Sentences with phrase «one's time as attorney general»

The classic examples in corporate crime are the charges fired back at Eliot Spitzer during his time as Attorney General when he exposed a wide range of practices in the financial services industry.

Lacewell has served in a variety of advisory posts for Cuomo over the years, dating back to his time as attorney general, and is credited with developing the OpenNY government data website.

Spitzer's campaign has played heavily on his time as attorney general — an office he held for two successful terms compared to his disasterous governorship — going as far in an online ad to suggest Wall Street is scared of his candidacy.

As he has with other interviews, Spitzer plugged his upcoming e-book on his time as attorney general and pledged to fundamentally transform the office of city comptroller.

The failure that Spitzer, of course, is alluding to is being a customer of high - end prostitutes during his time as attorney general and governor.

In the ad, he harkens back to his time as attorney general, when he was the sheriff of Wall Street, not a late - night TV joke.

Similarly, the real estate company Jack Resnick & Sons has given to numerous candidates in recent years, but before using 10 LLCs to do so in November, hadn't donated to Cuomo since his time as attorney general.

Speaking about politics and about «public service,» Spitzer continuously pointed to his time as attorney general — rather than his time as governor — as the office of record he hoped voters would examine.

She was replaced as chief of staff formally last week by Linda Lacewell, a longtime aide to the governor dating back to his time as attorney general.

Local consolidation has long been a pet policy Cuomo dating back to his time as attorney general.

Lawsky was a trusted lieutenant of Governor Andrew Cuomo dating to the governor's time as attorney general; he was sent to run the agency after it was created from the merger of the state's banking and insurance departments.

Cuomo was the target of newspaper editorials recently that criticized him for being secretive and controlling in his handling of archive files during his time as Attorney General, among other things.

Most recently, the Albany Times Union reported that Cuomo administration officials had purged records from the state archives from Cuomo's time as Attorney General.

Cuomo, of course, has gotten beaten up recently over being anything but transparent, from his use of PIN - to - PIN function on his Blackberry, eskewing emails and keeping some of his documents from his time as attorney general out of the public view.

Efforts to reduce the scope of local government have been made by Cuomo since his time as attorney general.

The expulsion the campaign is referring to is when then State Senator Eric Schneiderman worked to expel Hiram Monserrate from the state senate in 2010, which admittedly was before his time as attorney general.

It wasn't Cuomo's first - ever foray into the issue, as an administration official noted: There was also Cuomo's 2009 investigation of a private college for misreporting sexual assaults, which took place during his time as attorney general.

«They have the experience in the higher levels of government, so it makes their hiring unsurprising,» said Horner, who once left NYPIRG to work for the governor during Cuomo's time as attorney general.

In 2010, Cuomo's proposed a gun control policy that seemed to build on his time as attorney general and Housing and Urban Development secretary to deal with illegally obtained guns.

Cuomo was the target of newspaper editorial recently that criticized him for being secretive and controlling in his handling of archive files during his time as Attorney General, among other things.

Wanglien, who is in her twenties, said many of her friends don't remember Spitzer's time as attorney general.

Dicker was previously quite close to Cuomo, who during his time as attorney general and the early days of gubernatorial tenure was a regular guest on Dicker's radio show.

His late wife, Ellen Kay Schwartz, served as the governor's assistant executive deputy secretary and executive deputy chief of staff during Cuomo's time as attorney general.

Pruitt is a known denier of the science of anthropogenic global warming, and in fact has spent much of his time as attorney general suing the EPA over the issue.

Throughout her time as attorney general she has been a strong proponent of gun control and while a district attorney she had even challenged gun control laws in respect to the second amendment of the constitution.

He has had some controversy during his time as attorney general, one issue being that he did not declare a certain amount of campaign donations and the other being that he claimed on Fox News that there were people who were dead that were still voting.