Sentences with phrase «lobbying firm as»

The charges against Matthew Libous include that he failed to identify a lobbying firm as the source of payments that he had received through a law firm.

The candidates» largest contributions came from engineering and lobbying firms as well as an Amsterdam business and its affiliates.

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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.

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

He was previously monitored under a separate FISA authorization that began in 2014, the report said, as part of an investigation into US lobbying firms» undisclosed work for the Ukrainian government.

In April 2000, bare months after opening its doors, the lobbying firm registered with Congress as representatives of the British Columbia Lumber Trade Council.

Some of the nation's biggest investment firms such as BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors are lobbying for more women board members.

The most common argument you hear from the pass - through lobby (which includes, notably, lobbying firms themselves, who organize as partnerships) is that pass - throughs face a higher rate than C corporations.

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.

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.

Graeme Wilson has been hired by the financial lobbying firm Tulchan Communications as a partner.

Residents of his district deserve to know: Did he seek approval from the Legislative Ethics Commission, as required, before he moved to lobby for his law firm and their labor pals?»

However, Wright, who recently left public office to work for a lobbying firm, intends to remain as Manhattan County Democratic Chair which he describes as an «insiders game.»

The ex-congressman now has a lucrative gig as a lobbyist in former U.S. Senator Al D'Amato's lobbying and consulting firm, Park Strategies.

GEORGE PATAKI WILL LOBBY ON TARIFFS: Former New York Gov. George Pataki has registered to lobby on President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariffs for Borusan Mannesmann, a Turkish firm that describes itself as «Europe's leading steel pipe manufacturer.&rLOBBY ON TARIFFS: Former New York Gov. George Pataki has registered to lobby on President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariffs for Borusan Mannesmann, a Turkish firm that describes itself as «Europe's leading steel pipe manufacturer.&rlobby on President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariffs for Borusan Mannesmann, a Turkish firm that describes itself as «Europe's leading steel pipe manufacturer.»

After they were elected, Ms. Cunningham deregistered as a lobbyist to «avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest and resigned her job at a top lobbying firm.

It's never been entirely clear, though it may be related to the MirRam Group, the powerful consulting and lobbying firm that has long counted Espaillat and Klein as clients.

Lobbying \ consulting firms swelled in power and prestige as the heyday of the old clubhouse bosses came to an end.

«Speaker Silver put my appeal in the hands of a lobbying firm, assuming they would also do his bidding because it was in their financial interest, but when they showed a shred of fairness Speaker Silver, making this up as he goes along, decided to ignore his hand picked appeals officer and ham handily invoke double jeopardy,» he said.

The American - owned lobbying firm Teneo Strategy recently hired Oliver, former Number 10 communications director, as a senior managing director to provide «strategic advice» to international companies on a range of issues including Brexit.

Paul Vallone works for his father's lobbying firm and is attached to the old Vallone & Vallone law firm, which now serves largely as an «of counsel» answering service for Sacco & Fillas, another Queens law firm.

As a result of this investigation, Howe was fired in 2016 from his job at Whitman Osterman & Hanna Government Solutions, a Washington lobbying firm with ties to an Albany law firm.

She spent six years in the political and regulatory team at the well - known City - based lobbying firm Finsbury before a brief stint as a public affairs adviser at Sainsbury's.

Cuomo holds his father and his legacy in a sacrosanct state, making the kicker of the letter a real punch to the solar plexus and will do little to advance either man's relationship (part of this bad blood may stem from way back in 2010, when then - Attorney General Cuomo settled with the lobbying firm Faso worked for as part of a major pay - to - play pension fund scandal).

Earlier this month, after news of the federal investigation broke, Howe was fired as president of lobbying firm WOH Government Solutions.

It also comes as the consulting and lobbying firm, which had guided NYCLASS» political activities and press, has endured a barrage of bad reports related to campaign activities last year.

According to the complaint against Silver, Meara (who has also lobbied for a firm connected to the charges against former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos) served as a conduit between the former speaker and a developer widely identified as Glenwood Management.

The staffers include Ben Kalish, the group's former director of development, who has left to work at the Fortune Society, and Jamin Sewell, the firm's director of lobbying and government relations, who has left to serve as counsel and managing director of policy and advocacy at the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies.

Last year, P.R.I. retained four firms to lobby the governor and his administration as well as both branches of the Legislature on a number of issues related to medical malpractice law.

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.

Deputy executive director Moses Mercado has left the DNC to join Ogilvy Government Relations, the lobbying firm formerly known as the Federalist Group.

Later, Lasher would work as an aide to Congressman Jerrold Nadler, co-found SKDKnickerbocker — one of the state's top lobbying / consulting firms — and serve as director of state legislative affairs for the man who bested Green, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

David Cameron's former deputy chief of staff has taken a part - time role as an adviser for the financial and corporate lobbying firm Brunswick.

A report being released Friday by the Public Accountability Initiative examines the money spent on the consulting and lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs by Competitive Power Ventures as the trial of a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo loomed.

David Cameron's former deputy chief of staff has taken a part - time role as an adviser for lobbying firm Brunswick, it has emerged.

Former Tory MP Anne McIntosh is in line for a peerage, a few months after she joined lobbying firm Hume Brophy as a senior consultant, «advising clients on strategic issues across a range of sectors».

Osborne is not allowed to lobby ministers on behalf of the firm for at least two years since leaving the Treasury, and is not able to draw on «privileged» information available to him from his time as Chancellor.

The November Team, a PR firm that is led by Bill O'Reilly, Jessica Proud and Jerry McKinstry, has blasted JCOPE for an advisory opinion that required political consultants to register as lobbyists when they engage in a form of «grassroots» lobbying.

It comes as new research from lobbying firm Westminster Public Affairs puts Tom Watson and Stella Creasy as clear joint favourites for the deputy leadership among Labour candidates.

The letter refers to TV commercials that have started airing in the district, linking Faso to his lobbying firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips paying a fine as part of a settlement connected to the pay - to - play pension fund scandal.

Mr. Grodenchik served as a deputy borough president and worked for Parkside, the Queens Democratic Party's consulting and lobbying firm of choice.

She knitted together a patchwork of allies: the labor - backed Working Families Party, the new incarnation of Acorn known as New York Communities for Change and a couple of prominent consulting and lobbying firms.

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.

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 perforAs 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 perforas 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 perforas a commission for title work which he did not perform.

Also declaring family lobbying links are Tory MP Sir Alan Haselhurst, whose daughter is a director at the consultancy Blue Rubicon; and the unsuccessful Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Norman Lamb, whose son works as a researcher at the lobbying firm GK Strategy.

To which Walden - who also served as Johnson's director of communications at City Hall and is now at lobbying firm Edelman - responded:

As former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani rails against Black Lives Matter, his law firm reaps tens of thousands of dollars lobbying Congress for the biggest operator of private prisons in America.

Former care minister Paul Burstow has joined PR and lobbying firm MHP Communications as an adviser, reports Public Affairs News.

-- State & Broadway, a NYC and Albany - based lobbying / consulting / organizing firm, has hired Jeremy Hoffman to serve as senior government affairs consultant and principal coordinator for NYC government relations.

In 2016, he lost a contentious Democratic primary for his retiring mentor Charles Rangel's congressional seat to rival Adriano Espaillat, then a state Senator, and now he is facing blowback for accepting a job at a prominent lobbying firm following his years as a state legislator.