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Former Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has expressed shock over a statement made by one of his aides before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...

Former Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has expressed shock over a statement made by one of his aides before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

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Oct. 28, 2016: Days before the election, Comey informs Congress by letter that he is reopening the investigation into Clinton's email practices based on new evidence, citing the discovery of emails on a laptop used by a top Clinton aide.

Confirmed in a tweet by the candidate late Tuesday, the trip was organized in the last several days, with aides to the candidate and the Mexican leader working until the final minutes before the announcement to iron out the details for a visit that would normally require weeks of protocol and security planning.

So Porter, a little - known White House aide who has avoided getting caught up in any of the West Wing drama that has plagued the administration for the better part of seven months, serves to review everything before it makes it to the president's desk.

Long before the rest of the population was using apps to download music, plan vacations and chat with friends, we were relying on technological aides to complete the most basic tasks just to get through the day.

The previously unreported incident is the first sign that serious concerns about Ronny Jackson's conduct had reached the highest levels of the White House as far back as September — months before White House aides furiously defended Jackson's professionalism, insisted he had been thoroughly vetted and argued allegations of misconduct amounted to unsubstantiated rumors.

Kelly was sitting in the audience until a few minutes before the event started, when a White House aide asked him to sit on risers on the sides of the podium.

The sources said Pruitt's decision to put Greenwalt in charge of his international travel, which came just months into his tenure at EPA, fit a pattern of Pruitt assigning the most sensitive responsibilities to his small cadre of aides who had previously worked with him in Oklahoma before he became EPA administrator — aides who sources said were more likely to acquiesce to his demands, even as other EPA staffers objected to Pruitt's spending and travel decisions.

Before going into that White House listening session with classmates and parents of the latest mass school massacre victims in Florida, President Donald Trump had a brief cheat - sheet from an aide advising him to tell them: «I hear you.»

As confirmed by the memo, the FBI began a counterterrorism investigation of former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in late July 2016 — about three months before federal investigators first sought the warrant on Page.

On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision - making, according to a «whistle - blower» witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress

Before that, he forced the firing of Jorge Valdano, the director general and presidential aide, when Valdano criticized his tactics and siege mentality.

Also key was an «AIDE Memoire», issued by European Commission to MEPs before the vote, that failed to make the key point that the European Food Safety Authority (the body tasked with evaluating the claim) had seen no evidence of any benefit from adding the ingredient to follow - on formulas.

You don't need to explain every aspect of care the aide will provide before the relationship has been formed.

Cuomo's office interviewed a number of lobbyists and people with business interests before the state with whom Bruno said he met, including Ken Riddett, a former top aide to Bruno; former US Sen. Al D'Amato (a longtime Bruno ally and GOP donor); and Pat Lynch, a former top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and employer of Darren Dopp, Spitzer's former chief spokesman who was the first Troopergate victim.

The payouts came several weeks before the newly - minted governor, with great fanfare, announced he and his top aides would take a 5 percent pay cut to set an example to the rest of the state in these difficult fiscal times.

A legislative source reports two top aides to Mayor Bloomberg — Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson and Director of Legislative Affairs Micah Lasher — are huddling with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in hopes of landing a charter school deal before the day is out.

Multiple White House aides said Hicks's decision to leave was unrelated to her appearance before the House committee, insisting she told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to resign, partly because she never liked Washington and chose not to try to pretend to.

Hope Hicks, the White House communications director who is one of Trump's closest and longest - serving aides, is resigning a day after she testified before the House Intelligence Committee.

He is accused of allegedly trading that position as a senior government aide to Cuomo to benefit two companies with business before the Cuomo administration.

A year before the indictment of top Cumo aides and important Upstate business leaders, leading transparency and fiscal watchdog groups warned that the state's use of a mixture of non-profit groups like Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, SUNY Polytechnic and SUNY Research Foundation to award business subsidy contracts «[b] lurred responsibility and reduced the accountability for decisions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.»

They are tasked with deciding whether the aide, Joseph Percoco, is guilty of taking more than $ 300,000 in bribes from three executives with business before the state.

Police are one step closer to finding the suspects responsible for the death of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's aide Carey Gabay, who was fatally shot in September before the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.

Among those who were being mentioned as a possible replacement was former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who brought corruption charges that led to the convictions of two former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before Bharara was fired by President Donald Trump.

This was hardly the ideal preparation for such an important conference, but, on the other hand, aides insist (before he lost the Syria vote) there could hardly have been a better demonstration of his statesmanlike qualities.

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.

Cuomo told aides over the weekend that due to the high - profile criminal and civil investigations of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada (D - Bronx) that became public last week, he was shelving tentative plans to announce later this week right before a Waldorf - Astoria fund - raiser and a meeting of the Democratic Rural Conference.

Andrews represented Brooklyn in the state Senate for four years before taking a string of political plums, including a stint as a top aide to Gov. Paterson.

Fifteen hundred pages of emails from Rosen released by City Hall the night before Thanksgiving show that he was deeply involved in city policy, weighing in on decisions regarding universal pre-K and consulting with one of the mayor's top aides, Emma Wolfe, on how to handle public relations issues.

Fletcher, who served as Livingstone's chief of staff in City Hall, before working as an aide to Ed Miliband, never does interviews and is little known outside of the party.

An aide to Vice President Pence said that he had called legislative leaders and alerted them shortly before the missiles began to rain down outside of the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Paterson's involvement in a top aide's domestic scandal has caused some to call for his resignation, but Sharpton made it clear that, while there were differences of opinion in the room, the majority of attendees felt they should allow for «due process» and wait for the results of the investigation into the matter before making a decision.

In Brooklyn, Menchaca, a former top aide to Council Speaker Christine Quinn and before that to Borough President Marty Markowitz, has the support of Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, powerful unions, including SEIU 1199, which represents healthcare workers, 32BJ, representing building services employees, and the Hotel Trades Council, as well as the city's Central Labor Council.

ALBANY — Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was convicted Tuesday of three felony three corruption charges in connection with accepting more than $ 300,000 in payments from companies with business before the state, according to reports.

Just before news of his dismissal broke, his office issued a statement aiming to clear up his testimony that former Clinton aide Huma Abedin «forwarded hundreds and thousands» of emails to her husband's laptop.

Carey Gabay, legal counsel and aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was shot before the start of the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn on Sept. 7, 2015.

He admitted that at times, he altered e-mails he received from Cuomo aides — falsely putting a «tear» in Mario Cuomo's eye when he spoke of Howe in one, and saying Andrew wanted to have dinner in another — before forwarding them to his boss to make himself look good.

Specifically, the investigations are said to be looking into whether de Blasio accepted money from donors who had business before the city or were lobbying the city to secure specific projects and contracts, and whether a team of de Blasio aides illegally routed money to candidates in State Senate races in 2014.

Paterson told associates that Silver began seeking his ouster months ago, well before last week's bombshell allegation that he and his staff sought to block a Bronx woman from seeking an order of protection against David Johnson, the governor's longtime aide.

The day before, Abedin was twice told via emails from Justin Cooper, a Bill Clinton aide who set up the original private server in 2009, that he had shut the system down because of hacking attempts.

Former US Attorney Preet Bharara brought corruption charges that led to the convictions of the two former majority party legislative leaders, as well as Cuomo's former closest aide, before he was fired by President Trump.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A lawyer attacked the credibility of a key government witness on Wednesday at the bribery trial of a former top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo before the witness lashed back, calling it insulting to suggest he would lie to avoid prison.

DeRosa led Cuomo's communications team and was his chief of staff before being named the Democratic governor's top aide.

None of this seems to faze a mayor known for his «political cool» over a career that started as an aide to then - County Executive Dennis T. Gorski and extended through the Common Council and State Senate before being elected the city's first African - American leader in 2005.

The CMD stated that the aide mentioned the names of the various injections administered on him before his death and the aide (in company with other aides) was asked to go and bring them.

Jeffrey Pearlman, a former chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and before that a top aide to the Senate Democrats, will become the acting director of the Authorities Budget Office.

A jury of seven men and five women was picked for the corruption trial of Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but not before prospective panelists sounded off about how all politicians are «scoundrels.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended his former aide's acceptance of fees from entities with business before the state, saying it was «totally allowable» for Joe Percoco to have done so while serving as the governor's campaign manager.

Oh, and speaking of that infamous catch phrase - turned - podcast title employed by former US Attorney Preet Bharara, the Buffalo Billion corruption case he built before being unceremoniously fired by President Donald Trump is steaming along, with the first trial of former top Cuomo administration aide Joe Percoco is scheduled to start Jan. 22.