He accompanied his lobbying client, Christopher B. Burke, to a meeting with the Tollway Authority — the target of his lobbying activities — while also representing the village, records show.
The C.E.O. of the timber giant Georgia-Pacific (a former lobbying client) offered his firm's services to help salvage storm-damaged timber.
In Rosemont in the past year, Mr. Dorgan, a prominent Republican, played a key role as village trustee in awarding a $2.4 million contract to his lobbying client, Christopher B. Burke Engineering.
The review found more than a dozen instances in which an official took action that benefited the lobbying client of a family member or business partner.
His first and biggest lobbying client was a division of Westinghouse, which hired him to seek federal money for an experimental nuclear reactor on the Clinch River in Tennessee.
The group, along with an affiliated organization, Vocal-N.Y., filed a complaint with the state ethics commission in March arguing that the Committee to Save New York should register Mr. Cuomo as its lobbying client.
If so, the institute would have been required by law to register with the commission as a lobbyist and a lobbying client and report its expenses, which it did not.
One committee member, Representative Michael P. Lawlor, a Democrat from East Haven, asked her whether the governor might have tried to help a businessman, Robert V. Matthews, attract an out-of-state business as a lobbying client with a potential fee of at least $2.7 million.
To cover up these poor judgments now — and questionable actions, including his public boosting of Ahmad Chalabi, then a lobbying client of the current McCain campaign guru, Charles Black — Mr. McCain is hoping that the "liberal media" will once again be complicit enablers.
