Sentences with phrase «act ethics commission»

US Attorney Preet Bharara was investigating the governor's closure of a Moreland Act ethics commission, and whether he or any of his staff improperly interfered with any of it's investigations.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who like the Legislature can appoint members to the commission, has suggested lawmakers should act on broader ethics reforms before receiving the pay increase and also «make their case» on why a salary increase is deserved.

Nixon went on to critique the governor's record on ethics, saying he closed down a Moreland Act Commission that was actively investigating corruption in state government, and earlier this month saw his former closest aide convicted of bribery.

Cuomo created the ethics commission under the state's Moreland Act a little over a year ago amidst rampant corruption rampant in the legislature, that included a string of indictments, resignations and jailings of lawmakers.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

This is, of course, a big win for Cuomo, who made cleaning up Albany a hallmark of his 2010 campaign and has been threatening legislators with a Moreland Act commission is they didn't agree to ethics reform.

The ethics package that produced the pilot public campaign finance program for the state comptroller race also included the shuttering of Governor Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, which was in the midst of probing possible corruption cases.

Cuomo has signaled he'll name a powerful Moreland Act Commission with sweeping subpoena authority to investigate the Legislature if an accord on ethics reform is not reached.

After the Times reported that Cuomo's aides tried to meddle in on going ethics probes and get Moreland Act commissioners to rescind subpoenas that were issued to campaign donors and Cuomo associates, several commissioners simultaneously issued statements insisting that the commission was independent and that they were not coerced.

Governor Cuomo confirms that the US Attorney, Preet Bharara, sent a warning letter to the lawyer representing the now disbanded Moreland Act Commission on ethics, as first reported in the New York Times.

Meanwhile, the chair of the State's Republican Party, Ed Cox, says Governor Cuomo's anti corruption Moreland Act Commission should investigate Duffy for a «possible violation of state ethic laws».

Cuomo is planning to begin a Moreland Act Commission to investigate campaign finance violations at the state Board of Elections if lawmakers do not approve an ethics package.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has put creation of a Moreland Act Commission on the fast track since the Legislature declined to pass his ethics and campaign finance reform package.

The Commission is just another bully pulpit for the Governor to talk but not act on ethics and campaign finance reform in the state legislature — something he was not up to the task of pushing through during his first three years in office.

Good - government groups hope it will spur Cuomo and the state legislature to act on ethics reforms, including public financing of campaigns and strengthening official watchdogs, like the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Cuomo has said he agreed to end his Moreland Act Commission in a fair exchange for a new ethics law.

When Governor Cuomo unceremoniously pulled the plug on the Moreland Act Commission Investigating Public Corruption as part of a deal with legislative leaders in exchange for weak ethics reforms, even the most optimistic New Yorkers were left depressed.

A spokesman for Silver released a statement pointing out that the ethics commission found that all of the Assembly's actions were «lawful», and says they operated under a «good faith belief» that they were acting in the interests of the victims.

Maybe it would be better to bypass the ethics legislation and go directly to the Moreland Act like Commission.

Cuomo is under increasing pressure to act on ethics as he shuttered the Moreland Commission that was investigating legislative misconduct in a 2014 deal with Silver and Skelos — a deal that greatly angered Bharara and appears to have sparked a federal investigation.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.

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