Sentences with phrase «appearance of corruption»

There is an obvious appearance of corruption and graft given the relationship between Achievement First and State Commissioner of Education Stepfan Pryor.

Boundaries are necessary tools that help us walk in integrity and live above reproach, to avoid even hinting at the appearance of corruption.

At a 2015 speech at New York Law School, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara decried the appearance of corruption that subverted regulation by the New York State legislature of some participants in the real estate industry.

In a public display of penance for allowing the appearance of corruption to permeate, Vance requested The Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School to investigate ways to better insulate our elected prosecutors

This looks promising on paper: the district contains more Democrats than Repblicans, and polls taken last year in a race for district attorney showed the appearance of corruption was a major issue in voters» minds.

«Indeed, the transactions appear contrary to the intent and spirit of the laws... which are meant to prevent «corruption and the appearance of corruption.»»

Any appearance of corruption in the budget process can result in a cynical public to losing interest in political participation altogether.

The court has not yet eliminated all campaign finance rules because it recognizes that corruption (or even the appearance of corruption) is bad.

I want to focus on the issue of the appearance of corruption and graft that I raised in my original posting.

While a portion of the blame rests with the unprecedented Citizens United decision by the United States Supreme Court, in which companies were determined to be people for the purposes of campaign finance laws, Connecticut's present campaign laws, along with their appearance of corruption, rests on the shoulders of Governor Malloy and the Democrats in the Legislature.

First enacted in the 1970s in the wake of the Watergate scandal, these aggregate contribution limits work to prevent corruption and the appearance of corruption, and were upheld along with individual campaign contribution limits as constitutional in 1976.

But a State's interest in preserving public confidence in the integrity of its judiciary extends beyond its interest in preventing the appearance of corruption in legislative and executive elections.

Concerns about the appearance of corruption in American courts have grown more urgent in recent years as spending on judicial races has exploded.

Although he said in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that independent spending does «not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,» Justice Kennedy authored a ruling in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. that mining company executive Don Blankenship's $ 3 million in independent spending for a West Virginia justice gave rise to an unconstitutional «risk of actual bias» in a lawsuit against the company.

They could not be allowed to take up corporate appointments or law firm partnerships or run for public office; the risk of an appearance of corruption while on the bench would be too great.