Sentences with phrase «own lobbying firm»

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

** Enbridge Inc denied conflict of interest claims on Tuesday after a media report found that the head of United States energy regulator had been paying $ 50 a day for a property near Capitol Hill linked to the chairman of a key Washington lobby firm that represents the Calgary - based pipeline company.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

The assistant health minister's chief of staff, Alastair Furnival, who intervened to pull down a healthy food rating website, has an interest in his wife's lobbying firm, which acts for Cadbury's parent company.

Furnival was once chairman of APA and chief economist for Cadbury, but Nash has insisted there is no conflict of interest because he «receives no income» from a «shareholding» in his wife's lobbying firm and the firm has promised not to lobby her or the health minister, Peter Dutton.

The LAF's Washington - based lobbying firm has put together a dossieron Bolten, with whom they'll speak the next day.

SNA's leadership employs a public relations staff and a high - powered lobbying firm to make its views known, so we created the open letter to offer any interested SNA members a mechanism to express their concerns about those views.

Times political reporter Nicholas Confessore does an excellent job of exploring the factors leading to this stunning reversal, which include a recent change in SNA's leadership, its choice of a new lobbying firm and its decision to use more aggressive legislative tactics to advance its agenda on Capitol Hill.

Billy Wynne is a partner in Thorne Run lobbying firm.

The organization's stunning about - face was examined in depth in a New York Times story last fall; the factors leading to the reversal include a recent change in SNA's leadership and its choice of a new lobbying firm.

The PATS lobbying firm, the Winter Group (TWG), helped develop the talking points for the day.

One of the panelists at the SNA's policy session was Craig Burkhardt, a lawyer with the group's new lobbying firm, Barnes and Thornburg (whose clients include the National Rifle Association).

The American - owned lobbying firm Teneo Strategy recently hired Oliver, former Number 10 communications director.

By moving to a lobbying firm, Wilson follows in the footsteps of his former colleagues Craig Oliver, Ameet Gill and Caroline Preston — all of whom have made a similar move since Theresa May entered Number 10.

A one - time Labour researcher, he began his lobbying career with the disgraced lobbying firm Ian Greer Associates, resigning in the aftermath of the «cash for questions» affair in 1996, shortly before the whole agency liquidated itself.

Kim has the support of the Queens Democratic Party and is currently an associate at the Parkside Group (a consulting / lobbying firm that also has close ties to the party).

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

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's long - time Press Secretary Dan Weiller is leaving the Legislature to work for the powerful lobbying firm, Patricia Lynch Associates.

Graeme Wilson has been hired by the financial lobbying firm Tulchan Communications as a partner.

Revelations about «embarrassing» strategems used by a lobbying firm have prompted further demands for reform from Labour.

The MP for Witham, who used to work at lobbying firm Weber Shandwick, also supports bringing back the death penalty.

In addition to recovering $ 170 million, Cuomo fined the high - powered lobbying firm run by Patricia Lynch for $ 500,000 and banned her from appearing before the comptroller's office for five years.

Malito is joining the Long Island - based law and lobbying firm of Gerstman Schwartz, which is making him a partner, though he says he'll only be working part - time.

Hill most recently worked for the lobbying firm Lexington Communications.

Our meeting at the HQ of PR and lobbying firm Portland, where Campbell works part - time, comes 10 weeks after the prime minister's big speech pledging to tackle the «stigma» around mental health problems.

A squabble is now developing over who will take credit for moves to force lobby firms to declare who is paying for their efforts to sway government ministers.

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.

In addition, GKM Newport Generation Capital Services will pay the equivilent of $ 1.6 million, California lobbying firm Platinum Advisors will pay $ 500,000; and unlicensed placement agent Kevin McCabe (a former political strategist for ex-NYC Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr.) will pay $ 715,000.

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP remained the state's top lobbying firm spending $ 10.3 million last year.

The top lobbying firm in Albany in 2015 was Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, which received $ 10.5 million in compensation and reimbursements.

However, Wright, who recently left public office to work for a lobbying firm, intends to remain as Manhattan County Democratic Chair which he describes as an «insiders game.»

This just reminds voters that like O'Mara's second paycheck from a registered lobbying firm, Albany won't fix itself and we need change.»

The de Blasio administration's recent recreation of 1986 World Series victory celebration for former Met Dwight «Doc» Gooden, whose battles with drug addiction caused him to miss the original festivities, was guided by the influential lobbying firm of James F. Capalino, whose name has been linked to several corruption probes.

The top lobbying firm is Wilson, Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, earning over $ 11 million.

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.

Former Virginia congressman Jim Moran has joined a law and lobbying firm.