Sentences with phrase «from lobbying firm»

The FBI was investigating allegations that Mr. Libous had obtained a job for his son at a law firm in exchange for a promise of steering future business to the firm, and for steering $ 50,000 annually from a lobbying firm to the law firm in question, according to the indictment.

Mangone testified that Libous, a Republican, then steered money from a lobbying firm that employed Fred Hiffa, his longtime associate, to the law firm where Libous's son worked to help increase his salary from $ 100,000 to $ 150,000.

It comes as new research from lobbying firm Westminster Public Affairs puts Tom Watson and Stella Creasy as clear joint favourites for the deputy leadership among Labour candidates.

Over the last few campaign cycles Micah Kellner took in around $ 4,000 from lobbying firm Connelly, McLaughlin & Woloz, and from the principals of the firm, and from Brenda Levin and George Arzt, other Rose Group lobbyists.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

Not exact matches

During the summit held on Monday, attendees from various technology companies, lobbying groups, and law firms, gathered to discuss India's growing economy and its impact on U.S. businesses.

On Monday, the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), a lobby group for U.K. firms, revised its forecasts to predict gross domestic product (GDP) growth will pull back to 1.1 percent in 2017 from 2.1 percent this year.

The lobbying records show Dick's hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC - based government affairs firm, for «[l] obbying related to gun control.»

The most common argument you hear from the pass - through lobby (which includes, notably, lobbying firms themselves, who organize as partnerships) is that pass - throughs face a higher rate than C corporations.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Squire Patton Boggs (the law firm where Cohen's office was raided by the FBI last week) generated over $ 98 million in lobby fees from 2014 through 2017.

Furnival was once chairman of APA and chief economist for Cadbury, but Nash has insisted there is no conflict of interest because he «receives no income» from a «shareholding» in his wife's lobbying firm and the firm has promised not to lobby her or the health minister, Peter Dutton.

Malito split (not amicably) from the lobbying and law firm Davidoff Malito & Hutcher (now Davidoff Hutcher & Citron) two years ago.

Revelations about «embarrassing» strategems used by a lobbying firm have prompted further demands for reform from Labour.

In addition to recovering $ 170 million, Cuomo fined the high - powered lobbying firm run by Patricia Lynch for $ 500,000 and banned her from appearing before the comptroller's office for five years.

Residents of his district deserve to know: Did he seek approval from the Legislative Ethics Commission, as required, before he moved to lobby for his law firm and their labor pals?»

The paper also reported that more than half of that cash has come from the biggest players in Albany: Labor unions, the real estate and construction industries, the health care sector and lobbying firms.

This just reminds voters that like O'Mara's second paycheck from a registered lobbying firm, Albany won't fix itself and we need change.»

In our eyes, JCOPE will have little credibility until new laws are passed which prohibit the Committee from appointing an executive director, or senior managers, who have worked for a sitting governor, attorney general, comptroller, the legislature, or a firm which lobbies the state of New York.

Former House members and ex-senators are barred from lobbying their former colleagues immediately, but they still can work for lobbying firms.

«It's time for John Faso to stop lying to the voters, no amount of false advertising will obscure the truth that John Faso and his firm were sanctioned by the Attorney General, banned from lobbying for five years and paid a $ 500,000 fine,» said spokesman David O'Connell.

Gill is accused of breaking the rules on lobbying by setting up his firm and securing clients without getting the green light from the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba).

As a result of this investigation, Howe was fired in 2016 from his job at Whitman Osterman & Hanna Government Solutions, a Washington lobbying firm with ties to an Albany law firm.

Howe was banned from lobbying the administration and last month stopped working at the Albany - based firm of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna.

The ethics board launched the non-criminal investigation in January of last year, alleging she acted improperly by accepting help from the Advance Group — a lobbying firm which has business dealings with the city.

According to one member of Heaney's team, «John Faso and his firm were banned [from lobbying in Albany] for five years over the pension scandal.

The governor received large sums from three hedge fund managers, two other individuals involved in finance, a lobby firm and a technology company's CEO.

Cuomo holds his father and his legacy in a sacrosanct state, making the kicker of the letter a real punch to the solar plexus and will do little to advance either man's relationship (part of this bad blood may stem from way back in 2010, when then - Attorney General Cuomo settled with the lobbying firm Faso worked for as part of a major pay - to - play pension fund scandal).

That question from a reader in the wake of a CityandState report that casino mogul Steve Wynn has inked a six - month, $ 60,000 deal this month with the Albany - based lobbying firm spurred me to do a little a Internet searching.

ALBANY — The federal indictment handed up Thursday against former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, alleges Adam Skelos earned $ 100,000 in payments and health benefits from a no - show job at a medical malpractice insurance firm that was simultaneously lobbying the state.

Giuliani administration veteran John Mascialino oversees the firm's city lobbying operation, which last year took in fees from developers including Fetner, Jeffrey Gershon and Slate Property Group.

The indictment adds one allegation not included in the complaint, stating that Adam Skelos received more than $ 100,000 in payments and health benefits from a no - show job with an unidentified medical malpractice insurance firm that was «actively lobbying» his father on legislative matters.

His bid to shift to the other chamber of the state legislature was only possible with the blessing of Congressman Joe Crowley, the Queens political boss; his campaign is backed by the unions — including the UFT, SEIU 1199, and 32BJ — who have the most clout in Albany; and Peralta's campaign strategist is from the Parkside Group, a firm that is amassing a list of Senate electoral clients nearly as long as its list of corporate lobbying clients.

Delgado has so much from a huge NYC lobbying firm he will vote whichever way they tell him.

Bamberger says he isn't doing any lobbying for the group (he's prohibited by state ethics laws from doing so) but said the new advocacy group has retained its own lobbying firm, Bogdan, Lasky & Frazier LLC.

McLaughlin's largest contribution was $ 1,300 from State & Broadway State PAC, a lobbying firm, however most of the money raised has come from small, individual donors.

The candidates» largest contributions came from engineering and lobbying firms as well as an Amsterdam business and its affiliates.

Martins said that the younger Skelos» attendance prompted a visit from former senator Al D'Amato, whose lobbying firm was retained by PRI in recent years, to the elder Skelos» office.

And when Miranda's firm, the MirRam group, submitted a subsequent December disclosure about the purpose of its lobbying work, the description was taken nearly verbatim from a Klein press release distributed after the Oct. 27 news conference.

Sen. Tom Libous faces one count of making a false statement to the FBI stemming from an investigation in whether he arranged for his son to receive a job at a prominent Westchester COunty law firm paid for by a lobbying organization.

Steve Howell is said to be taking an indefinite leave of absence from lobbying and PR firm Freshwater to take up the role with the Labour leader.

Taking the title of VP, head of global comms and policy, she will advise the firm on how to lobby the government, although Rogers is banned from becoming personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of Deliveroo for two years after leaving office.

A top executive at an «incubator» office - space firm bundled the largest contribution to de Blasio's re-election bid from her bosses and others — while the company was lobbying the city over a Financial District conversion project.

Osborne is not allowed to lobby ministers on behalf of the firm for at least two years since leaving the Treasury, and is not able to draw on «privileged» information available to him from his time as Chancellor.

The environment secretary has just appointed a new special adviser, James Starkie, from the successful PR and lobbying firm Portland.

The letter from Ecology and Environment Inc. «s in - house counsel Colleen Mullaney - Westfall asserts that the firm has never been a corporate member of the Independent Oil and Gas Association, one of the key energy lobbying organizations pushing for the state to allow high - volume hydrofracking.

The consultant firm that has been deeply critical of an advisory opinion from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics called on Monday for the resignation of the lobbying and ethics watchdog's chairman.

Instead, Ryan filed an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics pointing to testimony in a Yonkers corruption trial from disbarred attorney Anthony Mangone that alleged Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm paid for by $ 50,000 from a lobbying organization.

New York's lobbying firms can somehow retroactively wipe the names of their employees from state records — an erasure that happened recently in the case of Howe and his former employer, the Albany law firm Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna.

The firm in Spring Valley where Mr. Karben, a Columbia Law School graduate, had been a partner for three years wasted no time in removing his name from the lobby directory.

Ciminelli lawyer Daniel Oliverio said neither Howe nor anyone from Whiteman Osterman & Hanna has lobbied for the developer's firm.