Howe, then a lobbyist for a subsidiary of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna, hosted a dinner gathering with Cuomo on Dec. 14
in a
small upstairs room of the Fort Orange Club, a baronial brick retreat across the street from Whiteman's Albany
offices and up the block from the state Capitol.
I turned our
office into a dining room (the room's original purpose, according to the floor plan), moved my desk /
office to the loft
upstairs, and took the table out of our eat -
in kitchen and replaced it with a coffee table and
small chairs — that space is now the kids» crafting area.