Sentences with phrase «powered lobbying firm»

In addition to wearing those hats, Blessinger hired a high - powered lobbying firm to influence the Albany legislation that he would then be charged with overseeing in an advisory capacity.

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.

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.

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Lobbying \ consulting firms swelled in power and prestige as the heyday of the old clubhouse bosses came to an end.

Executives at those companies are named in the complaint, including Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., an executive at Competitive Power Ventures, who oversaw lobbying and public relations for the firm; and Steve Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, the president and and general counsel, respectively, at COR Development.

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.

A report being released Friday by the Public Accountability Initiative examines the money spent on the consulting and lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs by Competitive Power Ventures as the trial of a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo loomed.

The companies, according to a source and to companies that have acknowledged separate subpoenas, include: six full - service development and real estate companies, three real estate firms, three engineering / architecture firms, two manufacturers, two lobbying firms, a power - plant company, a construction firm and a cellphone tower / communications company.

Former Niagara County Republican Sen. George Maziarz, who in 2014 ended 19 years in the upper house under a cloud of investigation, is emerging from two years of self - imposed exile to join a high - powered Albany lobbying firm, Patricia Lynch & Associates.

A Democratic power broker from Harlem has been hired by a prominent lobbying firm to join its efforts to influence city and state government.

Along the way, he took his first steps into the professional world, with stints in the office of Gov. George E. Pataki, at the Long Island Power Authority, at a real estate appraisal service and at a lobbying firm.

[TCI] a British fund, which owns 9.9 % of the firm, has been politely but firmly lobbying J - Power to appoint two TCI representatives to its board, improve margins and unwind cross-shareholdings with other firms.

In charge of writing a new rule to limit mercury poisoning of children by electric power plants, Holmstead embraced a watered - down rule that essentially was written by his old lobbying firm of Latham & Watkins.

The National Multi Housing Council / National Apartment Association lobbying group dismisses the bans affecting AMLI and other multifamily property owners as «improper exercises of power and misguided attempts by the FCC to manufacture competition through regulation instead of forcing the telecom firms to compete for new business.»