Sentences with phrase «former lobbying company»

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Eckert, a former Dell executive who co-founded Motion Computing, a tablet company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, met Brooks in a hotel lobby.

Pence's own former congressional chief of staff has lobbied him on behalf of insurance company Aflac, tech giant Microsoft, biofuels trade group Fuels America, and telecom firms Verizon and AT&T.

Recently, the company tapped four former mayors to help lobby city governments.

Another investment they make is that when a legislator is a «friend,» both in the general voting, but, especially, as a member of committees, they get rewarded afterwards with 7 - and 8 - figure «consulting» contracts after they leave office for jobs as lobbyists for companies they were supposed to oversee, lobbying their former colleagues.

The American - owned lobbying firm Teneo Strategy recently hired Oliver, former Number 10 communications director, as a senior managing director to provide «strategic advice» to international companies on a range of issues including Brexit.

(The latter, Baroness Armstrong, will have been in good company, as she was joined in the lobby by Lord Arbuthnot, a former Tory Chief Whip, making his debut as a rebel.)

«Capalino,» says de Blasio with a smile, before going over to chat with the former Koch administration official, who has also lobbied for developers like Avalon Bay and Related Companies, as well as for Krispy Kreme, Equinox and the Museum of the Moving Image.

Yet despite the apparent industry names, the companies are connected to Park Strategies, the powerful Albany lobbying firm founded by former U.S. Senator Al D'Amato.

Public records indicate that between January and June of this year, Genting spent $ 340,000 on lobbying, with $ 100,000 going to the Albany - based government - relations firm Meara Avella Dickinson; $ 25,000 going to Patricia Lynch and Associates, headed by the Assembly speaker's former top aide; $ 195,000 going to Cordo and Company; and $ 20,000 going to Empire Strategic Planning.

Finally, Cameron's former director of strategy Ameet Gill has set up a new lobbying shop «to advise companies in the post-Brexit world».

The lobbying firms the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs are the unnamed companies in the grand jury indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, according to three sources with knowledge of the investigation.

Katie Myler, a former special adviser to Burnham when he was health secretary, now works for international lobbying company, Burson - Marsteller.

Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school companies...

The Last Friday, Environmental Progress (EP) reported that two top former Cuomo aides under federal prosecution for influence - peddling had lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), a natural gas company, to kill Indian Point.

UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew was there, as were Christopher Monckton, a prominent climate change denier, and Canadian Tom Harris, executive director of the «International Climate Science Coalition» — and former operations director of the «High Park Group», a Canadian lobbying company.

In her description of the science, the former prime minister draws heavily on a pamphlet called A plain English guide to climate change which was published in December 1997 by the Reason Foundation, another lobby group that the following year received $ 70,000 from Exxon to «assess public policy alternatives on issues with direct bearing on the company's business operations and interests».»

It concludes that establishing the links between former government officials and the fossil fuel industry highlights «the major potential for conflict of interest», adding: «When one takes into account what is at stake for large fossil fuel companies, and how much lobbying they conduct on climate policy more generally, weak revolving door policy provides another avenue of influence for private fossil fuel interests to exploit».

The company spent just over $ 13 million on lobbying in 2017, with the bulk of the money spent on an in - house lobbying team that's stocked with former Republican and Democratic political aides, according to disclosure records filed with the House and Senate.

«Highly successful tech companies strategically cultivated bipartisan support though lobbying and campaign finance, and a public perception of being benign,» said Raj Goyle, a former Kansas state legislator and ex-Congressional candidate, who now is the co-CEO of legal tech platform Bodhala.