Sentences with phrase «state as lobbyists»

Individuals who have registered with the state as lobbyists within the past year are also prohibited from serving on the commission.

Adam Skelos was not registered with the state as a lobbyist, and county lawmakers said they didn't know he had often contacted county officials before the contract's 2013 approval.

After Governor Scott Walker and the state legislature killed collective bargaining in Wisconsin, the D.C. based National Education Association sent its chief of staff, John Stocks, to the Badger State as a lobbyist.

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When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Advocates, lobbyists and even some state lawmakers privately fear this could become one of the least productive legislative sessions in years as «scandal fatigue» pervades the Capitol and criminal allegations dominate the headlines and deflate the desire to get things done.

As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for public school students this year, taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy in the education system.

A former Cuomo aide, Joe Percoco, has received payments from two companies linked to state contracts, while lobbyist Todd Howe, who represented those firms linked to development, is under investigation as well.

State Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King is keeping the pressure on GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio to reveal the details of his compensation as a JPMorgan Chase lobbyist, sending a letter to the chair of the firm's compensation committee seeking information about his salary and non-salary benefits from 2005 through the present.

The race had hinged in large part on two different visions: Faso was knocked by Teachout for his work as a lobbyist and tenure as a state lawmaker in the Democratic - led Assembly.

That's how one of state government's best - known lobbyists described the atmosphere at the Capitol as lawmakers face what is expected to be a series of bitterly contested and highly divisive reelection battles next year in the midst of a bitter and highly divisive presidential campaign.

The actors have endorsed the Fair Elections reform package which includes a system of matching small donations with public funds, as well as lower contribution limits, restrictions on contractors and lobbyists doing business with the state, and greater enforcement and transparency.

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.

A spectrum of New York p.r. firms filed suit Tuesday to force the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics to drop its lunatic bid to treat them as lobbyists.

Sikora said his experience as a lobbyist gave him insight into state government.

Powers is well - connected in city and state politics, having been employed by former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone as a lobbyist and chief of staff for former Assemblymember Jonathan Bing, and endorsed by Bing and neighboring Upper East Side City Council Member Ben Kallos.

A well - liked, respected, hard - charging attorney general who talks tough about cleaning up the scandal - plagued, lobbyist - run institution known as New York state government has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for governor.

The paper cited recent reports by the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) as evidence of the outsized influence that Albany lobbyists currently enjoy.

Howe was a paid adviser to the SUNY Polytechnic Institute as well as COR and LPCiminelli — both of which won contracts to build multi-million dollar high - tech facilities for the school — but only recently registered as a state lobbyist.

John Murphy, who had worked as a political organizer and lobbyist for the Public Employees Federation of white collar state workers, contends in court papers that he was «ridiculed, harassed and humiliated» after he had to cut back his duties and hours to attend physical therapy sessions following an August 2014 accident.

The city's top lobbyist, a nursing home operator and a property appraisal firm are among those who have been subpoenaed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as part of an investigation he has opened into an ongoing city land use scandal.

Melissa DeRosa, the first woman to serve as secretary to the governor — the equivalent of the chief of staff post for a president in the executive chamber — recounted that despite her resume as a top official in Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office and role in the state campaign for President Barack Obama, she has been defined in the media by her relationship to her lobbyist father and husband, a former Cuomo spokesman who now works for Uber.

These are the people who make those decisions, from lobbyists whose names stay out of the press to the famous «three men in a room» that hash out the state budget to the prosecutor who has emerged as the fourth man in that room, listening in on every deal and upending the status quo of a place that seemed like it would never change.

Howe, who was a lobbyist who also worked as an adviser to state officials on development projects, has reportedly pleaded guilty to charges of bribery, extortion, and wire fraud, and is cooperating with authorities.

Manhattan - based Park Strategies, which is also one of the larger state lobbyists, filed in Nassau to represent 20 clients, including Forest City Ratner (which also registered its own employees as lobbyists); Gannett Fleming Engineers, which has won more than $ 6 million in county contracts since 2011, mostly to design and oversee wastewater treatment plant improvements; and Allvision, a company that was poised to erect large electronic billboards across Nassau before the project stalled earlier this year.

Currently, the county posts scanned copies of filed reports on its website, but users can not easily search for or cross-reference specific clients or lobbyists, as they can with the state system.

As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterwayAs many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterwayas a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

Those under investigation include Joseph Percoco, one of Cuomo's closest aides, and Todd Howe, a lobbyist whose law firm had relationships with several companies that received work from the state as well as state entities in charge of awarding that work.

Jennifer Cunningham, a lobbyist for the state's gargantuan health - workers» union, which can be expected to provide the most powerful opposition to reforming New York's bloated Medicaid system, helped run Cuomo's 2006 race for attorney general and continues to serve as an informal adviser to him.

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.

As the 2016 session of the Legislature wrapped up last week and came to a typically ugly end in the wee hours Saturday morning — with bleary - eyed lawmakers forced to vote on measures they didn't even have time to read — The Post asked several lawmakers, lobbyists and journalists to assess the first full year's performance of Democrat Heastie, a key ally of Mayor de Blasio, and Flanagan, the most powerful Republican in the state.

JCOPE spokesman Walter McClure said it was «routine for JCOPE staff and the executive director to speak with executive and legislative officials, ethics officers and counsels and others from state agencies, and lobbyists and their clients as part of the commission's mandate to provide ethics guidance.»

Howe, a former lobbyist with the firm Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna, represented firms that had contracts with the under - investigation Buffalo Billion, as well as SUNY Polytechnic, which is being investigated by the state attorney general's office.

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.

Todd Howe, the Washington - based lobbyist who is under federal investigation and has close ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has quietly been added to a state ethics website as a lobbyist for entities also tied up in the probe.

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

While it is widely known that some companies and foreign governments gave money to the foundations, perhaps in an effort to gain favor, one of the key parts of the puzzle hasn't been reported: At least a dozen of those same companies lobbied the State Department, using lobbyists who doubled as major Clinton campaign fundraisers.

Bill Collins, a former top aide to disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is back at the state Capitol as a lobbyist.

«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.

ALBANY — After the sentencing of Sheldon Silver last week and the sentencing of Dean Skelos on Thursday, there was this sighting at the State Capitol: a lobbyist covering his mouth with a hand as he talked into his cellphone.

«Contrary to the defendant's argument that his crime was victimless,» the U.S. attorney's office added, «the people of the State of New York are victims whenever, as here, an elected official abuses the trust the public placed in him by accepting secret payoffs from lobbyists and by covering up his conduct.»

Teachout, meanwhile, struck a note of economic populism, calling for stricter banking regulations, higher corporate taxes and renegotiation of foreign trade deals, while painting Faso, who served 15 years in the state Assembly and has worked as a lobbyist, as a standard - bearer for the status quo.

A close personal adviser to Cuomo in his bid to become state attorney general in 2006 and his run for governor in 2010, she deregistered as a lobbyist in 2010 when Cuomo and her ex-husband, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, were elected, in order «to avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest.

While Mulrow was listed as a Blackstone lobbyist working to influence the $ 289 billion New York state pension system, Blackstone secured hundreds of millions of dollars in new pension investment commitments for the firm — far more than it had during the four - year period before Cuomo's first term.

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.

The New York Post reported this morning that Pataki was in the mix, as is Al D'Amato, one of the state's top lobbyists.

Silver's long - suffering wife, Rosa, remained stoic, even as Caproni lit into her husband for his politically - charged extramarital affairs which Bharara's prosecutors detailed in filings — one with a lobbyist who had extensive business before the state and another with a former beauty - queen turned assemblywoman who landed two cushy public - service jobs.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics told the TU that «As a general matter, a reportable business relationship is one in which a lobbyist or client pays compensation to a state official who provides goods or services in return.