Sentences with phrase «registered as a lobbyist»

In his appearance before a parliamentary committee, Facebook Canada's public policy head Kevin Chan was questioned by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus on why he had yet to register as a lobbyist, given the fact he's met senior cabinet members, including Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Fenwick McKelvey, an assistant professor in information and communication technology policy at Concordia University, said it's intriguing Facebook is not registered as a lobbyist, given that it's the most - popular social network.

Jiles registered as a lobbyist starting in December 2007, and then only for some clients.

And in 2004, Sean Holman, who got the Washington documents causing the latest scuffle through an FOI request, wrote about Kinsella's failure to register as a lobbyist.

Whatever the case, Mr. Freedlander wasn't registered as a lobbyist.

The City Council last February ordered that anyone working to influence city business register as a lobbyist in Highland Park.

CSNY registered as a lobbyist with the CPI and also has retained Allison Lee, of DKC's lobbying arm.

Duffy won't be registering as a lobbyist, but he's still adhering to a two - year ban on lobbying his old colleagues in the administration — a ban that includes Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

King never registered as a lobbyist for these minority firms but he did register, through one of his lobbying firms, for a company that was picked to manage $ 30 million of pension funds, Plainfield Asset Management.

«I had had a discussion with Howard Glaser and Howard's sense was I shouldn't register as a lobbyist,» Howe testified.

He never registered as a lobbyist with Potomac Strategies, which was unsurprising since he kept the existence of the entity totally secret from WOH.

A West Side neighborhood group has filed an ethics complaint against Kristen John Foy, a top lieutenant of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, for failing to register as a lobbyist even though he's promoting Airbnb.

While he has lobbied the federal government for years, Howe only registered as a lobbyist with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics in December.

But in 2015, the Campaign for One New York decided not to register as a lobbyist because the group was mainly focused on launching The Progressive Agenda, de Blasio's somewhat failed effort to make income inequality a central issue in the 2016 presidential elections.

So they didn't have to register as lobbyists.

The statement said, «Ed Cox should register as a lobbyist and stop breaking the law in true Nixon fashion.»

Per the Senate report on the Amended Executive Budget, it will «consider whether a political consultant should be permitted to register as a lobbyist.

But Indig has never registered as a lobbyist despite advocating on issues important to the Orthodox community, sources said.

The panel, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, has been investigating the nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, since last year, seeking to determine whether it ran afoul of state regulations by failing to register as a lobbyist in 2015.

The governor also pointedly mentioned a proposal that would require political consultants to elected officials register as lobbyists, an area in which Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York City has come under fire.

Even if IE reform is a heavy lift, other lawmakers were pointing to the remarks from Cuomo on Wednesday at Fordham — including a push to have consultants register as lobbyists — as being a way to subtly critique Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom the governor has feuded with over the last year.

It's unclear what work Percoco was doing for both companies and the law prohibits him from registering as a lobbyist so soon after leaving state employment.

One provision in the agreement is expected to crack down on political consultants who provide «grassroots» lobbying services, but do not register as lobbyist themselves.

Contained in the advisory opinion was a provision that would require consultants who register as lobbyists to reveal when they speak with a newspaper editorial board.

The November Team, a PR firm that is led by Bill O'Reilly, Jessica Proud and Jerry McKinstry, has blasted JCOPE for an advisory opinion that required political consultants to register as lobbyists when they engage in a form of «grassroots» lobbying.

At 1 p.m., JCOPE hosts an «informal roundtable discussion» on proposed guidelines regarding requiring PR specialists to register as lobbyists, 25 Beaver St., Manhattan.

A slew of prominent communications firms may be forced to register as lobbyists under a proposal by the state ethics commission, JCOPE.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta has registered as a lobbyist, representing five clients, including A. Vournou Construction Management Group, a Syosset contractor affiliated with a firm with a $ 20 million contract to build a new county crime lab.

«We can find no exception to the requirement that those entities register as lobbyists and report their lobbying as required under state law.»

The State Joint Commission on Public Ethics is also examining whether the Campaign for One New York violated lobbying rules by not registering as a lobbyist last year, according to multiple people familiar with the inquiry.

Because Sachs had never registered as a lobbyist, the full list of his clients remains unknown.

«If you don't register as a lobbyist, someone has to drop a dime on you.

State lobbying records show Lhota is registered as a lobbyist for an entity called New York University Hospitals Center through 2018.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, kept his communications with Howe confined to his personal email, shielded from the eyes of the state — and Howe didn't register as a lobbyist.

«My sense was that if I registered as a lobbyist in the state of New York, that it would curtail my activities by limiting what I could do and documenting many of those projects that I worked on,» Howe told the court.

They're a constant source of low - level grumbling within Albany's lobbying community: the influential consultants, close to powerful officials, who aren't actually registered as lobbyists.

People who work to procure state contracts currently don't register as lobbyists - they should.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics proposal would see businesses being forced to register as lobbyists.

The only firm to register as a lobbyist for Spruce, in 2014 and 2015, was Capalino & Co., which is run by de Blasio pal and campaign donor James Capalino.

The idea is to cover «people who are not currently registered as lobbyists but are doing what can be considered lobbying activity,» said commission spokesman Walt McClure.

Political consultants who advise elected officials while also representing clients before the government do not currently register as lobbyists either - and they should also.

Hilltop officials did not register as a lobbyist for the firm.

All are registered as lobbyists before the state.

DraftKings, FanDuel and Fantasy Sports for All failed to register as lobbyists and under - reported their lobbying expenses to persuade Albany to legalize the online rotisserie leagues, one source said.

The ethics panel, the state's Commission on Public Integrity, investigated Mr. Sachs's conduct at the request of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit organization that filed a complaint with the commission in February alleging that Mr. Sachs had violated ethics laws by failing to register as a lobbyist.

Government watchdog groups also noted that evidence showed Percoco and other Cuomo staffers using private email to conduct public business, a lobbyist saying he was advised by an administration official that registering as a lobbyist would make it more difficult to operate, and a contributor being coached on how to hide donations to Cuomo to avoid campaign limits.

A Cuomo spokesman said the governor used the name of the campaign on the state website months before the group registered as a lobbyist.

Such advocacy, the commission determined, did not meet the definition of lobbying under state law and did not require Mr. Sachs to register as a lobbyist.

New York's JCOPE is contemplating requiring «public relations» firms such as Hilltop to register as lobbyists.

Howe did not register as a lobbyist in New York state.