Sentences with phrase «millions as a lobbyist»

Rick Lazio, on the other hand, spent the last decade protecting Wall Street banks and earning millions as a lobbyist.»

Paterson will make millions as a lobbyist and speaker after Obama makes him an Ambassador to Timbuktu.

Not exact matches

As I wrote last week, consumer class action attorney Knoll Lowney sued the No on 522 and the Washington DC - based Grocery Manufactures Association (lobbyists for major food corporations) for not disclosing the donors behind GMA's $ 7 million - plus donation to stop I - 522, which would require genetically - engineered foods to be labeled.

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 June, the company D'Amato founded and manages, Park Strategies, was listed as the fourth top lobbyist in New York in terms of total compensation, with $ 7.18 million in receipts, according to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics annual report.

We've seen battalions of financial industry lobbyists descending on Capitol Hill, as firms spend millions to influence the outcome of this debate.

Reality: As Wall Street's top lobbyist Rick Lazio has made $ 8 million the past decade, including a $ 1.3 million bonus in 2009, paid for with taxpayer bailout funds.

In addition to more than 11 million pages of records, the feds» arsenal includes former lobbyist - turned - cooperating witness Todd Howe and emails in which he and Percoco allegedly referred to payoffs as «ziti» — a code word for cash that prosecutors say they lifted from an episode of HBO's mob drama «The Sopranos.»

Manhattan - based Park Strategies, which is also one of the larger state lobbyists, filed in Nassau to represent 20 clients, including Forest City Ratner (which also registered its own employees as lobbyists); Gannett Fleming Engineers, which has won more than $ 6 million in county contracts since 2011, mostly to design and oversee wastewater treatment plant improvements; and Allvision, a company that was poised to erect large electronic billboards across Nassau before the project stalled earlier this year.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta has registered as a lobbyist, representing five clients, including A. Vournou Construction Management Group, a Syosset contractor affiliated with a firm with a $ 20 million contract to build a new county crime lab.

City officials said they rejected a $ 4,000 per month contract proposal from Todd Howe, a former lobbyist and ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as they waited for SUNY Polytechnic Institute to push ahead with a $ 12.5 million high - tech development plan for the city's riverfront.

While Mulrow was listed as a Blackstone lobbyist working to influence the $ 289 billion New York state pension system, Blackstone secured hundreds of millions of dollars in new pension investment commitments for the firm — far more than it had during the four - year period before Cuomo's first term.

According to Bolton's website: «As a lobbyist, Giorgio has worked on several successful procurement projects, including the New York State Prescription Drug Program, valued at $ 1 billion per year, and the New York State Mental Health Contract, valued at $ 120 million per year.

He has $ 24.2 million in his campaign account, and counts as supporters prominent Republicans like Alphonse D'Amato, a lobbyist who 18 years ago served in the U.S. Senate (and lost, in the end, to Schumer).

The firm's revenue subsequently declined, and in 2012, she reported $ 6.7 million, the same figure as 2007, but still second among state goverment lobbyists.

Washington — In the middle of the night on Oct. 3, as the 98th Congress neared adjournment, a group of lobbyists and Senators turned the reauthorization for Head Start programs into a legislative «Christmas tree» bearing more than $ 200 million in new education initiatives.

The group just hired Paul Bailey, a former operative for the oil and electric power industries, as its top lobbyist and will soon fill three more upper - level positions, bolstering a fleet of fixers who spent more money than anyone else — nearly $ 10 million last year — lobbying on climate change - related legislation, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

[7] In the years that Holmstead was disclosed as a lobbyist for coal interests, those client companies have paid Holmstead's firm over $ 10.7 million.

The one area net neutrality did cause costs to balloon was lobbyists, as one study found that the three largest telecoms companies spent $ 26.3 million lobbying for net neutrality repeal in 2017.