Sentences with phrase «lobbying firm $»

Airbnb paid the lobbying firm $ 150K in 2015 to lobby the Brooklyn borough president and City Council members, and the company also made a $ 32,000 contribution to Adams» nonprofit, the One Brooklyn Fund.

Not exact matches

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

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.

Smithfield Foods paid at least $ 280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart's firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

** Enbridge Inc denied conflict of interest claims on Tuesday after a media report found that the head of United States energy regulator had been paying $ 50 a day for a property near Capitol Hill linked to the chairman of a key Washington lobby firm that represents the Calgary - based pipeline company.

For example, one study finds that for each dollar spent lobbying for a tax break, firms received returns in excess of $ 220.

King never registered as a lobbyist for these minority firms but he did register, through one of his lobbying firms, for a company that was picked to manage $ 30 million of pension funds, Plainfield Asset Management.

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.

In addition, GKM Newport Generation Capital Services will pay the equivilent of $ 1.6 million, California lobbying firm Platinum Advisors will pay $ 500,000; and unlicensed placement agent Kevin McCabe (a former political strategist for ex-NYC Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr.) will pay $ 715,000.

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP remained the state's top lobbying firm spending $ 10.3 million last year.

The top lobbying firm in Albany in 2015 was Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, which received $ 10.5 million in compensation and reimbursements.

The top lobbying firm is Wilson, Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, earning over $ 11 million.

«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.

A federal indictment handed down on Thursday alleged former state Senate Majority Leader Skelos strong - armed a medical malpractice insurance firm to provide his son, Adam, with more than $ 100,000 in payments and health benefits through a no - show job while the firm lobbied Skelos on legislative matters.

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.

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.

Empire Government Strategies took in $ 284,500, a minuscule amount when compared with the largest New York lobbying firms but enough to land it third on a list of fastest - growing firms, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group report.

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.

The number one lobbying firm is Wilson, Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, earning over $ 11 million.

It paid the firm $ 60,000 a year to lobby state officials.

Burris and his lobbying firm also donated $ 22,295 to Blagojevich's campaign, according to MyFOXChicago.com.

Saratoga Harness Racing Inc, part - owned by Albany greybeard James Featherstonhaugh, has employed his firm, Featherstonhaugh, Wiley and Clyne, to the tune of $ 45,000, to lobby the state government on gaming.

Public records indicate that between January and June of this year, Genting spent $ 340,000 on lobbying, with $ 100,000 going to the Albany - based government - relations firm Meara Avella Dickinson; $ 25,000 going to Patricia Lynch and Associates, headed by the Assembly speaker's former top aide; $ 195,000 going to Cordo and Company; and $ 20,000 going to Empire Strategic Planning.

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.

Not many are $ 79.5 K. I can see a 15 - 20 % allowance for outside earnings but attorneys like Flanagan should not get between $ 150 - 250K when they do no actual legal work on behalf of clients — and especially when the law firm he works for has a lobbying division that attempts to influence decision that come before him.

In 2015, Empire Outlets paid consultant firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin LLC — where Molinaro works a senior managing director — $ 67,500 to lobby on their behalf with Borough President James Oddo, according to Office of the City Clerk records.

Wynn Resorts is the latest major casino company to contract with a New York lobbyist, inking a six - month, $ 60,000 deal this month with Albany lobbying firm LJM Rad.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics settled its case against Fred Hiffa, formerly of Ostroff, Hiffa, & Associates, Inc., following allegations that he had violated the state's lobbying gift ban in 2006 by hiring Matthew Libous in 2006, retaining the Binghamton lawmaker's son for $ 4,166 a month for one year to a Westchester County - based law firm.

Records show the consulting firm that formed the advocacy organization subsequently signed a $ 20,000 - a-month lobbying contract with a New York City taxi company.

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.

A settlement reached between lobbying regulators and a non-profit entity Pledged 2 Protect won't result in a fine, but it is likely to show real - estate firm Glenwood Management funded it to the tune of $ 690,000.

Lobbying receipts rose to an all - time high of $ 86 million in New York City last year, boosted in part by a single - firm record of nearly $ 13 million for an outfit headed by one of de Blasio's friends and fundraisers.

And Theresa Marangas, a partner at top Albany lobbying firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, had her firm fork over $ 68,857 to Cuomo's war chest.

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

Bharara's office argued in its sentencing memorandum that as part of Matthew Libous» hiring, his father had arranged for an Albany lobbying firm, Ostroff Hiffa, to pay $ 50,000 of Matthew's annual salary.

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.

According to lobbying filings, Uber itself spent $ 711,169 in January and February for television, mail and billboard advertisements, its own roster of in - house lobbyists and contracts with four firms who lobby the state and various localities.

As Glenwood was lobbying Skelos about rent laws, Skelos pressured an executive at the firm, identified by sources as senior vice president Charles Dorego, to arrange a $ 20,000 payment to his son Adam that prosecutors say was disguised as a commission for title work which he did not perform.

Howe Caverns signed a $ 12,000 per month deal with Park Strategies, Al D'Amato's lobbying firm, for April to July 2014.

A signed contract between the lobbying firm in March 2016 and Ciminelli's company said Whiteman Osterman & Hanna would be paid $ 55,000 in 2016 «to provide legislative and regulatory counsel.»

In response to my post this morning about the close to $ 1 million Madison County has paid to retain former Sen. Al D'Amato's lobbying firm, Park Strategies, since 2008, NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney sought to put that number into perspective.

The company also paid Howe $ 474,000 over a five - year period, in addition to $ 332,000 paid to Howe's lobbying firm, prosecutors say.

Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.

Lawmakers would have to name names only if a client were actively seeking something from state government AND the lawmaker either personally lobbied for that client or referred the client to his or her firm AND the client was paying the lawmaker or his or her firm $ 10,000 or more.

In 2007, the latest figures available, Lynch's lobbying firm was the state's second largest, taking in $ 6.7 million in client fees and expenses.

Kasirer Consulting, one of the industry's go - to lobbying firms, raked in $ 10.4 million last year in compensation and reimbursed expenses.

Barrella works for lobbying firm Capital Group, which was employed by Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers, the company that gave Adam a $ 78,000 job for which he wasn't qualified.

The firm's most recent client is the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregation of America, which this month began paying Jenkins» firm $ 15,000 a month through the end of next year to lobby on education funding.

The trial lawyers, who had a close relationship with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, employ their own small army of top lobbying firms and spent a combined $ 687,700 on campaign contributions in 2015, making their organization, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the second largest donor in the state.