Sentences with phrase «lobbying clients»

His list of lobbying clients has included school superintendents, school employee professional organizations, school boards, private schools, private universities, and the world's largest education services corporation.

Most of the largest lobbying clients were health care or education concerns.

Those classes spent the 2012 election only listening to their donors and lobbying clients until the only world they could imagine was the world their donors described.

That group spent over $ 16 million between 2011 and 2012, finishing as the state's highest - spending lobby client in each of those years, but ceased operations when statutory changes would have required it to begin identifying who funded it.

JCOPE has not updated its downloadable database with records past June 2014 — information submitted since then is available only by searching for lobbying clients whose names are already know — so it is not yet possible to perform a universal analysis on activity in September and October of this year.

Like 1199, a relative quieting of the public debate over the healthcare sections of budgets under Cuomo has led to a decrease in GNYHA's spending, but it still finished as the state's highest - spending lobby client in a recent bi-monthly reporting period.

Specifically, these charities will need to file reports with the Department of Law disclosing any donations of over $ 2,500 they have made to 501 (c)(4) s that are registered as lobby clients.

Hart's individual lobbying clients include liquefied natural gas exporter Cheniere Energy Inc..

JCOPE has not updated its downloadable database with records past June 2014 — information submitted since then is available only by searching for lobbying clients whose names are already know — so it is not yet possible to perform a universal analysis on activity in September and October of this year.

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.

According to the APPC register, the firm's most recent lobbying clients include the multinational building materials company Tarmac and the personal injury lawyers Thomsons Solicitors.

For example the firm of the Assembly Speaker's former press secretary, Patricia Lynch Associates, netted nearly $ 8 million dollars form lobbying clients.

Nevada's Sen. John Ensign, for example, had an affair with the wife of a staff member, a man who was then paid $ 96,000 by Ensign's parents and who said the senator helped him line up lobbying clients.

Howe's name is also gone from the filings for LPCiminelli and COR Development, which officially became Whiteman Osterman lobbying clients this spring.

The Mason Tenders also made a rare appearance as one of the state's top - spending lobby clients last year; as a group it supported spent nearly $ 1.3 million in the first six months in support of a prevailing wage requirement in an attempt to renew 421 - a tax credits.

While Families for Excellent Schools» 2015 lobbying effort fell to $ 3.4 million from $ 9.7 million the year before, the group's total was still likely enough to place it among the five biggest lobby clients in the state.

The Washington Post reported that Holmstead filied a new lobbying disclosure indicating he has dropped all of his longtime lobbying clients, including Duke Energy and Ameren, which he has represented since 2007.

ERCC itself is a Holmstead lobbying client.

Azzopardi noted the while Cuomo hasn't gotten many of his highest - ticket reform items passed, he has indeed succeeded over the years in items like the disclosure of outside income for legislators and new reporting requirements for lobbying clients.

The list of New York's ten largest lobby clients in 2015, released by JCOPE last month, showed that spending was dominated by some relatively new players on the political scene.

His firm Park Strategies is the go - to consulting and PR source for Republican candidates, and takes on a growing list of lobbying clients each year.

Michael Cohen reportedly referred five possible clients to Squire Patton Boggs during his strategic alliance with the firm, including one that appears to be a top lobbying client.

ALBANY — The list of New York's ten largest lobby clients in 2015, released by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics last month, showed that spending was dominated by some relatively new players on the political scene.

The lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt at $ 50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client about the time Pruitt moved out, according to a newly released EPA memo.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The lobbyist whose wife rented a condo to Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt at $ 50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client, according to a newly released EPA memo.

It is not clear Hart had direct contact with the EPA on behalf of any of his lobbying clients in 2017, according to a Bloomberg News review of disclosures.

The memo from last August released Wednesday shows that the lobbyist whose wife had rented a condo to Pruitt for $ 50 a night sought EPA committee posts for a lobbying client.

The charges, which originated in a probe of Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» development plan, said in one scheme Howe funneled more than $ 320,000 in bribes to Percoco to give favored treatment to lobbying clients.

«He once took a $ 500,000 fee for making one phone call to fix a MTA contract and his brother once famously forged a letter on US Senate stationary for a lobby client.

Last year, 1,559 lobby clients spent $ 50,000 or more, about a hundred of whom disclosed; 1,393 spent between $ 15,000 and $ 50,000.

She tried to convince top staffers at the state comptroller's office to approve investments proposed by her lobbying clients, and althoguh she was given preferred access to these staffers, her efforts were eventually rebuffed.

Harold M. Ickes, a longtime friend and mentor of Mayor Bill de Blasio, delivered about $ 13,000 in donations last week to the mayor's re-election campaign, on the day that one of his lobbying clients received the de Blasio administration's go - ahead to hold a lucrative music festival in New York City.

Howe was also present at the meeting, though he again did not register STV as a lobbying client in New York.

Percoco, 48, of South Salem, is charged with taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes set up by Howe from three lobbying clients, a power company executive and two Syracuse developers.

The damaging admission climaxed a second day of rough cross examination in Manhattan federal court for ex-lobbyist Howe, whose credibility is critical to prosecution claims that he guided more than $ 300,000 in bribes from two lobbying clients to old friend Percoco, Cuomo's right - hand man.

Just look at the Evan's list of lobbying clients and what committee's his powerful mommy sits on in the MESS that is Albany.

The frequent overlap between the interests of politicians, political consultants who double as lobbyists, and their lobbying clients has drawn attention from good - government groups in recent years.

D'Amato was also described as a «frequent and friendly presence» for his lobbying clients at Cuomo's Capitol offices.

The group, along with an affiliated organization, Vocal - N.Y., filed a complaint with the state ethics commission in March arguing that the Committee to Save New York should register Mr. Cuomo as its lobbying client.

A number of Paul Vallone's major campaign contributors are among his lobbying clients.

Capalino had donated $ 10,000 to the campaign and bundled an additional $ 90,000 in contributions from nine of his lobbying clients.

There will be an absolute requirement to publish all client lists, and lawyers will be forced to disclose their lobbying clients.

Harold Ickes, a veteran political consultant and longtime friend and mentor of de Blasio, delivered about $ 13,000 in donations last week to the mayor's re-election campaign — the same day that one of his lobbying clients received the de Blasio administration's go - ahead to hold a lucrative music festival in New York City.

On the last day of session, lawmakers rapidly passed a bill that increased disclosure requirements on a number of non-governmental entities such as independent expenditure committees, lobby clients and political consultants.

But an examination of the seven years from 2007 through 2013 shows the spending by Families for Excellent Schools in September and October 2014 was significantly higher than the totals for any lobby clients in these previous years.

This was the highest total of any lobby client during the years for which records are available, but it was only 48.34 percent of what Families for Excellent Schools spent this year.