Recent Accomplishments

• Cordo & Co ranked 8th on Business Review’s Annual Lobby List
  
  Click here for the Business Review 2013 Lobby List.PDF
  Gold, Melissa. “The List: Lobbying Firms (Ranked by 2012 compensation).” The Business Review [Albany] 10-16 May 2013: 24. Print.

• John Cordo named to Albany Power 100 List
  
  Click here for more details.
  Albany Power 100 List.” City & State NY 22 Apr. 2013: 11. Print.

• New York Times-Simple but Local, Queens Slots Are Hurting Gambling Meccas
  
  A casino that opened a year ago at the fading Aqueduct horse racing track in Queens has emerged as the country’s highest-grossing slot parlor, helping to reshape the gambling landscape in the Northeast as patrons chose less opulent, more local casinos instead of traditional gambling meccas in Atlantic City and Connecticut. >read more

• Albany Bill on Organ Donation Urges License Applicants to Act
  
  June 20th 2012
  The New York State Legislature passed a measure on Wednesday aimed at increasing the low number of organ donors in the state by encouraging driver’s license applicants to make an active choice about their donation status. If the bill is signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, New York will become the second state, along with California, to make such a change in its donor registration process.
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• State to Construction Industry: Now is the time to “Play Fair” with your workers
  
  Employers who Violate this New Law Face Stiff Penalties
  
  Albany, NY (October 26, 2010) –
  On a construction site close to the RIT campus, 12 of 21 contractors claimed that they had 211 employees who were really independent contractors. By misclassifying those workers, these employers illegally avoided paying more than $80,000 in unemployment insurance taxes. A painting contractor on the site had over 50 workers painting walls on the project side-by-side and classified each worker wrongly as an independent contractor. >read more