Sentences with phrase «lobbying firms»

Biben told the newspaper she would explore job opportunities after she leaves, but she will remain in the position for four weeks as JCOPE deals with some of New York's biggest law firms, companies and lobbying firms.

[44] Firms initially responded to the campaign, but it waned during 2004, when the possibility of Senator John Kerry's winning the presidency gave lobbying firms some incentive to hire Democrats.

When Carl Heastie became New York Assembly speaker in February, two lobbying firms linked to him saw a boom in business.

Principals of several lobbying firms say they would discourage or prevent one of their lobbyists from vacationing with a sitting elected leader.

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.

Title insurance companies have marshaled a half - dozen lobbying firms to make their case, including big Albany players like Brown & Weinraub, Ostroff Associates and Jackson Lewis.

Lobbying firms have been watching the actions closely.

THIS is how we break the hold that lobbying firms and industry advocates have on our government.

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

The lobbying firms the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs are the unnamed companies in the grand jury indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, according to three sources with knowledge of the investigation.

Corning Place Consulting is the public affairs / communications arm of Hinman Straub, which routinely lands on the Top 10 list of highest - grossing NY lobbying firms.

According to his corporate biography, he previously worked at Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm and one of the biggest lobbying firms in Albany.

Lehal is a highly - regarded public affairs consultant who set up his agency in 2006, having previously worked at top lobbying firms Westminster Strategy and Edelman.

In court documents unsealed Friday the U.S. attorney accused the former speaker of having two affairs, one with former communications director who ran one of Albany's highest earning lobbying firms, another with a former assemblywoman who received state jobs in agencies controlled by Silver and Assembly Democrats.

The companies, according to a source and to companies that have acknowledged separate subpoenas, include: six full - service development and real estate companies, three real estate firms, three engineering / architecture firms, two manufacturers, two lobbying firms, a power - plant company, a construction firm and a cellphone tower / communications company.

Ratner employs some of New York's most prominent lobbying firms and has Dan Klores Communications, one of the city's best - connected PR firms, on retainer.

Ex-ministers routinely end up on corporate boards or in lobbying firms related to their previous briefs.

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.

The top lobbying firms include many with ties to government leaders.

Other federal officeholders, like Rep. Joe Crowley, have hired lobbying firms to become involved in the redistrcting battle.

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.

The award for quote of the year is picked up by Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle who mused back in August about the prospect of lobbying firms getting traction with Jeremy Corbyn by hiring «commercially minded Trotskyites».

The latest appointment also comes after Cameron's former media chiefs Craig Oliver and Graham Wilson have also recently joined lobbying firms.

In Albany, which has been criticized for having a pay - to - play culture, special interest groups including lobbying firms, unions and corporations often steer contributions toward those in power, regardless of their ideology.

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

The city's top 10 lobbying firms used connections and insider knowledge to grow.

Glenwood, which not accused of any crime, paid nearly a million dollars to lobbying firms.

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 10 biggest lobbying firms in New York City have built their businesses on access and savvy.

· Lobbying firms should refuse to represent an unethical and murderous industry — and if not, health clients should refuse to hire firms that do business with them.

Calvert is a planning public affairs specialist who held senior roles at lobbying firms Curtin and Co, Redwood Consutling and HardHat before setting up his own shop, Calvert Communications, in 2015.

Former House members and ex-senators are barred from lobbying their former colleagues immediately, but they still can work for lobbying firms.

There are also the lobbying firms, trade associations and corporate government affairs offices that are pitching senior Obama aides» resumes into the round file while scrambling to hire operatives with Republican connections.

The paper also reported that more than half of that cash has come from the biggest players in Albany: Labor unions, the real estate and construction industries, the health care sector and lobbying firms.

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.

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna is one of New York's largest and most prominent legal and lobbying firms.

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.

Instead, legislators appear to have bought into the false notion that pass - throughs are small businesses, and are responding to the organized efforts of trade groups composed of pass - throughs, who push that narrative aggressively (and with the help of pass - through lobbying firms).

The company has ramped up efforts to hire Republican lobbying firms and in - house lobbyists to change the composition of its Washington office.

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.

It routinely works with lobbying firms to help them get back in compliance by registering and disclosing their work.

The CRP's database incorporates disclosures to both the Senate and the House of Representatives and includes both in - house lobbyists and external lobbying firms.

The founder of Perth - based lobbying firm GRA Everingham has been named the next chief executive of Marketforce, succeeding John Driscoll, who has announced his retirement today.

The EPA and the lobbying firm told the Times there was no connection between the approval and Pruitt's accommodations.

Flynn's son also recently drew focus in the Russia investigation because of work he did for his father's lobbying firm, Flynn Intel Group, and legal analysts have said that Mueller's focus on Flynn Jr. could be an attempt to coerce his father's cooperation in the investigation.

He began by calling other webcasters, who together founded SaveNetRadio, then hired a D.C. lobbying firm, Qorvis, which has done work for AOL, Amazon.com, and Halliburton, to get behind it.

Gates initially joined Manafort's lobbying firm Davis Manafort in 2006.

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

In recent weeks, the team hired K Street lobbying firm McGuireWoods Consulting, a move that comes on top of the team's work with crisis management expert Lanny Davis.

The New York Times reported Trudeau has enlisted former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to help with Trump, and Ontario's government has hired a New York - based lobbying firm to lean on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to go easy on imposing trade restrictions on the Empire State's northern neighbor.