Sentences with phrase «power brokers on»

Labor unions have emerged in the past 40 years as one of the biggest power brokers on all social policy issues concerning the education of our youth.

There are times where directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk's film becomes something more akin to hagiographic fawning than it does a journalistic exercise in putting politicians and corporate power brokers on notice.

The Four Seasons Restaurant was particularly packed with power brokers on Tuesday afternoon.

Nxivm — a secretive group headquartered in Albany — has had countless well - connected power brokers on its payroll, including the father of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

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Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high - powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko.

Facebook decided to let its own advertisers harness the power of these data brokers with its Partner Categories over on its ad platform.

The day before shareholders voted 99.8 % in favour of the merger, Canadian Business sat down for an exclusive interview with the power brokers behind Bay Street's most recent high - profile partnership to discuss the deal, investment banking, the economy and life on the Street.

I was a young broker then, and he was already a power player, marketing the new Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue — the building that was going to make him a legend.

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God here is judge and power - broker; recovery hinges on how well the individual submits to God.

Its owners are people who are successful within the system, who are key power brokers in the system, and whose livelihood is dependent on the system continuing as it is.

The NBJ Summit attracts over 400 of the nutrition industry's brightest minds and most influential power brokers for unparalleled education, strategic thinking and discussion on the progress, opportunities and challenges facing the industry.

NBJ Summit June 13 — 16 Dana Point, CA The NBJ Summit attracts over 300 of the nutrition industry's brightest minds and most influential power brokers for unparalleled education, strategic thinking and discussion on the progress, opportunities and challenges facing the industry.

Patterson also wrote a book, Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE, which discussed his career, detailed his relationship with partner Louie Dondero of 40 years, touched on controversies, and gave a glimpse into the life of one of WWE's first power brokers.

The northern power marriage of Ramsay Bolton to Sansa Stark, brokered by Littlefinger, was a disaster for Sansa, who was raped on her wedding night while Theon / Reek was forced to watch.

Because of not just our influence on the markets but also clearly other power brokers in sports betting are using the same metrics we are.

Any more serious than the journalistic bird brains who have insisted on calling the wretched Warner «a power broker.»

It was here that it occurred to me that all four of these former Hollywood power brokers stand a better chance of sharing a reality TV - themed dwelling with Corey Feldman and Emmanuel Lewis than making an impact on pop culture in the near future.

Cuomo, I'm told, also reached out to unions and other power brokers but on behalf of Majority Leader Joe Morelle.

Disgraced former Downtown power broker Sheldon Silver endured his first day back in court on Monday, as prosecutors try to convince a second jury of the former Assembly Speaker's quid - pro-quo corruption scheme after a prior conviction was thrown out on appeal.

BY COLIN MIXSON Disgraced Downtown power broker Sheldon Silver was convicted on corruption charges — for a second time — on May 14,...

There's been scandal - the suspension of MP Michelle Thomson over allegations about property deals, the award of a # 150,000 government grant to the organisers of the profitable T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former SNP adviser - and there's been political ineptitude, most notably when the nationalists were put on the back foot by a Labour pledge to use Holyrood's powers to overturn tax credit cuts.

The two legislative staffers who accused former Assemblyman Vito Lopez of sexual harassment have reached a settlement with the one - time Brooklyn power broker, the state government and former Speaker Sheldon Silver, their lawyer on Thursday announced.

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in nearly a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

Monday's guilty - on - all - counts verdict was swiftly arrived at, and surely chilled the air in the nearby courtroom where US Attorney Preet Bharara has put another erstwhile Albany power broker, former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, on trial for his future.

Disgraced former Downtown power broker Sheldon Silver endured his first day back in court on...

Three aides to GOP power brokers are vying for the nomination on the other side of the aisle: Liam McCabe, a former aide to Congressman Daniel Donovan; John Quaglione, an aide to State Senator Martin Golden; and Bob Capano, an aide to billionaire supermarket mogul and possible mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis.

But it also matters in that Astorino, while giving news conferences on, say, mandate relief and the need for infrastructure investment, will be keeping himself both in the news and keyed in with Albany power brokers, media and the like.

And it's no longer a joke that the Manhattan - based prosecutor might be listening in on every phone call made by an Albany power broker — when former Senate leader Dean Skelos» son told his dad, «You can't talk normally because it's like fucking Preet Bharara is listening to every fucking phone call,» it turned out to be the truth, and is now a matter of public record.

Leading CNNPolitics: First on CNN: O'Malley to mingle with 2016 players at D.C. fundraiser Martin O'Malley will mingle with a handful of early primary state power brokers next week at a closed - door Washington fundraiser for a top South Carolina Democrat.

The race to replace the disgraced New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver seems all but over, with the Assembly's Majority Leader Joe Morelle ending his bid for the job and throwing his support to Bronx power broker Carl Heastie on Friday.

«I hope the sentence I'm going to impose on you will make the next politician hesitate just long enough before taking a bribe or a kickback, for his better angels to take over,» Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni told the ashen - faced former Albany power broker.

Klein, the leader of a group of eight breakaway Democrats and a key power broker in the state Senate, is accused by a former staffer of forcibly kissing her on March 31, 2015, outside an Albany bar.

Anna Kendrick and Rosario Dawson pose with a politically themed pillow.Mayor Mike Bloomberg and New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly were not on hand, having flown back to Manhattan after a car full of explosives was discovered in Times Square, but there were plenty of other power brokers available to fill the vacuum.

«You voted for John Heyer because some other power brokers and power seekers fooled you and your distinguished rabbis, Moshe Wolfson and Yaakov Perlow into thinking Heyer opposed all forms of same gender marriage,» Paladino said, as soon on a YouTube video of the event.

Former US Sen. Alphonse D'Amato, a lobbyist and former GOP power broker, heaped praise on the potential Democratic candidate for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, calling him «a wonderful, qualified young man» and «a credit to his party and his community.»

In the hopes of finding new leads on the case, Suffolk County police today released a portion of surveillance video that shows Oheka Castle owner and political power broker Gary Melius being shot.

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in more than a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

Unfortunately, the political process can become affected by money, where someone's sponsors or the power brokers within the party, insist on policies that benefit them or don't represent the will of the people.

The fallen Bronx power broker said the deal was concocted after he reached out to Halloran in January 2013 for help ensuring that the City Council didn't replace one of Savino's hand - picked commissioners on the city's Board of Elections.

On the other side of those battles is a new class of power brokers pushing back against the mayor's lefty agenda.

Ippolito and Antetomaso were longtime power brokers and — along with the late former supervisor Joseph Colby — wielded influence on Oyster Bay politics in the late 1970s and early»80s.

For 21 years, Mr. Silver was the state's preeminent power broker, negotiating budgets with five different governors and keeping a tight leash on his diverse, and plenty pliant, Assembly.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Federal prosecutors have tried and tried again to take on public corruption in New York, going after several of the state's most powerful politicians and power brokers.

A small group of Democratic Party leaders chose Alice Cancel Sunday as the Democratic candidate who will vie for Silver's seat in a special election on April 19 — but some are calling her candidacy a win for the same old - school power brokers that supported the disgraced Silver.

The number of lobbying clients represented by Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates skyrocketed from nine during the 2013 - 2014 legislative session to 27 in 2015 - 2016 sessions — making Heastie's chum an emerging Albany power broker, records filed with the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics show.

As Dominican voters in Upper Manhattan made their numbers felt, Mr. Espaillat's status as a local power broker seemed on the rise: His two candidates even held their victory party together.

The former Albany power broker remains free on bail until his sentencing on July 13.

Though both of New York's senators, Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, have made up their minds on the agreement that was also brokered by five other world powers, a large chunk of the city's congressional delegation remains undecided.

And depending on the outcome of the elections in November, Klein could become the Senate's ultimate power broker, especially as his independent caucus grows to an expected six members after their candidate won a September primary bid in Manhattan.