Sentences with phrase «top state government»

Lasher worked as a top state government lobbyist for Bloomberg and also served as executive director of pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY, a group that has worked to defeat Democrats.

Joe Percoco, the former top aide to Gov. Cuomo who is facing trial on federal corruption charges, «threatened» at least four top state government...

Federal prosecutors brought corruption charges against top state government insiders and business development executives Thursday, scorching Gov. Andrew Cuomo's hallmark upstate economic initiatives.

Joe Percoco, the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is facing trial on federal corruption charges, «threatened» at least four top state government officials who were considering getting jobs in the private sector, prosecutors claim.

Not exact matches

Separately, Japan's top government spokesman said on Friday that Japan would continue to ask the United States to exempt it from Washington's plan to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium.

PLANNED investment in Port Hedland's inner precinct has topped $ 500 million and more cash is likely to be injected as the state government investigates options for expanding the port.

Japan's top government spokesman also said on Friday that Japan would continue to ask the United States to exempt it from the tariffs.

One government official says that top leaders met last spring to consider the worst possible scenarios and concluded they should build new alliances with China, Persian Gulf states, and others, and begin creating their own products in order to end their dependence on the West.

ANALYSIS: Politics and business never mix well, which is something the state government is about to discover with news that former Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls is eyeing a return to his party's top job.

The Chinese government's top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi, said the two will meet on Friday and Saturday in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

Its task would be less to design and implement top - down solutions than to solicit, support, evaluate, and scale up innovative strategies by tapping into ideas developed by state and local governments, businesses, and non-profit institutions.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

(c. 10:25) «In the U.S., the hierarchy looks like this: The government's IOU — the United States dollar — sits at the top of the pyramid.

The visit comes amid the full court press already being mounted by the Trudeau government, which includes sending cabinet ministers to key U.S. states, and pushing the premiers to reach out to their top customers and American state counterparts to save NAFTA.

As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.

«Mr. Speaker, let me state right off the top, it has never been the position of this government to interpret the mandate of the Budget Officer the way he interprets his mandate,» Mr. Clement explained, «and indeed, we have echoes of that from opposition members.»

A top - secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States.

Kurdistan has not agreed to export crude via Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO), a spokesman for the autonomous region's government said on Thursday, contradicting earlier comments by a top energy official in Baghdad.

On top of private sector revamps, state and local governments have been shedding workers in recent years.

Brazil's federal government must provide financial support to the nearly - bankrupt state of Rio de Janeiro in order to avoid the shame of a disappointing Olympics, according to a top official in the administration of Acting President Michel Temer.

According to the startup, 90 percent of the top lenders in the United States use the FICO score, which is in the hands of the U.S. government.

Tom Leary, an analyst at the consulting firm Harbor Aluminum, said the United States has plenty of access to aluminum in Canada, a top ally from which the U.S. government already sources a lot of defense equipment.

To say the United States «deplores» some individual's protected speech is to seek to illegally curb that speech when said by a top government official.

One of the country's top Catholic state schools has been criticised in a report by the government body... More

HR 1599 protects the consumer from a costly and confusing 50 state patchwork of labeling laws by ensuring that the federal government retains its authority at the top of America's food safety pyramid.

She's announced her candidacy for a top role in Maryland's state government.

While disputes stemming from the state «s multitude of governments is nothing new - Illinois tops the 50 states with 6,600 taxing bodies - it is rare that two governments end up taxing residents for nearly the exact same service.

And on top of that, it is estimated to save that state and the federal government $ 2 million each annually.

A top member of the Boko Haram sect, who has been on the wanted list of the Nigeria Army has been arrested in Isua, Akoko South - East local government of Ondo State.

As the federal government seeks a dismissal of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's hydraulic fracturing lawsuit, the state's top lawyer said he's dealing with the issue «at several levels.»

But at the same time, most voters list pocketbook - related matters as top issues for state government: 44 percent believe education should be the top issue, followed by taxes at 39 percent and jobs at 31 percent.

«For emphasis, let us restate the fact that on the basis of the statement obtained from the accused, the Police had issued a statement read publicly at the May 10 press conference in the state capital and there was no mention of their naming or implicating any top government official at the state or federal level.»

«One of my office's top priorities is to restore New Yorkers» faith in their state government, and that means we need to arm our top ethics body with strong and effective leaders,» Schneiderman said.

This is a newly created position, and one that will focus on a top priority of Cuomo's: Reorganizing and right - sizing state government.

Republicans still are sailing into political headwinds this year as they run to keep their last lever of power in state government with Donald Trump at the top of the presidential ticket.

Cuomo's new chief of staff, Maria Comella, a lifelong Republican and former top aide to NJ Gov. Chris Christie, has immediately become one of state government's highest paid staffers, pulling down $ 175,000 a year.

The race is on to see who's fundraising prowess is tops in State Government this year.

Federal prosecutors rested their corruption case against Joe Percoco today, but first displayed a series of emails intended to show the power the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo wielded at the highest levels of state governments.

At 9 a.m., City & State hosts the Digital NY Summit and Awards, with New York's top information technology leaders from government and industry for a daylong, dynamic program of candid discussion and thought - provoking presentations, Manny Cantor Center, 197 E. Broadway, Manhattan.

Accepting the automatic appointment of the European Commission President through the European Parliament would in fact limit the prerogatives of the heads of state and government, preventing them from appointing the least charismatic candidate for the EU's top job.

A recent Siena College poll found 97 percent of the public want state government cleaned up and view it as a top priority.

On top of that, the Seneca Nation filed a complaint over the cigarette tax in federal court and claimed it was giving the state government until Thursday to respond to their demand to postpone its enforcement.

Nearly six weeks after the corruption trial began, jurors Thursday afternoon were dispatched by U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni to begin deliberations into whether Percoco, a longtime confidante of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, used his top government post to enrich himself via bribes paid by two companies with business before the state.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.

On top of these problems, our state faces a huge budget deficit because our government has spent beyond its means for a decade.

He was received by Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun; national leader, All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, former interim National Chairman of APC, Bisi Akande among other top government officials.

The nation's top highway regulator said his agency is working with New York to create a pilot program for the I Love NY highway signs dotting the state's roadways, which the federal government has long said are illegal.

«As both an elected official and candidate for attorney general, I am proud to support this long overdue effort to reform state government from top to bottom.»

At the top of the list was addressing corruption in state government.

Feds: Percoco «threatened at least four» state employeesMembers of the press had long known of Percoco's temper but this filing by the federal government documented Gov. Andrew Cuomo's best friend and confidante allegedly threatening top members of the state government.