Howe, the former president of
lobbying firm Whiteman Osterman Hanna Government Solutions, has longstanding ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Howe worked for Washington - based WOH Government Solutions, a subsidiary of the Albany - based law and
lobbying firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna.
Not exact matches
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna is one of New York's largest and most prominent legal and
lobbying firms.
Howe was banned from
lobbying the administration and last month stopped working at the Albany - based
firm of
Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna.
For years, Syracuse University has contracted
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna - an Albany law
firm - to
lobby on its behalf with New York state officials.
New York's
lobbying firms can somehow retroactively wipe the names of their employees from state records — an erasure that happened recently in the case of Howe and his former employer, the Albany law
firm Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna.
Several of those companies were clients of Howe, a lobbyist and consultant who is another longtime Cuomo associate who formerly ran a Washington, D.C. - based
lobbying branch of the Albany - based law
firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna.
Ciminelli lawyer Daniel Oliverio said neither Howe nor anyone from
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna has
lobbied for the developer's
firm.
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.»
The memo reportedly said that all 11 of the expected attendees were clients of Howe's
lobbying firm's parent company, the Capital Region - based law
firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna.
Howe then worked for Andrew Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before going in to the private sector, eventually landing with
Whiteman Osterman Hanna, one of the largest and most politically connected
lobbying and law
firms in Albany.
The Daily News reported Friday that a spokesman for
Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna confirmed that Howe was fired last week as president of the law
firm's
lobbying subsidiary, WOH Government Solutions.
A spokeswoman for McGuire confirmed to the Times Union that its CEO James McGuire attended the Cuomo fundraiser, but emphasized that the
firm has never been a client of either
Whiteman Osterman or Howe's
lobbying subsidiary «and we have never paid either
firm any fees» or «been solicited to be a client of either
firm or asked to pay any fees, either.»
Several of those companies were clients of lobbyist and consultant Todd Howe, another longtime Cuomo associate who formerly ran a Washington, D.C. - based
lobbying branch of the Albany - based law
firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna.
Mr. Howe testified that when he seemed to equivocate on finding Mr. Percoco a position with
Whiteman Osterman and Hanna, the Albany - based
lobbying firm for which Mr. Howe worked, Mr. Percoco told him that «he had gotten approval from the governor himself» to work for the
firm.
Howe, who grew up in Troy, had served as president of WOH Government Solutions, the Washington, D.C.,
lobbying subsidiary of the region's largest law
firm,
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna of Albany.
One is Todd Howe, a Washington - based lobbyist, who until very recently was employed by the
lobbying wing of the
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna law
firm, and whose work touched a number of construction projects under federal scrutiny from the Buffalo Billion, to Syracuse to downstate.
Lawyers from
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, the Albany law and
lobbying firm retained by LPCiminelli and that employed lobbyist Todd Howe, who did work at the same time for the state - created not - for - profit corporation that awarded the Buffalo Billion contract.
Yet since the beginning of 2015, Regan has been listed in the
firm's
lobbying filings as a lobbyist for 64 different
Whiteman Osterman clients, including many with business before the Cuomo administration.