Sentences with phrase «senior aide to the governor»

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She also served as a senior aide to now Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on his successful race for Attorney General and in that government office.

A New York Times report alleges that a senior aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo interfered with the work of the Moreland Commission, the group the governor appointed to investigate corruption in Albany.

According to the New York Times report, the governor's senior aide, Larry Schwartz, then pressured the commission to withdraw that order.

Federal corruption charges were announced on Thursday against two former close aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a senior state official and six other people, in a blow to the governor's innermost circle and a repudiation of the way his prized upstate economic development programs were managed.

Some senior Cuomo aides, waiting for the next shoe to drop, have stopped taking calls from other high - level state officials and many, including longtime loyalists to the governor, are talking privately about lasting damage to their reputations from what they believe is Bharara's widening probe, the sources said.

Cuomo's decision to name senior Blackstone Group official William Mulrow as his «secretary,» or top aide, for his second term is being seen by influential Democrats as a likely - to - fail effort to tone down the confrontational image the governor and his former secretary, Larry Schwartz, earned in his first term.

In January, one of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aides departed to work as a senior vice president at Madison Square Garden Co., a company whose executive chairman is close with the governor and one that has a variety of business before the state.

More than a mere aide, Percoco — who left the administration in late 2015 to become a senior vice president for the Madison Square Garden Co. — has been described by the governor as «my father's third son and my brother.»

Robert Mujica, the state's budget director, was a top fiscal aide to the Republicans who control the New York State Senate and Kelly Cummings, the Senate Republicans» former communications director, is also a senior adviser to the governor.

While Cuomo hired several Obama administration and Clinton Campaign veterans earlier this year, the governor's aides noted that Comella is not the only Republican to hold a senior position in his administration.

«They have not yet taken climate change on as a real issue and developed policies,» said a senior aide to one such governor, George E. Pataki of New York.