Sentences with phrase «jcope state ethics commission»

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The scandal resulted in multiple probes conducted by the AG, the IG, the Albany County DA and the state ethics board, the Commission on Public Integrity (the precursor to JCOPE).

JCOPE spokesman Walter McClure said it was «routine for JCOPE staff and the executive director to speak with executive and legislative officials, ethics officers and counsels and others from state agencies, and lobbyists and their clients as part of the commission's mandate to provide ethics guidance.»

A slew of prominent communications firms may be forced to register as lobbyists under a proposal by the state ethics commission, JCOPE.

She says her group, which has already filed a complaint with the IRS and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman about ALEC, is now asking the state's ethic commission, JCOPE, to look into it.

Krebs said the other elements of the job as described to him by JCOPE officials included educating state officials on ethics and eliminating «duplicate filings» with the legislature's ethics board and the New York City lobbying commission.

The 2011 law that created the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) to be the top ethics watchdog in the state contained a proviso that the body would be periodically reviewed to find ways to improve its functioning.

According to New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethic (JCOPE), «No State resources of any type may be used in furtherance of activities, including, but not limited to, telephones, office supplies, postage, photocopying machines, computers and support staff.

JCOPE members convene for a state ethics commission meeting Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).

Also, the state's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE), is controlled by individuals who are directly appointed by the governor and the legislative leaders.