Sentences with phrase «after an assembly ethics»

In 2013, Micah Z. Kellner, a Democratic assemblyman from Manhattan, was barred from leadership posts, stripped of his interns and forced to cut his staff after an Assembly ethics investigation found that he had sexually harassed aides.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver admonished and severely reprimanded Kellner after an Assembly ethics committee accused him of «unwanted and inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature» toward two female members of his staff.

Not exact matches

Kaminsky, first elected to the Assembly in 2014, ran the Senate campaign on a platform of ethics reform after Skelos was ousted following a corruption conviction in December.

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

The committee found that McLaughlin had engaged in sexual harassment against an Assembly employee, had been untruthful to an ethics committee investigator, and had revealed the name of the complainant against him after being instructed not to discuss the issue.

McLaughlin's final months in the Assembly were dogged by the revelation that he had used abusive language against a female aide, and he was sanctioned by the chamber's ethics committee — after election day — for allegedly asking another lawmaker's aide for nude photos.

Assemblyman Micah Kellner did not seek re-election this year after an ethics committee report found he interacted inappropriately with members of his personal staff during his time in the Assembly.

Cuomo insisted Monday that the commission had served its purpose after the assembly passed a set of ethics laws, and that's why it was discontinued.

Vito Lopez served in the Assembly from 1985 to 2013, when he resigned ahead of a vote of the chamber to expel him after the state ethics commission had released a bombshell report that showed he had routinely sexually harassed young staffers in his office.

Cuomo in February set out to pass what he said would be the most stringent ethics and disclosure measures in the nation — a push that was undertaken after the arrest of now former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on charges of fraud and extortion.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver stripped Kellner of his leadership positions and perks after an ethics panel found that he violated the chamber's sexual harassment policy and created a hostile working environment.

Calls have been mounting for Lopez to give up both his party post and his Assembly seat in the wake of last week's announcement by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that he had censured the veteran lawmaker after a bipartisan ethics committee found he had sexually harassed two female staffers.

Republicans in the New York State Senate are in talks with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about legislative ethics reforms as demands for changes mount after the recent arrest of the former Assembly speaker.

Kolb had said earlier this week — after the Democrat - led Assembly rejected his proposed ethics - law changes — that he would seek to invite the prosecutor to Albany.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

Mr. Lopez, who as the Democratic leader in Brooklyn and chairman of the Assembly's housing committee projected great influence across New York City and the state, resigned in May 2013 after a state ethics commission released a report about his alleged behavior including groping of female staff members and other unwanted sexual advances.

Mr. Silver announced on Aug. 24 that he was censuring Mr. Lopez, 71, after a bipartisan Assembly ethics committee found credible evidence that Mr. Lopez had groped, kissed and verbally harassed two female employees.

The Assembly majority's ethics plan, released after 5 p.m. on Friday, would set a much higher limit on outside income than one suggested by Cuomo, allowing the state's part - time legislators to earn tens of thousands of dollars in addition to their $ 79,500 base salary.

Cuomo, who has said ethics changes are a top priority as he negotiates a budget, said the agreement matches the five principles he sketched out after the arrest and ouster of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver.

Wozniak had an affair with a member of her legislative staff and then retaliated against him after he broke off the affair, an Assembly ethics panel concluded March 9.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie embrace after cutting a deal on ethics reforms in 2015.

Previous ethics investigations were dropped after the Assembly member stepped down, and the Daily News notes that after 32 years of government service, Gabryszak can collect a pension estimated to be worth $ 53,000 a year or more.

After the convictions of the former top legislative leaders in the Assembly and Senate were tossed, ethics reformers fear fighting corruption may be a lost cause.

Four months after Dennis Gabryszak resigned in disgrace following allegations he had sexually harassed female staff members, the Assembly's ethics committee has formally dropped its investigation into the matter.

Lopez was censured by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Friday and stripped of his chairmanship, after a state ethics panel unanimously found that complaints by two employees were credible.

Jane Feldman has gone back to Colorado a sadder and wiser woman after having been cozened into serving as a sham ethics chief for the New York State Assembly.

On ethics reform — a policy area that has proven to be thorny for Cuomo — the governor repurposed several items that were first floated by his office at the end of November as possible elements for a special legislative session that was contemplated but ultimately collapsed after negotiations with leaders of the Senate and Assembly.

Lopez in May 2013 resigned under fire from the Assembly after 28 years after a state ethics report accused him of harassing up to eight former staffers.

New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is facing a possible ethics probe after it was disclosed this week that he steered more than one - hundred - thousand dollars in secret payments to settle sexual harassment charges levied against Democrat Vito Lopez.

«Make no mistake: Over the coming weeks, discussions around proposals on ethics will be a priority of this house,» Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told the chamber as he began his first full session as leader after his installation last February on the heels of Silver's arrest.

NEW YORK CITY — New Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie promised a new era of ethics reform and «accountability» after being elected to replace his disgraced predecessor Sheldon Silver.

Skelos made the comment after a joint budget hearing that set «table targets» — fixed amounts various legislators will be able to allocate in specific program areas — as he repeated his disappointment with with an ethics agreement between the governor and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

Assemblyman Steven T. McLaughlin was disciplined for sexual harassment after an ethics committee determined he had asked an Assembly aide for nude photos.

The second set of proceedings in less than a week come after Governor Andrew Cuomo, among others, called on the ethics panel to investigate a sexual harassment scandal that centered on Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who was censured by an assembly committee over alleged sexual harassment charges.

ALBANY — The state ethics watchdog has forwarded a report of its findings to two legislative panels for possible sanctions after ending its probe of the Assembly's handling of sexual harassment allegations involving a senior member.

Roth will continue to serve on JCOPE, while Jacob will depart after helping the ethics and lobbying watchdog panel complete its search for a new executive director, according to Michael Whyland, the spokesman for Heastie, the new Assembly speaker who made the appointments.

And although we do not generally support stuffing the budget with policy items, it might be smart to put ethics reform there, given the urgency for change after the recent corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The governor shut down the commission in March of this year after the state Assembly passed a set of ethics laws.