Sentences with phrase «left the state payroll»

Then, Percoco told them about money he allegedly got from two Syracuse - area entities, including one whose two top executives are on trial with Percoco, during a period in 2014 when Percoco had left the state payroll — temporarily, as it turned out, to run Cuomo's gubernatorial re-election campaign.

* Someone high up in the administration let Percoco keep his government - issued security swipe card to gain access to his former state office in Manhattan — adjacent to Cuomo's own government office — for eight months in 2014 after he left the state payroll.

«Mr. Percoco had no business working on any official matters or keeping his state office after he left the state payroll, yet the governor's approval of this unethical behavior allowed him to sell his influence.»

The same year, Percoco was running the re-election campaign for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and had left the state payroll.

Percoco left the state payroll in the spring of 2014 to become, once again, Cuomo's campaign committee chairman.

The case brought by Schneiderman alleged two political committees he ostensibly controlled — his own Senate campaign and the Niagara County Republican Committee — steered money to an ex-Maziarz staffer who left the state payroll amid charges of sexual harassment.

According to the state controller's office, Percoco left the state payroll for the Cuomo campaign on April 21, 2014.

Maloney left the state payroll at the end of 2008 to join Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm that hired Michael Garcia, the U.S. Attorney who brought down Spitzer.

Cox also accused the governor of trying to send a message to Vance at at time when the Republicans have formally called on the prosecutor to investigate the Cuomo administration for corruption after it was revealed in a federal trial that Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, continued to use his government office after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's 2014 re-eelction campaign, which would violate state law.

Howe, according to sources, helped former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco obtain at least two consulting clients while Percoco left the state payroll to serve as the governor's campaign manager in 2014.

Agata also volunteered work for Cuomo's 2014 campaign, he testified, and wrote a memo advising Percoco on his post-government work opportunities months after Percoco had left the state payroll.

While Percoco left the state payroll from April to December 2014 to head Cuomo's re-election, prosecutors have charged that he «continued to function in a senior advisory and supervisory role with regard to the Governor's Office during that time period.»

The attorney general alleges Maziarz used a «pass - through scheme» that directed money from his Senate campaign account and the Niagara County GOP to make «secret campaign payments» to a former Senate staff who left the state payroll in the midst of a sexual harassment case.

He's accused of attempting to disguise money he sent to a former staffer of his who left the state payroll when accused of sexually harassment.

She noted that Lacewell testified that Percoco, who is accused of accepting bribes from companies with business before the state, continued to come into his old government office at times after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's campaign.

Public records show that Percoco, who left the state payroll for several months in early 2014 to run Cuomo's re-election campaign, said he received as much as $ 125,000 in still - unexplained «consulting» fees during that year from two companies, COR Development of Syracuse and Albany - based CHA Consulting, which have longstanding dealings and tens of millions of dollars in contracts with the state.

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He has been placed on administrative leave, but remains on the state payroll.

Howe was a lobbyist for the power company; Percoco has acknowledged receiving consulting fees from it while on leave from the state payroll but while working for Cuomo's re-election campaign.

But the state's Business Council opposes the measure, saying they already have enough paperwork to deal with right now implementing the state's new paid family leave program, which also requires a payroll mechanism for employee contributions.

Lacewell was asked by a prosecutor if she ever saw Percoco in Cuomo's government suite of offices in midtown Manhattan after he left the state's payroll that April.

Jay Jacobs, Nassau Democratic chairman, said he was aware that Kaiman was contemplating the move and is not surprised Kaiman is leaving the state jobs because Cuomo does not permit aides to run for office while on the state payroll.

While Percoco took a leave of absence from the attorney general's office to work on Cuomo's 2010 gubernatorial campaign, payroll records from the Office of the State Comptroller show Percoco officially resigned in order to take up his private work in April 2014.

Cuomo also touted heavily in his 2016 speech - and ultimately got approval for - a plan to offer paid family leave that workers themselves would fund - not employers or the state - through voluntary payroll deductions.

James Allen, who joined Team Cuomo as communications director in December, 2015, quietly left his $ 171,000 job on Jan. 22, according to state payroll records.

During the time he was allegedly on the take, Percoco wore two hats for Cuomo — working on the state payroll as his executive deputy secretary and also taking leave between April and December 2014 to manage Cuomo's re-election campaign.

State Senator Marc Panepinto, a Buffalo Democrat, urged his Republican colleagues to get behind a proposal that would fund paid family leave in New York State through a modest payroll deduction of less than a dollar per week.

State workers who are still on the payroll also are being compensated under the settlement in the form of extra days of vacation or personal leave.

Then, in 2008, Supervisor Brian Foley left for greener pastures in the state Senate and sold his soul to New York City leadership with one of the deciding votes to pass the MTA payroll tax.

Much of the settlement is to be awarded to affected employees who are still on the state payroll in the form of extra vacation and personal leave.

Cuomo's plan, presented in conjunction with his State of the State and budget address in January, would create a paid family leave system that would offer up to 12 weeks leave paid for by a weekly, 60 cent payroll deduction.

Meanwhile, New York republicans are directly targeting Governor Cuomo over his relationship with Perococo, pointing at witnesses who have testified that once Percoco left the government payroll and ran Cuomo's campaigns he still reportedly used his state offices.

Percoco may not have been actually on the state payroll when he received the payments; he left from April 21 to December 8, according to records from the State Comptroller, but he was helping run Cuomo's reelection efforts during that time pestate payroll when he received the payments; he left from April 21 to December 8, according to records from the State Comptroller, but he was helping run Cuomo's reelection efforts during that time peState Comptroller, but he was helping run Cuomo's reelection efforts during that time period.

James Allen, who became Cuomo's communications director in December 2015, quietly left his $ 171,000 job last week, according to state payroll records.

It is not clear when Mr. Percoco earned the consulting fees and if they overlapped with his time on the state payroll; he left the administration on April 20, 2014, to work on the governor's successful re-election campaign, and rejoined it on Dec. 8, according to state officials.

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