Sentences with phrase «top aide»

During his earlier remarks, he referred to last month's conviction of the governor's former top aide on corruption charges.

His comments came during private budget talks with top aides, a source close to the governor said.

And as the clock ticks down to the budget deadline, secondary matters are often decided by top aides and then approved by their bosses.

A third top aide is attending business outside the building.

The news comes shortly after two of the senator's top aides resigned last week.

But it turns out that the governor had not one, but two ways to know if his current or former top aides have any business deals that could present an ethical conflict.

The Prime Minister's former spin doctor also accused the pair of top aides of «damaging» aggression and arrogance in an article describing her painful» ten months working at Downing Street.

Cuomo, in a conference call with reporters Friday, was asked to comment on testimony at the trial of former top aide Joe Percoco, where Cuomo's current chief of staff testified that Percoco continued to periodically inhabit his office adjoining the governor's during a time when Percoco was off the state payroll, managing Cuomo's reelection campaign.

It is not unusual for outlines of large, packaged compromises in Albany to be announced for the details have been sorted out, even as top aides and lawmakers work out the final language.

Twelve jurors were selected today in the long - awaited New York state corruption trial involving two Syracuse developers, an energy company executive and a former top aide in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A former top aide for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and several others are under investigation over improper lobbying tactics and conflicts of interest in connection to the «Buffalo Billion» project.

CSEA President Danny Donohue said the Paterson administration was «incompetent» after Paterson's top aide said Donohue needed to adopt a «more mature tone.»

ALBANY — State Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco on Wednesday called on Gov. Cuomo to name a special prosecutor to look into why a former top aide who left the payroll to run the governor's 2014 re-election campaign was allowed to continue using his old state office.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco, who is seeking the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said Feb. 8, 2018, that Cuomo should «man up» and explain the «serious» ethics revelations emerging from the trial of Cuomo's longtime top aide Joseph Percoco.

The governor didn't initially plan to tour the Aloft Hotel construction site, but Kennedy said he added it to Cuomo's itinerary at the insistence of top aide Joseph Percoco, Kennedy testified in Manhattan federal court.

Another famous governor across the Hudson River saw his political fortunes decline rapidly after the conviction of former top aides on corruption charges, but Cuomo's situation is markedly different from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's, Montclair State University professor of political science Brigid Harrison told POLITICO.

The January 2016 letter from Risa Sugarman, the state Board of Elections» chief enforcement counsel, accuses de Blasio and his team, including top aide Emma Wolfe, of purposely violating election law by routing donations to three upstate senate candidates by using county committees to avoid donation limits.

A former investment banker at the Blackstone Group, Mr. Mulrow joined the Cuomo administration this year after several top aides departed.

The panel backed the nominations of former Sen. Mark Grisanti, a Republican who voted in favor of both the SAFE Act and same - sex marriage legalization, as well as Robert Schwartz, the brother of former Cuomo top aide Larry Schwartz.

That is a process that was championed by former Gov. David Paterson, whose top aide at the time was Schwartz.

The federal district courthouse in lower Manhattan where former Cuomo top aide Joe Percoco is on trial

Democratic colleagues of the president including other Cabinet ministers, several senators and top aides made the list, among them: Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts (but not his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and White House Budget Director Peter Orszag.

A January 2016 letter from Risa Sugarman, the state Board of Elections» chief enforcement counsel, which was leaked to the Daily News in April, accused de Blasio and his team, including top aide Emma Wolfe, of purposely violating election law by routing donations to three upstate senate candidates by using county committees to avoid donation limits.

The fallout continues over whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aide interfered with an ethics commission probe, with some now saying that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman could have done more to protect the integrity of the investigations.

According to a Cuomo spokeswoman, the governor's new top aide, Melissa DeRosa, is «actively engaged» with JCOPE, the state's ethics - advisory agency, «to ensure that even the appearance of impropriety is avoided» ahead of her starting her new position later this year.

The story relied on reports made by State Police assigned to provide security for Bruno and were obtained from top aides of Governor Eliot Spitzer via the Freedom Of Information Law (FOIL).

She was replaced by Dennis Walcott, a former Board of Education president and now top aide to the mayor on educational issues.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's chief of staff testified at a criminal trial Wednesday that the Democrat expressed surprise when a former top aide told him about his financial dealings after a 2016 law enforcement raid on the aide's home.

No, said Cabinet members from Romney's gubernatorial era and a current top aide.

In 2012, the Cuomo administration sent top aides to the State Archives to screen, and then remove from public view, records from Cuomo's tenure as attorney general that archivists had given to journalists to review.

Several days later, Cuomo's top aide Melissa DeRosa gave a speech recounting her own sexual harassment and urging other women to speak up.

Trump's top aides sought today, in television talk show appearances, to defend the House Republicans» health care bill that Trump has embraced despite opposition from conservatives.

Several top aides departed after Cuomo's 2014 reelection, and Percoco «said the governor needed him,» Lacewell said.

Perez Williams later said she resigned over differences with other top aides in the mayor's office.

Minutes after the governor's 11 a.m. apartment visit, de Blasio's top aides announced a 1:30 p.m. news conference to defend their out - of - town boss and discuss «the state's new interest in helping» NYCHA.

«We are at a starting line today, where a new history of peace, prosperity and inter-Korean relations is being written,» Kim said before the two Korean leaders and top aides began talks at the border truce village of Panmunjom.

del Duca, formerly the vice president of New York City's Stonewall Democrats Club, is a long standing champion of LGBT rights and has been Diaz's top aide since his Assembly days.

MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A one - time top aide to disgraced former state comptroller Alan Hevesi who admitted to scamming $ 19 million from the state pension fund was sentenced to between 1 1/3 rd to four years in prison Thursday.

«Top aides arrested, signature initiatives plagued by corruption, widening scandals at every turn,» the Republican committee said in a release on its website, which made reference to «ziti,» a code used for illicit payments according to the 2016 criminal charges.

Cuomo's then top aide, Steven Cohen, later revealed the AG had recused himself from any investigation of EnTrust, turning that portion of the probe over to Special Counsel Linda Lacewell.

Perhaps the most controversial episode of Silver's career before his indictment was his handling of rape accusations against top aide J. Michael Boxley and, later, sexual - harassment allegations against the recently deceased Assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic power broker Vito Lopez.

One focus for Mueller is a rainy weekend that Trump and top aides spent holed up at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, shortly before Comey was fired.

Several of Obama's former top aides responded quickly on Twitter, slamming the president's comments and calling him a liar.

Trump was reportedly fuming over the news early in the morning, holed up in the White House residence and consulting with his lawyers and top aides over how he could hit back, several people close to Trump told The Post.

Cohn is the latest top aide to depart the White House in recent weeks: Staff Secretary Rob Porter was fired last month amid domestic violence allegations, and Communications Director Hope Hicks announced her departure last week.

Last fall, in response to increasing scrutiny surrounding its role as a central instrument of Russian election interference, Facebook hired top aides to former Obama Administration officials (Biden, Kerry), as well as the former chief of staff for Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia.

De Blasio failed to notch any notable victories this year at the state level, where he dispatched top aides to help Democrats reclaim the State Senate, but saw most of his preferred candidates defeated by double digit margins.

ALBANY — The first term of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was marked by a now - infamous quip made by the governor's original top aide during his first year on the job: «We operate on two speeds here: Get along, and kill.»