Sentences with phrase «pay of aides»

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio slashed the pay of aides hired under predecessor Mike Bloomberg even as he lavished $ 2 million in raises on his City Hall staff.

Mayor de Blasio slashed the pay of aides hired under predecessor Mike Bloomberg even as de Blasio lavished $ 2 million in raises on his City Hall staff.

Not exact matches

The Atlantic reported that Pruitt went behind the White House's back to give a pair of aides pay raises worth tens of thousands of dollars after the administration had already rejected the salary bumps.

A former Department of Defense aide used a government credit card to pay large bar tabs, NBC News reports.

Unlike traditional competitors, Hometeam trains the aides itself, brings them on as full - time employees and pays them $ 15 per hour, versus the industry standard of $ 9.50.

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

A former top military aide to Secretary Ash Carter used a government credit card to pay large bar tabs at strip clubs in Rome and in South Korea frequented by prostitutes and engaged in «inappropriate» behavior with women, a long - awaited report by the Department of Defense Inspector General released Thursday found.

That's a shift from much of the recovery, which has been marked by outsized gains in lower - paying fields such as restaurants, retail and home health care aides.

An aide to Rep. Shawn Harrison of Florida was fired Tuesday after claiming the teens were not actually victims, but paid actors.

that book says I only had to die once and then the judgement, but we may have to postpone the Big Day a bit so I can go down there and shed some blood because of those bone - headed followers of mine...» He hasn't gotten back to me... but you're right there, my son, William, they are pretty damn wicked....god - damned I'll tell ya... BTW, William, like your thoughts... If I do come back we'll have to get together... maybe you could be, like, an Aide or something... can't promise you it'll be good pay, but, we can always milk the Televangelist out of a few bucks... let me know...

With Suffolk facing «the greatest fiscal crisis in its history,» County Executive Steve Bellone and his top aides will freeze their salaries and start paying a portion of their health care.

Cuomo's new chief of staff, Maria Comella, a lifelong Republican and former top aide to NJ Gov. Chris Christie, has immediately become one of state government's highest paid staffers, pulling down $ 175,000 a year.

A close aide of Adekanye, who craved anonymity, said on Saturday that family members of the kidnapped APC chieftains offered to pay the abductors N10 million which they accepted.

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.

«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.

The plan would also increase the wages of home health aides over the next six years so their pay is above the statewide minimum wage.

A prosecutor was noncommittal when asked by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni if the government plans to retry Peter Kelly Jr., an energy executive accused of paying bribes to Joe Percoco, a convicted former aide to Cuomo.

He'll soon launch a two - week tour of upstate, aides said, paying a visit to ever district represented by a Democratic Assembly member.

A Cuomo aide hit back, listing accomplishments over his seven years in office, including paid family leave, a $ 15 minimum wage, marriage equality, raising the age of criminal responsibility — and the SAFE Act, which requires universal background checks to buy a gun.

Justice Zweibel ordered Mr. Haggerty to pay restitution of $ 750,000, the amount he was convicted of stealing from Mr. Bloomberg by tricking his campaign aides into donating to the state's Independence Party in 2009.

ALBANY — While unionized state workers are getting hit with three years of wage freezes, and Gov. Cuomo and his top aides are taking 5 percent wage cuts, state Senate Republicans are doling out pay hikes to most of their Capitol staffers, The Post has learned.

He highlighted the bribery conviction of Cuomo's former closest aide, saying New Yorkers pay a «corruption tax» because of the cost of institutionalized graft and failed state - financed economic development projects.

Under questioning from a prosecutor, Kerri Hamm, a former teaching consultant with Lisa Percoco at CPV, often characterized Lisa Percoco's duties as less taxing than her work, though Hamm was paid less than the $ 90,000 annual fee given to the wife of the former Cuomo aide.

A top Senate aide to former majority leader Dean Skelos set up a meeting on fracking with the state Department of Health for AbTech Industries without disclosing the company was paying Skelos» son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month, a former state health official testified Wednesday at the Skelos corruption trial.

«Hancock, the skills minister and a former aide to George Osborne, said his party needed to be seen to be tackling the causes not just of excessively high pay, but also unjustified low pay.

Speaking through a statement signed by his media aide, Sunday Sanusi, a former vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Adewole said he was ready to serve the nation without pay.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City alleged in a criminal complaint Thursday that Aiello and Gerardi, both founders of Fayetteville - based Cor, paid bribes to Howe and Joseph Percoco, a former Cuomo aide, to use their influence to obtain state - funded construction contracts.

If former senior Cuomo aide Joe Percoco is acquitted, the verdict could potentially open a new floodgate of pay - to - play schemes in New York.

Those dealings led to nine former Cuomo associates, including the governor's former closest aide and a highly paid former State University of New York official, being charged with felonies ranging from bribery to bid - rigging.

The wife of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco was paid more than $ 22,500 for less than half a week's worth of work at an alleged «low - show» job, according to testimony at her husband's corruption trial Wednesday.

Gubernatorial press aides then contacted several reporters, three of them said, hoping to have them ask if the governor was inclined to give state lawmakers a pay raise this year.

And he highlighted the bribery conviction of Cuomo's former closest aide, saying New Yorkers pay a «corruption tax» because the cost of institutionalized graft and failed state - financed economic development projects.

At the time, his aides would not disclose how much he was to be paid in the future, creating a minor literary mystery — at least among the narrow audience interested in the fine print of book contracts or the governor's personal finances.

In the wake of the September arrest of several individuals, including SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros and top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, heightened attention was paid to the governor's successful 2011 push to strip the comptroller's office of the authority to pre-approve SUNY and CUNY contracts.

Witnesses describe a pay - to - play atmosphere, where donors were given special access to the governor and his top aides, and the questionable practice of Percoco using his state offices while he was not a state employee, and instead managing the governor's 2014 re-election campaign.

He told reporters the trial of Governor Cuomo's closest aide, Joe Percoco, going on inside the courthouse, is revealing that Cuomo presided over a pay to play culture in his office, where large donors to his campaign were rewarded with special favors.

An official from an energy company linked to alleged bribes of nearly $ 300,000 paid to former Andrew Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco through his wife testified in Manhattan federal court Thursday that the payments were suspicious from the start.

Last month, The Post revealed that de Blasio had slashed the pay of more than a dozen aides held over from the Bloomberg administration, while showering his own appointees with more than $ 2 million in raises.

In the final year of the Cameron government, 20 advisers breached the new pay cap and the total bill for political aides reached # 9.2 million.

Jurors at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Gov. Cuomo saw photos on Tuesday of the governor palling around with a co-defendant charged in a «pay - to - play» bribery...

So though the mayor's aides talk about «multiplying» his base of support beyond the black, Latino, and liberal whites who made up his winning coalition, the administration knows it has to pay special attention to delivering for his core supporters.

That zinger referenced the recent corruption conviction of Cuomo aide Joesph Percoco who referred to pay - to - play payoffs as ziti.

Silver is accused of directing Glenwood to hire a real estate law firm run by a former aide, which then paid him handsomely for doing no work, while Skelos is charged with directing the developer to pay his son's title insurance company $ 20,000 for work it did not do.

She had earned that monthly income since December 2012 although CPV paid her through an obscure Connecticut LLC to conceal the fact that it had hired the wife of a gubernatorial aide while the company was seeking favor from state officials as it developed a controversial power plant in Orange County.

The former longtime and closest aide to Cuomo (whom the late Gov. Mario Cuomo considered a «third son,» Andrew Cuomo once said) now stands accused of using his influence to rig lucrative state construction contracts for campaign contributors who, in turn, paid him bribes.

He said the trial of Cuomo's former aide, Joe Percoco, going on inside the courthouse, is revealing that Cuomo presided over a pay - to - play culture in his office, where large donors to his campaign were rewarded with special favors.

Jurors at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Gov. Cuomo saw photos on Tuesday of the governor palling around with a co-defendant charged in a «pay - to - play» bribery scheme involving a state - funded revitalization project upstate.

There's one guaranteed outcome of the bribery trial of a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo: another black eye for Albany's long tradition of pay - to - play politics.

Five home health aides have sued the state to end an emergency rule letting agencies pay aides for just 13 hours of a 24 - hour shift.

Instead, it became evidence Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is on trial with three businessmen who allegedly paid him more than $ 300,000 in bribes.