Sentences with phrase «owned by a lobbyist»

CNN, the Washington Post, and other outlets have attacked Pruitt for renting out a condominium owned by lobbyists.

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As a politician, DeLuca has also been funded by trophy hunting lobbyists in his own bid -LSB-...]

But Politico's Laura Nahmias asked about a campaign promise he'd made in 2013 — to disclose not only his own meetings with lobbyists, but those held by agency heads and commissioners as well.

James L. Seward is politically owned by Clark and is her main Lobbyist in Albany who started the connection to Home - Rule which compounded the anti drilling debacle.

The state contended a similar arrangement to pay Aronow involved passing money through Synor Marketing, a long time Niagara County GOP consulting firm, and Richardson Management, owned by Winter, the Maziarz friend and lobbyist.

The defense in the trial of Joe Percoco has worked to hurt the credibility of prosecution witness Todd Howe by offering examples of how the disgraced lobbyist would alter emails to pump up his own reputation.

Federal investigators are looking at whether lobbyist Todd Howe, a longtime associate of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, defrauded his former employer by diverting client payments to his own account, people familiar with the matter said.

The director of the governor's own internal investigation on the matter has already said that there's reason to believe that the state may have been «defrauded by improper bidding and failures to disclose potential conflicts of interest by lobbyists and former state employees.»

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Spacey Stars in Seriocomic Potboiler Revisiting Abramoff Scandal Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey) was a veteran Washington, DC lobbyist whose outrageous exploits made even members of his own shady profession blush.

Thanks to their record spending on lobbyists and lobbying, Connecticut's charter school industry is sitting pretty thanks to the decision by Malloy and the Democrats to give the privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools record amounts of public funds.

«I think people have had it with a system that's systematically ruining the middle class and mortgaging the prosperity of future generations so that a small clique of ultra-rich predators can rob the world blind, aided and abetted by their lobbyist buddies, and the politicians and regulators and media cronies they own lock, stock and barrel.»

Of course we are now approaching debt levels we haven't seen since WWII from the combined efforts of two concurrent wars and bailing out every industry that can afford to hire a lobbyist, and overuse of the old politician's trick of buying votes by spending people's own money on them and pretending to be magnanimous.

Not by the commercial breeders, or their lobbyist, or by those who profit by selling the breeders registration papers — but by the governor's own staff.

This could provide a clue as to why so many MPs, Conservatives especially, are able to be markedly more sceptical on climate change than the electorate — if voters are not telling them it is an issue they care about, they may be more likely to follow their own inclinations or be swayed by lobbyists.

The lobbyist who sent it, Eric Burgeson, worked for the BGR Group, which happened to be then - Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's own firm, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request by the Climate Investigations Center.

Then he started to believe his own press, convinced himself that his opinions were of such value that the «Government» was censoring him, urged by activists (lobbyists without the paycheck) he ventured farther and farther afield and shriller in his calls while on his crusade to save the planet, which served to isolate and marginalize him until now he looks around and can not understand why everyone is not just doing what he says.

Big Coal is best understood as a beast of inertia, pushed along by hundreds of billions of dollars worth of heavy metal infrastructure, and kept on track by an army of lobbyists, and our own ignorance of what goes on behind the light switch.

The brouhaha at the Post broke out last week, when Politico.com reported plans by Weymouth to host an exclusive «salon» at her home where Washington lobbyists and association executives would pay as much as $ 250,000 to attend and obtain off - the - record access to «those powerful few» — Obama administration officials, members of Congress and even the Post's own reporters and editors.

As most legislation is contributed to by external parties (various lobbyists, for example), the vast majority of legislation is now privately owned.

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The Washington, D.C. hotel owned by the Trump Organization made $ 270,000 by providing housing and catering services to Saudi Arabian lobbyists against U.S. anti-terrorism laws, according to the New York Post.