Sentences with phrase «said key aides»

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In his understated way, aides and friends said, he has advanced gay causes by appointing gay men and lesbians to key positions and, as attorney general, cracking down on two companies accused of discriminating on the basis of sexuality.

The government's key witness in its bribery case against a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he participated in bribery schemes with his longtime friend.

A Democratic official who has spoken to Al Franken and key aides says Franken will resign his Minnesota Senate seat tomorrow, the official tells MPR News.

The WSJ's Michael Howard Saul has a very interesting piece today on a Bloomberg aide who is on the City Hall payroll and also gets paid privately by the mayor and is said to be a key witness in Vance's case.

And Gallo, who ran on a campaign of accountability and transparency in government, said the appointment of trusted campaign aides to key posts in city government is necessary to make that promise a reality.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The government's key witness in the bribery trial of a former top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the witness stand Monday against a friend he likened to a brother, saying he found corrupt businessmen willing to pay bribes to help his friend cope with financial difficulties.

Prosecutors said in return a top de Blasio aide arranged a key meeting «in an effort to pressure the agency to make its proposed settlement terms more favorable to Singh.»

Cuomo directed Percoco, the focus of an ongoing probe by corruption - fighting US Attorney Preet Bharara, and Schwartz, Cuomo's former chief of staff, and a handful of other trusted aides to allow Pigeon to attend key strategy meetings at the campaign headquarters from which virtually all other political operatives were excluded, said the campaign source.

A Clinton aide said the plan was a «a key plank of Clinton's plan to challenge the stranglehold that wealthy interests have over our political system» and would allow «Americans to establish common sense rules to protect against the undue influence of billionaires and special interests and to restore the role of average voters in elections.»

Getting the public involved is key, said Leslie Alden, an aide to county Supervisor Kate Sears, who represents southern Marin.

The House bill that passed in June doesn't include such authority, and aides to key senators say it's not in the discussion right now.

«I hope all in all it's going to be smooth sailing,» said Tom Wolanin, an aide to Representative William D. Ford, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee, and a key architect of the House bill.

While Emanuel has previously said his administration played no role in the contract, the Tribune reported Monday that key Emanuel aides, Chicago school leaders and the consultants had multiple conversations in the months, weeks and days leading up to Emanuel's hand - picked school board awarding the contract in June 2013.

Needless to say that, the way you determine and handle an interview failure, pointing out key factors and working on these points will aide in future interviews results.