Sentences with phrase «leaking by an aide»

The leadership was rocked by the leaking by an aide to the former Scotland secretary Alistair Carmichael of a private civil service note which claimed that Nicola Sturgeon favoured David Cameron over Ed Miliband.

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The denial by Jay Sekulow, one of several personal lawyers Trump has hired to represent him in the Russia case, is the latest of many examples in which the president's aides and lawyers have scrambled to avert a public - relations mess created by the preident's tweets, off - script remarks or leaked private conversations.

A January 2016 letter from Risa Sugarman, the state Board of Elections» chief enforcement counsel, which was leaked to the Daily News in April, accused de Blasio and his team, including top aide Emma Wolfe, of purposely violating election law by routing donations to three upstate senate candidates by using county committees to avoid donation limits.

Grannis was accused of insubordination by Paterson's top aide, Larry Schwartz, (who is still with the Cuomo administration, at least for the moment), following the leaking of a memo that was critical of staffing cuts at the DEC..

Albany insiders predict that state Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman's days are numbered if Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. doesn't agree with her recently leaked finding that Mayor Bill de Blasio and several political aides broke the law by raising large sums of campaign cash for state Senate candidates.

Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin is the latest state lawmaker to face accusations of sexual harassment, sanctioned on Wednesday by Speaker Carl Heastie after he was accused of asking a legislative aide for nude photos, lying about it and leaking her name.

Several Democrats also said there's widespread speculation that Cuomo had a hand in leaking the board's January memo on Friday — just days after Senate Democrats backed by de Blasio won a major special election on Long Island — that accused de Blasio and his top aides of involvement in an illegal fund - raising scheme to help elect Democrats to the Senate.

Update, 5:17 p.m. The director of the state's top ethics oversight panel violated state law by leaking details about an investigation into former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration to one of Mr. Spitzer's aides, according to a blistering report released on Wednesday by State Inspector General Joseph Fisch.

Well, actually, by Paterson's top aide, Larry Schwartz, who accused Grannis of insubordination, among other things, in the wake of a leaked memo that criticized the administration's planned staffing cuts at the agency.

Details about alleged interference in an ethics probe by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's aides are leaking out daily, and most newspapers have run critical editorials.