Sentences with phrase «top political aide»

Melvin Lowe, a former top political aide to the indicted Sen. John Sampson whose job was nebulous — at best — is being eyed by federal prosecutors as part of a mushrooming corruption probe.

State prosecutors in November and December met with campaign fund - raiser Ross Offinger, top political aide Emma Wolfe, union political operative Josh Gold, and political consultants Bill Hyers and Hayley Prim of Hilltop Public Solutions to answer questions, according to a second political source.

He disappeared into Palmeras, a lobby restaurant, with top political aides including Emma Wolfe, and then walked to the second - floor ballroom alongside his wife, Chirlane McCray, and Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, leader of the Bronx Democratic Party and the nonprofit that sponsors the conference.

WASHINGTON — To hear Rep. Chris Collins» top political aide tell it, the most important part of an ethics report on his boss was the part that wasn't included.

Melvin Lowe, a former top political aide to the indicted state senator, is being eyed by federal prosecutors as part of a mushrooming probe.

The special counsel, Robert Mueller, has obtained a letter that President Trump and a top political aide drafted in the days before Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James Comey, which explains the president's rationale for why he planned to dismiss the director.

The letter, expected to be delivered tomorrow, was written with the approval of Charlie King, the state party's executive director and a top political aide to Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, who has accused Espada in a civil suit of «looting» $ 14 million from his Soundview health - care clinic.

Cuomo was a top political aide to a father who famously dithered in his own presidential exploratory foray, and the son was determined to not get sidetracked by similar whispers.

Asked if he was suggesting that he would base his decision on the outcome of the two grand juries currently weighing whether to charge the mayor and / or his top political aides in two potential criminal schemes, Diaz Jr. quickly dismissed the suggestion.

Emma Wolfe, the mayor's top political aide, said the conversations between city officials and Mr. Heastie's office had been continuous.

On the former, Mr. de Blasio often relied instead on the city's corporation counsel and Henry Berger, the mayor's special counsel; on the latter, he favored his top political aides.

At the meeting, the mayor's top political aide, Emma Wolfe, outlined which of the swing races that year could tip the balance in favor of Democrats in the State Senate.

Emails show Robert Nichols, Republican - turned - Democrat Assemblyman John Ceretto's top political aide, wanted none of the $ 1.6 million in tax dollars Ceretto was allocated last year by legislative leaders went to the town of Wheatfield, all of whose elected members are Republicans, because Town Supervisor Robert Cliffe allegedly gave Nichols and Ceretto the cold shoulder at a public picnic.

Mayor Bill de Blasio loaned his top political aide to this fall's campaign push for a Democratic Senate majority, and he'll tailor his ongoing lobbying to who wins and loses Tuesday.

The string of endorsements come just as the New York Times revealed recently that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance impaneled grand juries to contemplate charging the mayor and / or his top political aides in two alleged schemes over his fundraising.

More than 600 people attended the event, including Emma Wolfe, a top political aide to the mayor who was subpoenaed in the federal probe looking into money funneled to Democratic candidates for state Senate.

Both prosecutors have impaneled grand juries to consider charges against the mayor and / or his top political aides, but de Blasio's office today insisted that his meetings with them were not part of any sort of deal.

Brock McCleary, a top political aide at the National Republican Congressional Committee, will not run for Congress in his home state of Pennsylvania.

De Blasio and a top political aide, Emma Wolfe, a former WFP strategist, were crucial intermediaries.

He served as a top political aide to Bellone and also had close ties with Suffolk County Democratic Chairman Rich Schaffer.

By comparison, the mayor took on a major role in the elections last year — speaking at campaign fundraisers and dispatching his top political aide, intergovernmental affairs director Emma Wolfe, to work on the races.

Chung Seto, a top political aide to City Comptroller John Liu, owes more than $ 100,000 in federal back taxes.

The New York Times revealed last night that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance had impaneled grand juries to consider charging the mayor and / or his top political aides in two potential schemes.

He also called de Blasio «corrupt,» pointing to the parallel probes by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance of de Blasio and / or his top political aides in two potential schemes.

Mayor Bloomberg «s top political aide is pulling back on his lobbying campaign to propel Caroline Kennedy into the US Senate because «it wasn't working,» according to sources.

Mayor Bloomberg's top political aide is pulling back on his lobbying campaign to propel Caroline Kennedy into the U.S. Senate because «it wasn't working,» according to sources.

A top political aide to Brooklyn Democratic leader Clarence Norman Jr. abruptly resigned his $ 62,000 - a-year job with the state Senate Democrats late last week as county leaders prepare for a...

This will let the ambitious anti-corruption crusader to continue to target big game, with the mayor and his top political aides now in his sights.