Sentences with phrase «top confidant»

Already, the report has led to the forced departure of Kalanick's top confidant, SVP of business Emil Michael, yesterday, which sources sympathetic to him said should be enough to assuage critics.

And yet, here we are; a new Commissioner of Education and two of his top confidants are part of a new policy that will stand as a testament to how far we can move away from the principles and ideals of full and equal access to a quality education.

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Voters like you and I couldn't get that much face time with our representatives, let alone the Prime Minister's top adviser and confidant.

Indeed, top political talent like Patrick Gaspard, a de Blasio confidant who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, and Jennifer Cunningham, a top Democratic operative in the state, cut their teeth at 1199.

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

ALBANY — Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was convicted Tuesday of three felony three corruption charges in connection with accepting more than $ 300,000 in payments from companies with business before the state, according to reports.

Republicans are counting on a weariness of Cuomo after two terms, as well as any damage to his reputation brought as a former top aide and confidant is being investigated by the U.S. attorney's office in a corruption case involving some of Cuomo's high - profile economic development projects.

Cuomo is making the proposed changes after the arrests of prominent upstate developers, former SUNY Polytechnic leader Alain Kaloyeros and Joe Percoco, a former top aide and confidant to the governor, in a bribery and bid - rigging case.

Cuomo's former top aide and confidant, Joe Percoco, is being eyed for his role in economic development programs, while he's also received consulting feeds from companies with business before the state.

Those tied to Cuomo are also facing investigations, including his former top aide and confidant Joe Percoco, who received consulting fees from companies with state contracts while running the governor's re-election campaign.

Over the coming days and weeks, observers should get a glimpse at the inside workings of Cuomo's administration, with some of his top aides expected to testify and one of his closest confidants implicated in the bribery scheme.

Jury selection in the trial of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo confidant and top aide Joe Percoco and others involved in the Buffalo Billion bribery case starts in NYC today.

The complaint announced on Sept. 22 by Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, also resulted in charges against two of Mr. Cuomo's former top aides: Joseph Percoco, who served as his executive deputy secretary and close confidant, and Todd R. Howe, whose relationship with Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, dates back to the days his father, Mario M. Cuomo was governor.

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged in a federal complaint with allegedly engaging in two overlapping schemes involving bribery, corruption and fraud in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official benefits.

The poll also gives Cuomo his lowest job approval rating since 2016 after an eight - week trial in which his longtime top aide and confidant was convicted.

BerlinRosen, a political p.r. firm helmed by top de Blasio confidant Jonathan Rosen, received a subpoena in connection with the investigation last April, but it has denied wrongdoing.

Over the coming days and weeks, observers should get a glimpse at the inside workings of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, with some of his top aides expected to testify and one of his closest confidants implicated in the bribery scheme.

In announcing his plans «to reclaim New York,» Molinaro, a Republican, sent out an email referencing Tuesday's conviction of longtime top Cuomo aide and confidant Joseph Percoco on three felony corruption charges.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo Tuesday afternoon called the conviction of former longtime top aide and confidant Joseph Percoco «personally painful.»

NEW YORK — A wide - ranging corruption trial focused on a former top aide and confidant of Gov. Andrew Cuomo opened in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, co-starring a Connecticut energy lobbyist accused of greasing the administrative skids with $ 7,500 monthly payoffs in attempt to win approval for a controversial power plant.

ALBANY — Charges against a former top aide and decades - long confidant of Gov. Andrew Cuomo could be unsealed as early as Thursday, according to a report posted late Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal.

Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and longtime confidant to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.), has been found guilty of three counts in his federal corruption trial.

Representative Gibson, a retired Army colonel with 24 years of active - duty experience in the military and six in Congress, was widely seen as the strongest Republican contender to pose a challenge to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat who has battled questions over the last several days about a federal investigation into a former top aide and confidant.

In December 2010, Miner's friend and confidant, Councilor - at - Large Bill Ryan, told his colleagues on the council that he was leaving to become a top aide in Miner's administration.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's former top aide and longtime confidant, Lawrence S. Schwartz, has found a job in the private sector.

Then there are Andrea Riseborough (Battle of the Sexes) as the hairdresser who catches Billie Jean King's eye — and for good reason; Julianne Moore (Wonderstruck) in dual roles that traverse decades; Melissa Leo (Novitiate) as a Reverend Mother in crisis as the Catholic church attempts reform; Michelle Williams (All the Money in the World) as Gail Harris, once married to a Getty and now unable to pay her son's kidnapping ransom; and Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) playing Zelda, a chatty co-worker and close confidant to Sally Hawkins» mute protagonist at a top - secret U.S. government facility.

Within days of joining the group, Foster finds himself cozying up with those at the top, becoming the confidant of everyone from the head of the well - oiled militia - lite Aryan Alliance to Tracy Letts hate - spewing, ultra right wing, media personality Dallas Wolf.

It can indeed be lonely at the top, and I have the proven business experience and acumen to be your trusted confidant, mentor or advisor.