Sentences with phrase «also in a conflict of interest»

Not exact matches

While President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington did serve as a hub of inaugural activities it also stands as ground zero for what top Democrats and some ethics advisers see as his unique web of conflicts of interest.

But while President Donald Trump's hotel in Washington did serve as a hub of Friday's inaugural activities, it also stands as ground zero for what top Democrats and some ethics advisers see as his unique web of conflicts of interest.

Plank also promised in the letter that Under Armour will take «other public positions on legislation around the country in support of the interests of our teammates whenever policy conflicts with human rights.»

The tower has been at the center of potential conflicts of interest involving Kushner, who is also Trump's son - in - law.

Hoffman also stressed that transparency is important in a presidential candidate so that voters can be made aware of his conflicts of interest, his state of public affairs, and his charitable giving.

In June, the company also announced plans to acquire SolarCity, the solar energy company backed by Musk and his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive, but the deal was questioned by investors over fears of cash burns and conflict of interest.

There's also the pattern of conflicts of interest and efforts to cash in on the presidency, and whatever other investigations are finding about his business activities before the presidency.

«We are seeing that our focus on the middle class, by putting more money in the pockets of hard working families, and giving less advantages to the wealthiest, is growing the economy,» Trudeau said, as he also attempted to distract the media horde from his finance minister's loose interpretation of what constitutes a conflict of interest.

For example, a conflict of interest may arise when a Senior Officer or Director is also an executive officer, a major shareholder or has a material interest in an organization doing business with the Company.

According to Bullard, «the DOL has laid out in detail written documentation examples of material conflicts of interest and the firm's program for mitigating them, which is a virtual roadmap — and also an evidentiary motherlode for bringing both arbitration claims and class actions against firms.»

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

The book, also, is a product of its time, when researchers are more interested in sexual attitudes and social conflicts than they are in literary meaning and metaphysical faiths.

It claims some missteps (Samuel's push for price signalling bans on banking chiefs and his readiness to accept «the wholesale monopoly» of the NBN), highlights some controversy (including the claims of conflict of interest regarding the DFO and the ACCC's pursuit of Richard Pratt) but concludes that overall «Mr Samuel's energy and focus have resulted in an expansion of the size and the powers of the ACCC, which has also developed a clearer pro-market approach than it had under his predecessor, Alan Fels»

In a separate statement, Furnival said he had resigned to avoid the «political distraction» of the «smear campaign» against him, but also insisted there had been no conflict of interest.

Presumably, he would also be interested in avoiding a conflict of dates between Garden State and the harness track.

I also understand that I must disclose any of my outside interests that may be in conflict or competition with the interests of the Foundation or that stand to benefit from my involvement therewith, and then refrain from participating in any discussions pertaining to those conflicts.

His investigation continues, and he expects more claims to be brought against other food service providers over rebates that not only create «an inherent conflict of interest» in the choice of foods children are served at school, but also discourage the use of locally produced goods from smaller suppliers, including local farmers.

This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child feeding.

I have also, with the help of many NGOs, MPs, Policy makers and citizens, helped bring in EU and UK legislation on the marketing products fed to babies and improved transparency and conflicts of interest safeguards.

Resolution WHA65.6 also requested the Director - General to: «develop risk assessment, disclosure and management tools to safeguard against possible conflicts of interest in policy development and implementation of nutrition programmes consistent with WHO's overall policy and practice».

He is also interested in the impact of international organisations in the management and resolution of civil conflicts and also in the political and economic transitions of former communist states.

They also raised questions about a potential conflict of interest in the role of the home secretary, who is the respondent to the appeal but also has the power of imposing the disadvantageous timescale on the person launching it.

The board is also to vote to hire a Babylon investigative firm LMGI Ltd. to investigate and conduct surveillance in the town and the town attorney's office when the town attorney's investigators face a conflict of interest, according to the meeting's agenda and town officials.

Sept. 17: After Garry had written Mei that Harris Beach also represented Singh and SRB on other matters, Mei wrote: «This letter shall serve to acknowledge your firm's representation of Singh Hospitality Group and to waive any actual or potential conflict of interest in connection with said representation.»

Tedisco also became the first Capital Region lawmaker to sign the «Clean Conscience Pledge» (photo attached) sponsored by Common Cause NY to support real ethics reform that includes closing the LLC Loophole for campaign finance reform, full disclosure in how legislative leaders spend tax dollars, and limiting outside income for legislators to reduce conflicts of interest.

Torres and his allies also noted that CCRB is an independent agency and claimed that the Law Department's representation of CCRB raises conflict of interest concerns, given that the Law Department also represents the NYPD and officers in lawsuits.

CHRAJ also established that the President was not culpable of conflict of interest, bribery or fraud in relation to the manner in which the vehicle was given to him.

In the letter, the unnamed authors gripe that they had also reached out to the Conflict of Interest Board and the Department of Investigation.

This also adds to a growing list of conflicts of interest situations in which the Finance Minister seems to be entangled - the USD 2.25 billion bond, as well as the appointment of close relatives and his business associates to key positions at the Finance Ministry, the Bank of Ghana and a number of other state institutions.

«The fundamental corrupter is the inherent conflict of interest in the fact that you are an Assembly person or a senator and you're also a private business person,» Cuomo said.

Mr. Feerick, who is dean of the Fordham Law School, also lobbied for an ethics law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the disclosure provisions of state election law.

Cuomo's office is also under investigation, with a top aide being probed for potential conflicts of interest in connection with Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» economic program.

Bharara also is investigating Cuomo's office, looking into potential conflicts of interest and improper bidding in a signature state economic development program in Buffalo.

«And that's not just New York, it's a problem all across the country and it's a problem in reality and it's a problem in perception and if it's a problem only in perception, it is still a real problem because people have to trust the justice system and the trust has to go both ways,» Cuomo said, speaking about police and community, but also referring to the oft - cited conflict of interest around police and prosecutors who regularly work together but can then be at odds when an officer is suspected of a crime.

The legislature also approved a measure requiring lawmakers who earn over $ 5,000 per year in outside income to seek a ruling from the independent Legislative Ethics Commission to clear them of possible conflicts of interest.

Schneiderman also said local district attorneys who would prefer to recuse themselves in such cases, so as to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, can not currently do so.

Critics are of the view that; the $ 100,000 dollar Ford vehicle gift presented to President Mahama in 2012, when he was Vice President, amounts to conflict of interest, and that he must be impeached since the contractor, Djibril Kanazoe, is also said to have been awarded some lucrative government contracts.

The Conflicts of Interest Board also issued a general advisory in 2012 after receiving numerous questions from elected officials on how they and their subordinates may engage in political activity.

Also of major interest, the team notes, is that the sudden collapse of the nearby Guge kingdom of western Tibet (ruins shown) around 1620 C.E. — which had previously been ascribed to military conflicts — occurred near the end of the region's driest 3 decades in the past 5700 years.

Universities are particularly sensitive to university space, resources and / or faculty being involved in outside activities during their working hours, and also for potential conflicts of interest, in which your university research could be biased by receiving outside funding from an inappropriate source, as when a drug company has a vested interest in the outcome of your independent research.

Hiring students also brings about the potential for conflict of interest from the university's perspective, which I will explore in depth in the next article in this series.

The study authors stress that documenting a conflict of interest is not in itself sufficient: it must also lead to consequences.

He also said that WHO has long - standing conflict - of - interest practices that prevent manufacturers from weighing in on policy decisions.

Two formal complaints were also lodged with Berkeley, between them alleging that Duesberg had made false claims in the paper and accusing him of failing to declare Rasnick's alleged conflict of interest.

But Fitzgerald also purchased shares in pharma giants Merck and Bayer after taking over the CDC — an apparent conflict of interest that also confounded government ethics experts.

May it serve as a warning not only to policymakers, but also to researchers, clinicians, peer reviewers, journal editors, and journalists of the need to consider the harm to scientific credibility and public health when dealing with studies funded by food companies with vested interests in the results — and to find better ways to fund such studies and to prevent, disclose and manage potentially conflicted interests,» writes Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., of New York University, in a related commentary.

They also say stronger «public interest» protections are urgently needed: stricter conflict of interest rules in both academia and the government, and prohibitions against commercial ghostwriting and corporate control of statistical analysis and raw data.

Lawmakers must do so only if the legislation also includes specific provisions requiring much more transparency in how management and grant decisions are made and a much less blithe attitude about conflicts of interest.

There is a real conflict of interest here, because the success of the business depends in part on having lots of users, and also in large part on the publicly perceived success of those users.

So I'm really interested in conflict resolution, ways to avoid violence, to avoid bullying, ways to develop healthy romantic but also family and friendship relationships — those are the kinds of narratives that jump out to me.»