currently an Assembly minority conference employee,» the letter says.

The jury is weighing the government's claims that the 48 - year - old Percoco, longtime confidant and former executive deputy secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, accepted over $ 300,000 in bribes from the businessmen in exchange for providing help they needed from the state.

The push and pull over the control of the economic development spending comes after the arrests last year of prominent upstate developers, former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and an ex-top aide and confidant to the governor, Joe Percoco, in a case stemming from kickbacks and bid rigging related to key economic development spending in New York.

Cuomo is making the proposed changes after the arrests of prominent upstate developers, former SUNY Polytechnic leader Alain Kaloyeros and Joe Percoco, a former top aide and confidant to the governor, in a bribery and bid - rigging case.

Cuomo's former top aide and confidant, Joe Percoco, is being eyed for his role in economic development programs, while he's also received consulting feeds from companies with business before the state.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Jury selection began Monday in the corruption trial of a former aide and longtime close confidant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Those tied to Cuomo are also facing investigations, including his former top aide and confidant Joe Percoco, who received consulting fees from companies with state contracts while running the governor's re-election campaign.

An Iranian - Turkish gold dealer hired two Trump confidants — former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. AG Michael Mukasey — to help defend him against U.S. charges of using his network of companies to circumvent federal sanctions on Iran.

A former aide and confidant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, is under scrutiny as well after it was revealed he received payments from two companies with business in economic development projects while running the governor's re-election campaign.

Investigations also revealed that Akufo Addo drove straight from his Nima Residence to a hospital near the former NDC headquarters in Kokomlemle.The hospital was owned by one Dr Kweku Boadu, a gynaecologist and close confidant of Akufo Addo.

Jury selection in the trial of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo confidant and top aide Joe Percoco and others involved in the Buffalo Billion bribery case starts in NYC today.

At the same time, the administration revealed that two longtime Cuomo confidants, former Executive Deputy Secretary Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, were among the targets of the federal probe into improper lobbying and conflicts of interest.

The complaint announced on Sept. 22 by Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, also resulted in charges against two of Mr. Cuomo's former top aides: Joseph Percoco, who served as his executive deputy secretary and close confidant, and Todd R. Howe, whose relationship with Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, dates back to the days his father, Mario M. Cuomo was governor.

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged in a federal complaint with allegedly engaging in two overlapping schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official benefits.

There is also, of course, the impact of the corruption trial of Cuomo's former close aide and confidant, Joe Percoco, which is now being deliberated by a jury.

Nieves is a confidant of Assemblyman and former Bronx Democratic Party chairman Jose Rivera and helped Rep. Charles Rangel fend off a fierce challenge from state Sen. Adriano Espaillat in last year's Democratic primary for Congress.

Joseph Percoco, former aide and confidant to Gov. Cuomo, arrives for jury selection in his trial in New York in January.

Percoco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's longtime confidant and former executive deputy secretary, is alleged to have taken more than $ 300,000 in bribes from Steve Aiello and Joseph Gerardi of Syracuse - based COR Development and Peter Galbraith Kelly of Competitive Power Ventures.

Development director Ben Kalish was finance director for de Blasio's 2009 public - advocate campaign, it says, and Michael Gaspard, a senior adviser, is the brother of de Blasio confidant and former White House political director Patrick Gaspard.

The conviction capped a stunning fall for the former aide, Joseph Percoco, once the governor's executive deputy secretary and longtime confidant.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo Tuesday afternoon called the conviction of former longtime top aide and confidant Joseph Percoco «personally painful.»

NEW YORK — A wide - ranging corruption trial focused on a former top aide and confidant of Gov. Andrew Cuomo opened in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, co-starring a Connecticut energy lobbyist accused of greasing the administrative skids with $ 7,500 monthly payoffs in attempt to win approval for a controversial power plant.

ALBANY — Charges against a former top aide and decades - long confidant of Gov. Andrew Cuomo could be unsealed as early as Thursday, according to a report posted late Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal.

Michael Caputo, a former senior adviser to the Trump campaign, predicted on CNN that Mueller's team would next try to «jam» Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser and confidant known for incendiary and sometimes conspiratorial claims.

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and longtime confidant to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.), has been found guilty of three counts in his federal corruption trial.

President - elect Barack Obama has chosen his close confidant and former Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to several sources close to the transition.

The wife of a longtime Cuomo family confidant and the governor's former director of state operations both feature prominently in the feds» latest corruption case — even though neither has been charged.

He believes Cuomo is vulnerable, particularly given the federal corruption trials into Cuomo former aides and associates, including longtime confidants Joseph Percoco.

Representative Gibson, a retired Army colonel with 24 years of active - duty experience in the military and six in Congress, was widely seen as the strongest Republican contender to pose a challenge to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who has battled questions over the last several days about a federal investigation into a former top aide and confidant.