Sentences with phrase «group of aides»

President Obama also wanted to keep using a smartphone, but when he assumed office, he traded in his BlackBerry for a secure, encrypted device that had most smartphone features turned off and could only communicate with a preselected group of aides who also had secure devices.

Recently a group of aides met to think up lines for the next TV election debate.

The leader's team is seen preparing him for PMQs with a group of aides, including one who played the part of David Cameron.

Bannon's rivals, led by senior White House adviser and presidential son - in - law Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn — and with the crucial backing of President Trump's daughter Ivanka — are an informal group of aides that has been pushing for the administration to take a more establishment - friendly turn.

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The New York City Council and a local tenants rights group announced on Monday that they would launch a joint investigation into the real estate company formerly headed by Jared Kushner, a top aide to President Donald Trump, over alleged falsification of building permits.

Embarrassingly for the government, the group of MPs associated with the latest revolt includes Suella Fernandes and Steve Baker, respectively senior aides to Treasury chief Philip Hammond and to the U.K.'s chief Brexit negotiator David Davis.

Democrats have accused Trump of firing Comey to upend the FBI's Russia probe, which focused in large part on whether campaign aides coordinated with Moscow to hack Democratic groups during the election.

A power struggle between a group of political appointees and Shulkin and his longtime aides at the agency has divided the top ranks of the VA for months.

A former aide to a Sonoma County supervisor is the new executive director of the Rebuild North Bay group aiming to coordinate fire - recovery efforts in multiple counties.

Separately Wednesday, an environmental group released EPA emails it had obtained from a freedom - of - information lawsuit showing a former lobbyist for foreign governments persistently pitching Pruitt aides on a proposed official trip to Australia last summer.

(CNN)-- A group of more than 100 prominent Christians ranging from evangelical minister Jim Wallis on the political left to Nixon White House aide Chuck Colson on the right released a document Thursday calling for an end to the fight club tone of the national political discourse

Talk about the aide that people who are victims of disasters or violence receive from humanitarian groups, and discuss ways that she may help, such as by working with her school to raise money for the victims.

Multiple White House aides said Hicks's decision to leave was unrelated to her appearance before the House committee, insisting she told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to resign, partly because she never liked Washington and chose not to try to pretend to.

The legislation, backed by good - government groups, was initially proposed in the wake of the corruption charges filed against former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros, former close gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco and upstate developers.

The Blackstone Group, a hedge fund that is among opponents of closing the carried interest loophole at the state level, is home — once again — to ex-top Cuomo administration aide Bill Mulrow, who is chairing the governor's 2018 campaign.

A coalition of progressive groups sent a letter calling on Gov. Cuomo to cancel all state permits for the Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) natural gas power plant that is central to the trial of Joseph Percoco, the governor's long - time friend and former aide.

A year before the indictment of top Cumo aides and important Upstate business leaders, leading transparency and fiscal watchdog groups warned that the state's use of a mixture of non-profit groups like Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, SUNY Polytechnic and SUNY Research Foundation to award business subsidy contracts «[b] lurred responsibility and reduced the accountability for decisions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.»

Testimony at the trial of Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, has highlighted some practices inside the governor's office that government reform groups say is at the very least questionable, and possibly even illegal.

Testimony at the trial of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, has highlighted some practices inside the governor's office that government reform groups say is at the very least questionable, and possibly even illegal.

During the mayoral primary, «NYCLASS's political consultant Scott Levenson of the Advance Group (a lobbying and consulting firm) told two Quinn aides that if she wouldn't back a ban on the horse and carriage industry, the group would launch a campaign to bring her Group (a lobbying and consulting firm) told two Quinn aides that if she wouldn't back a ban on the horse and carriage industry, the group would launch a campaign to bring her group would launch a campaign to bring her down.

On Tuesday, he took his campaign of affability a step further: he asked a group of city officials to join him at Yankee Stadium, for the team's opening home game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, aides confirmed.

A New York Times report alleges that a senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo interfered with the work of the Moreland Commission, the group the governor appointed to investigate corruption in Albany.

The Parkside Group, a NYC - based consulting / lobbying firm that is a favorite of the Senate Democrats, has hired a former aide to now - Gov.

Blair Horner, with the government reform organization New York Public Interest Research Group, says if the commission were truly independent it would be a good idea, following the corruption convictions of the former legislative leaders and a former top aide to Cuomo.

In the 21st Congressional District in upstate New York, outside groups came to the rescue of former Bush administration aide Elise Stefanik, in her primary battle against investment fund manager Matt Doheny.

Among MPs from the 2015 intake who could win promotion are government aides such as Suella Fernandes, the head of the party's European Research Group, and Seema Kennedy, the PM's parliamentary private secretary.

A yearslong investigation into the Working Families Party, the influential left - leaning group that helped fuel the rise of Mayor Bill de Blasio, has resulted in the indictments of two former aides to a Staten Island city councilwoman.

In the first year of the group's existence, Cuomo's aides said the governor hadn't coordinated with it; they later focused on arguing that coordination with groups like this «is wholly proper, common and necessary.»

Tabone, 46, is also an aide to Republican John Catsimatidis, the wealthy Gristedes owner who is running for mayor this fall, working on the campaign and as a lawyer in the real estate department of Red Apple Group since 2008.

Under the direction of a political advocacy group backed by Colorado software mogul Tim Gill, two former top Senate Republican aides and a former legislative adviser to the Log Cabin Republicans are working behind the scenes to capture crucial votes in the GOP - led Senate.

Cuomo denies he'd punish nonprofits for opposing him, though his aides did call City Council members and ask them not to attend a rally Thursday in support of the groups.

The State Department has agreed to a conservative legal group's request to question several current and former government officials — including top Clinton aide Huma Abedin — about the creation of the former secretary of state's private email system.

The governor's aides worked with several advocacy groups, including the Brady Campaign in Washington, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in San Francisco, to develop a package of measures that would be comprehensive but also politically achievable.

The investigation — which has involved other groups and the offices of other Council members — has been ongoing for two years and has already pulled in indictments of two former aides to Councilman Kendall Stewart for embezzlement.

The weeks before the recess were a difficult time for Balls, with a mis - sent email from Ed Miliband's aide Torsten Bell describing him as a «nightmare», Conservative attacks over his acceptance in 2012 of a # 50,000 donation from the Co-operative Group, and calls by some Labour MPs for his removal following his much - criticised response to Osborne's Autumn Statement.

Add to that the fact that the commission has already been dogged for meeting in private, for answering to a longtime Cuomo aide, and for failing to investigate complaints by good government groups regarding Cuomo's use of third - party groups for lobbying.

«He's on the list, and if there wasn't this enormous gravitational pull toward Hillary, he'd be at the top of it,» said Matt Bennett, a former aide to Bill Clinton and Al Gore and co-founder of the moderate Democratic group Third Way.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of Washington came in a lawsuit over public records brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group, regarding its May 2013 request for information about the employment arrangement of Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide.

Aides particularly took note of Hillary Clinton's weak performance in New Hampshire, where she got thumped by 21 points and lost to Sanders among virtually every voting group, including women.

ALBANY — After a report last week that gubernatorial aides were involving themselves with a supposedly independent anti-corruption panel, a major good - government group has written a letter voicing concern that such interference would be «a shocking waste of the momentum for meaningful change which its appointment created.»

The negotiations have been conducted by a tiny group of legislative leaders and President Obama's top aides.

Cuomo has been dogged by questions about his handling of the anti-corruption panel he created last year, and dismantled this spring, after the Times reported that a top aide pressured the commission not to investigate groups with ties to the governor.

Testimony at the trial of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's former top aide, Joe Percoco, has highlighted some practices inside the Democrat's office that government reform groups say is at the very least questionable, and possibly even illegal.

The whole Whatsapp Group fight appears to have been triggered by Stan Dogbe, the trusted aide of former President John Mahama, who is making every effort to lead the NDC for the 2020 elections when he accused former Deputy Health Minister, Rojo Mettle - Nunoo of being «bitter about funds.»

On May 28, 2013, months after stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton sent an email to a group of diplomats and top aides about the «123 Deal» with the United Arab Emirates.

-- Mercury Public Affairs, the consulting and lobbying firm founded by a group of former Pataki administration aides / advisors that has since expanded to several states, has hired Dan Cho to its New York government relations team.

A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has attributed the ongoing rift between members of a Nigerian music group, the P - Square to the call for separation and restructuring by several groups in the country.

His congressional race comes after many years spent as a congressional aide and as founder of Demilitarization for Democracy, a Washington lobbying group.

According a report in Capital New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo is planning a rally in support of tougher rent regulations, with aides reaching out to officials about attending the event even as tenant groups question his commitment to the issue.

Stringer's conclusion may excite a surge of hope in Bradley Tusk, the former aide to ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg who founded the group NYC Deserves Better to try and dislodge de Blasio.