Sentences with phrase «empowering local district attorneys»
They include a variety of topics including campaign finance reform, public financing of campaigns, and empowering local district attorneys to prosecute corruption and ethics noncompliance.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.
«It is well past time that our state legislature enact real anti-corruption measures and empower local district attorney offices to bring corruption cases.
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Dennis C. Vacco, a former state attorney general, said that state law empowers a governor to appoint a special prosecutor at their discretion when there may be a potential conflict of interest involving a local district attorney.