Sentences with phrase «public integrity commission»

Public integrity commission charges Paterson over Yankee tickets [NYP] Gov Slapped With Ethics Charge» [Daily Politics / NYDN]

Six months after he gave that speech, campaign finance reform is stalled and a new public integrity commission he has championed is seen as flawed by watchdog groups.

Gov. David A. Paterson called on every member of the state's public integrity commission to resign on Wednesday in the wake of a damaging report about the commission's handling of an investigation into his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer.

Not exact matches

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District Attorney Soares must now act to force - feed integrity into the Public Integrity Commission as only a grand jury can, made up as it is of everyday New Yorkers!

On May 4, the commission found that McCullough failed «to act in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.»

Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said.

«During the campaign, I made a commitment that we would either pass real ethics reform with real disclosure and real enforcement or I would form a Moreland Commission on public integrity,» the governor cotinued.

According to him, the largest share of responsibility for nurturing, sustaining and continuously deepening Nigeria's electoral process rests on the Commission, as a result of which it must take the lead in demonstrating to the general public and all staff, that the integrity of the electoral processes is the defining moment for credible electoral outcomes.

«The guidelines range is high because the United States Sentencing Commission explicitly has recognized the «threat to the integrity of democratic processes» caused by public corruption offenses,» the feds wrote.

ALBANY — When announcing the formal creation of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics in late 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the new entity would use its «robust enforcement powers» to «aggressively investigate corruption and help maintain integrity in state government.»

«There can be no question that a full ethics investigation into this improper exertion of state legislative influence by Senator Libous is required, either by virtue of this complaint or on the Commission's own initiative, in order to hold the state senator fully accountable to the standards of ethical conduct and public integrity state law requires of all members of the legislature.»

This results in a conflicted approach to public integrity measures, explaining why Cuomo is poised to sign off on a new budget that only superficially beefs up powers to police public corruption or install public financing of elections — while agreeing to dismantle the Moreland Commission he ostensibly created to overcome legislative resistance to cleaning up Albany.

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

«I respect the independence and integrity of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and honor its decision to name Ellen Biben as its new executive director.

«The Joint Commission on Public Ethics is an independent monitor that will aggressively investigate corruption and help maintain integrity in state government,» Governor Cuomo said.

«The Joint Commission on Public Ethics is an independent monitor that will aggressively investigate corruption and help maintain integrity in state government,» Cuomo said.

«The Joint Commission on Public Ethics is an independent monitor that will aggressively investigate corruption and help maintain integrity in state government,» the governor said.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said Wednesday.

The commission promotes «integrity by requiring members, officials and employees of Albany County to be independent, impartial and free from conflicts of interest in fulfilling their public responsibilities.

Lets see: nominating a Superintendent that is beholden to him after his 2007 report on interference in the State Police called for an independent Super; elevating his person to Chair the commission on public integrity, and now another confidant as IG.

In its report, the 2006 quadrennial advisory commission suggested «limiting the ability of government officials to raise their own salaries and receive them immediately would improve the integrity of the government and public confidence in it.»

And so last July, Cuomo convened a news conference with the two dozen members of his newborn Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, a group made up disproportionately of district attorneys, plus a handful of reform advocates who had put in years of work on ways to boost official integrity.

Opponents of court reform have targeted ethical rules aimed at promoting the integrity and independence of the judiciary; public financing for judicial elections; and the use of nonpartisan merit commissions to screen judicial nominees.

«public started negotiating our commission» — they have a right to, as do Realtors, «our industry lost respect and integrity» — how much has our industry really ever had?