Sentences with phrase «of aides hired»

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio slashed the pay of aides hired under predecessor Mike Bloomberg even as he lavished $ 2 million in raises on his City Hall staff.

Mayor de Blasio slashed the pay of aides hired under predecessor Mike Bloomberg even as de Blasio lavished $ 2 million in raises on his City Hall staff.

Cuomo is using campaign funds to pay a criminal defense lawyer representing his office, and several of his aides hired their own counsel.

Not exact matches

Last fall, in response to increasing scrutiny surrounding its role as a central instrument of Russian election interference, Facebook hired top aides to former Obama Administration officials (Biden, Kerry), as well as the former chief of staff for Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.

Rubio got so carried away with the findings of the autopsy that one of his aides explicitly argued for expanding guest worker programs as an alternative to the hiring of American workers who «can't cut it.»

You can lean on family and friends to come in, use the services of a care facility to provide respite care or hire a special needs caregiver or senior care aide.

The denial by Jay Sekulow, one of several personal lawyers Trump has hired to represent him in the Russia case, is the latest of many examples in which the president's aides and lawyers have scrambled to avert a public - relations mess created by the preident's tweets, off - script remarks or leaked private conversations.

As the Democratic primary heats up, Cuomo has hired Lis Smith, a former campaign aide to frequent foe Mayor NYC de Blasio and one - time advisor to the Senate IDC, as his director of rapid response.

Senate Democrats were poised this week to axe yet another member of their central staff who had been hired during the Malcolm Smith era, but abruptly called off the firing when the aide's politically - connected father intervened, sources confirmed.

Reaching across party lines — and the Lincoln Tunnel — Cuomo announced the hiring of Maria Comella, a former top aide to Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, to serve as chief of staff.

He's hired key staff from President Barack Obama's administration, as well as new chief of staff Maria Comella, who has worked on Republican presidential campaigns and was a top aide for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

The four of them hired Rich Azzopardi, the Ewok - like chief of staff to their old compatriot Craig Johnson, as their political and press aide.

According to the newspaper, federal agents have already interviewed several of more than two dozen recent hires, including former aides to President Obama, who Cuomo employed shortly after the 2016 elections.

Cuomo's reaction to Bharara's probe — which focuses in part on two of his closest friends and longtime associates, former aide Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe — was to push Kaloyeros aside and hire a special outside investigator, Bart Schwartz, to oversee the development projects going forward.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has hired Jim Malatras to work as director of state operations, a post occupied until last month by Howard Glaser, according to an email written by the governor's top aide, Larry Schwartz, and provided to The Wall Street Journal.

Adding to the tensions, de Blasio was said to have hired Karen Hinton, the wife of former top Cuomo aide Howard Glaser, without giving the governor a heads up on the appointment.

Interestingly enough, the firm hired to investigate future sexual harassment cases, Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux, contributed $ 1,000 to Lopez's own re-election campaign in August 2011 — nearly a year before the news of Lopez's harassment of his aides came to light, Board of Elections records show.

Lopez was allowed to hire new aides, whom subsequently would also accused the one - time Brooklyn power broker of harassment.

Over the last couple of years the Buffalo Public School District has been trying to hire more school bus aides.

Over the past several months, Cuomo has hired Chris Christie's former chief of staff, a move widely seen as further burnishing his own bipartisan credentials; his aides have reached out to out - of - state donors about a possible fundraising swing later this year.

Cuomo, who has raised his profile by increasing his travel, hiring a number of aides who worked for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and pushing a number of liberal positions, has not signaled that he is running for president but has also seemed happy to see the rumors float about.

As the settlement was being conducted behind closed doors, the Assembly hired three more aides to Lopez's staff, who subsequently accused the lawmaker of harassment as well.

The Parkside Group, a NYC - based consulting / lobbying firm that is a favorite of the Senate Democrats, has hired a former aide to now - Gov.

Schneiderman's office is requesting written proof that the ad was discontinued as well as all of the names of staff and personnel responsible for hiring the nurses and nurses» aides, and those responsible for creating the ad.

Frustrations over the lack of diversity among the ranks of top Senate Democratic aides began seeping into public view after Hillary Clinton's stunning loss deprived the party's donors and lobbyists of a critical opening to build on the Obama administration's minority - hiring efforts.

The city's top cop insisted Sunday that he's still holding out hope of hiring more officers this year, even after his big blow - up with a key City Hall aide over...

According to the newspaper, federal agents already have interviewed several of more than two dozen recent hires, including former Obama administration aides whom Cuomo employed shortly after the 2016 elections.

The complaint said that Kelly told two top executives at Competitive Power Ventures that Cuomo's office had given him an opinion asserting that there would be no ethical conflict if the energy company were to hire the spouse of an aide who could influence regulatory decisions.

Silver is accused of directing Glenwood to hire a real estate law firm run by a former aide, which then paid him handsomely for doing no work, while Skelos is charged with directing the developer to pay his son's title insurance company $ 20,000 for work it did not do.

She had earned that monthly income since December 2012 although CPV paid her through an obscure Connecticut LLC to conceal the fact that it had hired the wife of a gubernatorial aide while the company was seeking favor from state officials as it developed a controversial power plant in Orange County.

In March, her brother, Bernard T. Mahoney, was hired to be a part - time aide at Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Facility, a division of the county probation department.

Cuomo last month hired a former top aide to Christie, Maria Comella, to serve as his chief of staff.

Murphy recently hired one of de Blasio's press aides to serve as his spokesman.

One former Christie aide joked of Fox's hiring, «You know the rule down in Trenton: If you spend enough time down at the State House, eventually the administration just hires you.»

JCOPE has refused to release to the public any record of the secret vote to hire longtime aide Cuomo Ellen Biben as its $ 148,000 - a-year executive director.

Two weeks ago, Silver stripped Lopez of his committee chairmanship and forbade him to hire young aides, acting on the recommendation of the Assembly Ethics Committee.

Cuomo is still looking for ways stick it to his fellow Democrat, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, and in fact things recently took a turn for the worse, reportedly due to the mayor's hiring of Karen Hinton, a former Cuomo ally and wife of his ex-top aide, Howard Glaser, without first getting the governor's blessing.

Multiple state public authorities hired law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP to represent them amid a Manhattan U.S. Attorney's investigation that led to corruption charges against a former top Cuomo aide and seven other individuals, according to an engagement letter for a separate contract obtained Tuesday by The Alt through a Freedom of Information Law request.

A second source said Schwartz, who will be paid a yet - to - be-determined fee by the state, was actually hired to deflect public attention from the seriousness of Bharara's probe, which involves former top Cuomo aides Joseph Percoco, now executive vice president at Madison Square Garden, lobbyist and former Cuomo employee Todd Howe, and contractors connected to the $ 1 billion effort in Buffalo.

According to the newspaper, federal agents have already interviewed several of over two dozen recent hires, including former aides to President Obama, who Cuomo employed shortly after the 2016 elections.

Even Bloomberg's close aide, Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson, learned of Black's hiring a mere half - hour before the mayor announced it last November.

The wife of a top aide to Gov. Cuomo has been quietly hired by one of New York's most aggressive lobbying and public - relations firms, which is now advertising her connections to Cuomo on its Web site, The Post has found.

-- A lobbying source on the hiring of Karen Hinton (left), wife of one of Gov. Cuomo's closest aides

He recently lost his newly hired communications director, Allyson Gollust, and a top aide garnered unwanted national attention last week for reading from the personnel file of a fired state worker who claimed he was sacked after praising the administration in the media without direct permission to speak.

«From his delusional declarations about New York's business friendliness (we're ranked last in the nation), to his snarky response about the FBI's investigation into his hiring practices, to his bizarre lecture to a female journalist about sexual harassment that one of his top aides was guilty of, we once again witnessed the arrogance and obfuscation of a Governor whose administration is in crisis,» the state GOP committee said.

The State Department has delivered only seven of nearly 70 pages of documents that a federal judge identified as potentially responsive to an AP request for documents relating to Clinton's hiring of longtime aide Huma Abedin as a special government contract staffer.

Political Aides are people that their office hires to do a lot of that research and clerical work.

JCOPE has hired another former Cuomo aide: Director of Investigations and Enforcement Letizia Tagliaferro.

-- Mercury Public Affairs, the consulting and lobbying firm founded by a group of former Pataki administration aides / advisors that has since expanded to several states, has hired Dan Cho to its New York government relations team.

It's been several years since all buses were staffed with aides and the district has had difficulty hiring aides to fill the slots it wants filled because of complicated hiring processes and the work shifts.