Sentences with phrase «paid lobbying firm»

In fact, the ACS paid lobbying firm Hicks Partners LLC at least $ 100,000 in 2005 to try to persuade congressional members, the NIH, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that a «PubChem Project» would be a bad idea, according to public lobbying disclosures, and paid an additional $ 180,000 to the Wexler & Walker Public Policy Association to promote the «use of [a] commercial database.»

Airbnb paid the lobbying firm $ 150K in 2015 to lobby the Brooklyn borough president and City Council members, and the company also made a $ 32,000 contribution to Adams» nonprofit, the One Brooklyn Fund.

Not exact matches

Sen. Feinstein cites conflict of interest since his law firm, though not Bernhardt, is paid to lobby for the company.

While in the midst of putting together one of her perfectly structured pay - for - play deals to help kill an import - tax bill (even hiring actors as instigators among the protesters), Sloane is asked to take the lead in her firm helping the gun lobby attract scared moms.

These firms, putatively in the vanguard of advanced technology and certainly in the vanguard in Capitol Hill lobbying regarding H - 1B, are paying almost all of the foreign workers wages below the median for the given region.

Smithfield Foods paid at least $ 280,000 in lobbying fees in 2017 to Hart's firm, and Hart was listed by name as representing Smithfield as its lobbyist when he wrote the email, according to federal lobbying records.

** 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.

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.

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.

«It's time for John Faso to stop lying to the voters, no amount of false advertising will obscure the truth that John Faso and his firm were sanctioned by the Attorney General, banned from lobbying for five years and paid a $ 500,000 fine,» said spokesman David O'Connell.

Cuomo holds his father and his legacy in a sacrosanct state, making the kicker of the letter a real punch to the solar plexus and will do little to advance either man's relationship (part of this bad blood may stem from way back in 2010, when then - Attorney General Cuomo settled with the lobbying firm Faso worked for as part of a major pay - to - play pension fund scandal).

Glenwood, which not accused of any crime, paid nearly a million dollars to lobbying firms.

It paid the firm $ 60,000 a year to lobby state officials.

In Albany, which has been criticized for having a pay - to - play culture, special interest groups including lobbying firms, unions and corporations often steer contributions toward those in power, regardless of their ideology.

Then again, that reform is also opposed by the tort lobby represented by Weitz and Luxenberg — the other law firm that pays Silver.

Maple Street Charter School, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Albany.

In 2015, Empire Outlets paid consultant firm Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin LLC — where Molinaro works a senior managing director — $ 67,500 to lobby on their behalf with Borough President James Oddo, according to Office of the City Clerk records.

Sen. Tom Libous faces one count of making a false statement to the FBI stemming from an investigation in whether he arranged for his son to receive a job at a prominent Westchester COunty law firm paid for by a lobbying organization.

The Sunday Times says it has documents showing that Mr Donnelly's lobbying firm, Sovereign Strategy, paid # 2,000 in building works for a terraced house in South Shields, Tyneside.

Instead, Ryan filed an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics pointing to testimony in a Yonkers corruption trial from disbarred attorney Anthony Mangone that alleged Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm paid for by $ 50,000 from a lobbying organization.

The letter refers to TV commercials that have started airing in the district, linking Faso to his lobbying firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips paying a fine as part of a settlement connected to the pay - to - play pension fund scandal.

Bharara's office argued in its sentencing memorandum that as part of Matthew Libous» hiring, his father had arranged for an Albany lobbying firm, Ostroff Hiffa, to pay $ 50,000 of Matthew's annual salary.

A signed contract between the lobbying firm in March 2016 and Ciminelli's company said Whiteman Osterman & Hanna would be paid $ 55,000 in 2016 «to provide legislative and regulatory counsel.»

Lobbying insiders suggest that EDF is among MHP's biggest clients, paying thousands of pounds a month into the firm's coffers.

In response to my post this morning about the close to $ 1 million Madison County has paid to retain former Sen. Al D'Amato's lobbying firm, Park Strategies, since 2008, NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney sought to put that number into perspective.

The company also paid Howe $ 474,000 over a five - year period, in addition to $ 332,000 paid to Howe's lobbying firm, prosecutors say.

Lawmakers would have to name names only if a client were actively seeking something from state government AND the lawmaker either personally lobbied for that client or referred the client to his or her firm AND the client was paying the lawmaker or his or her firm $ 10,000 or more.

UPDATE: A reader reminds me that Cuomo's office hit Faso and his lobbying / law firm, Manatt Phelps, with not one, but two rounds of subpoenas in connection with the AG's ongoing pay - to - play probe, and so there is a history of bad blood here that extends beyond simple partisanship.

The firm's most recent client is the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregation of America, which this month began paying Jenkins» firm $ 15,000 a month through the end of next year to lobby on education funding.

A spokeswoman for McGuire confirmed to the Times Union that its CEO James McGuire attended the Cuomo fundraiser, but emphasized that the firm has never been a client of either Whiteman Osterman or Howe's lobbying subsidiary «and we have never paid either firm any fees» or «been solicited to be a client of either firm or asked to pay any fees, either.»

Red Horse Strategies, a leading campaign and lobbying firm, has been paid more than $ 20,000.

In 2006 Yankees ownership paid over $ 300,000 to a lobbying firm run by former Bronx Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez — the largest lobbying fee reported that year — as well as other influential lawmakers including former state senator Joseph Bruno, in an apparent effort to secure funding for the stadium.

To underwrite his son's employment — and the lease on a Range Rover — the senator had arranged for an Albany lobbying firm to pay the law office $ 50,000 per year.

Over the next seven years, ConnAD paid one of Hartford's most prominent lobbying firms over $ 725,000 to lobby in support of charter school issues.

Together they have paid one of Connecticut's leading lobby firms about $ 630,000 to influence public policy.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a coal trade group, paid the firm $ 10 million between 2008 and 2009 to fight the Waxman - Markey cap - and - trade legislation in Congress, E&E News reported, prompting a House committee investigation into ACCCE's lobbying disclosures.

Much of the lobbying - related work that law firms handle involves political intelligence gathering for hedge funds and Wall Street clients that can afford to pay big fees.

AT&T paid a total of $ 4.1 million in lobbying fees to nearly 30 firms through the first three months of this year, according to congressional lobbying filings.

Mr. Balasa has worked with the leaders of the Connecticut Society, the lobbying firm employed by the Connecticut Society, and American Medical Technologists (AMT), which has been fully supportive of the legislative effort and is paying half the lobbyist fees.