Sentences with phrase «about one's outside income»

He has been under nearly constant fire for his handling of sexual harassment complaints within the 150 - member chamber and for years has faced questions about his outside income.
But they and their colleagues can still keep secrets about their outside income.
Silver may also have violated state laws for failing to report accurately about his outside income and it's sources.
Throwing cold water on the idea is likely the state ethics law that past last year come into effect, lawmakers will have divulge more information about their outside income and the work they do in the private sector.
SILVER also repeatedly made false statements about his outside income in his public statements, including the following:
«If you want to talk about outside income, what doe that mean?
Now, as governor, Cuomo is trying to pass an ethics overhaul measure that may require legislators to reveal more details about their outside income and clients who do business with the state.
So, I ask, why would Cuomo's requiring a little more specificity about outside income change the behavior of a legislators willing to go waaay beyond committing an ethics violation and commit a CRIME?
The verdict was a quick and unceremonious end for Mr. Silver, who, during his more than two decades as the State Assembly speaker, displayed a Teflon - like quality in deflecting questions about his outside income as well as calls for his ouster.
In one tweet, the government said, «Bharara: Silver monetized his position as Speaker of the Assembly in two principal ways & misled the public about his outside income
The move left many concerned that the lax ethical rules about outside income and campaign finance that ensnared Silver will remain in place.
«It makes it harder to prosecute the bad apples when every apple is able to be nontransparent about that outside income,» Mr. Bharara said.
Cuomo said he does not know if his anti-corruption Moreland Commission has uncovered any possible illegal activities by state lawmakers, but feels legislators are making a mistake if they challenge the commission's decision to subpoena information about outside income.
State Democrats stepped up their calls on Monday for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino to release five years worth of tax returns, saying in an open memo to reporters there are «unanswered questions about his outside income
The governor has threatened to investigate the Legislature through a Moreland Commission if lawmakers do not pass an ethics overhaul, which most likely will force legislators to reveal more information about their outside income and attorney clients.
Cuomo made it a major plank of his successful 2010 campaign and though he has signed laws to require legislators to disclose more about their outside incomes and stiffened ethics penalties, critics say the governor and lawmakers haven't addressed the cornerstone issues such as the state's weak campaign - finance laws.
Antonacci says no one has bothered him about this outside income in the ten years he's been comptroller, until he sued the county over elected officials pay raises two years ago.
A bill passed earlier this year will make lawmakers disclose more about their outside income, though the rule contains large exemptions.
A legislative ethics commission has sent a notice of delinquency to former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver demanding more information about his outside income.
Feds argue in Silver's indictment that he tried to block Cuomo's corruption commission — the Moreland Commission — from obtaining information about his outside income.
Flanagan also argued that the Legislature, in recent years, had already made «major, sweeping» changes in ethics laws, requiring lawmakers to disclose more information about their outside income.
The former speaker also prevented the disclosure of information about his outside income to the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.
Silver fought tooth and nail against the commission's effort to subpoena information about his outside income.
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