Sentences with phrase «as the inspector general»

In addition to his work as the inspector general of Yonkers, Schorr has served as a Westchester County assistant district attorney.

Mangano said the investigations commissioner would fill much the same role as an inspector general.

He left in 2008 as the inspector general was investigating claims that he was pressuring the State Liquor Authority into approving licenses for a restaurant owner.

The agency that acts as an inspector general for many other arms of the city government, but it historically hasn't kept tabs on the NYPD.

Even if student mentors are not counted as instructors — as the inspector general claims — students interact in regular and substantive ways with course instructors.

The United Federation of Teachers subsequently commissioned an independent investigation of Stancik's allegations by private investigator Thomas Thacher, who previously served as inspector general of the School Construction Authority.

As the inspector general of Oregon's prison system from 1990 - 1995, I was given the responsibility for investigating allegations of wrongdoing in the department, including some of the conspiracy theories that arose after the Francke murder.

Not exact matches

Assistant inspector general Robert Seabrooks noted dryly in a memo: «As the protector of small - business interests, SBA should be taking the lead in ensuring that businesses that are legitimately small are receiving government contracts.»

But he was apparently removed as part of a broader investigation into the bureau's handling of the Clinton email probe by the DOJ's inspector general.

Later, it was reported that the inspector general tried to suppress details of that cooperation, as revealed by the Project on Government Oversight.

When Kuepfer initially reckoned he could find new uses for all the waste vinyl at Canadian General Tower, where he was working as an inspector, the company's waste - management manager was only too happy to give him the material for free.

The OIG's assertion that it would review the FBI's and DOJ's «relationship and communications» with Steele as they relate to the Page FISA application indicates the inspector general will examine the circumstances surrounding Steele's termination as a source and the FBI's reliance on his findings even after he was let go.

For example, Mary Barra started out as a quality inspector on the General Motors (GM) assembly line before going on to become the company's first female CEO, and she says her time on the line helped her really value the people who did that role for the company.

Simply doing nothing remains an option for Trump as well, in part because of anticipated events like the release of a report from the Justice Department's inspector general.

Since his appointment, the inspector general's report claimed that Kmiec has «devoted considerable time to writing articles for publication in the United States as well as in Malta,» given his belief that he had a «special mandate» to promote Obama's interfaith initiatives.

A 2001 review by the HUD inspector general's office found that as many as one in four of the 3,824 program participants nationwide had broken the rules.

As the law currently stands, neither the attorney general's office nor the inspector general's office have the authority to independently launch investigations into Albany lawmakers.

Cuomo did, however, focus on a few things that haven't been a major part of past speeches, such as term limits and his idea to have new inspectors general take on the auditing powers traditionally held by the state comptroller at SUNY and CUNY.

«My background both in the private sector and as a sex crimes prosecutor and inspector general makes me uniquely qualified to deliver on the real reforms we desperately need in Albany.

UNION SQUARE — Mayor Michael Bloomberg strongly opposes installing a new inspector general to oversee the NYPD, saying the move would jeopardize public safety — but that hasn't changed who will get his vote to succeed him as mayor.

But it was former comptroller Bill Thompson — the only African American candidate in the race — who suffered the most criticism from de Blasio and his supporters over his stance on the profiling ban, as well as the council measure to impose an inspector general on the police department.

Represented at the occasion by the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Dibal Yakadi, the inspector - general described police job as one of the best jobs in the world.

Gov. Cuomo's office cast the legislation as unduly burdensome and ineffective for preventing future criminal activity, instead supporting new or expanded roles for the state inspector general's office and the appointment of the aforesaid chief procurement officer.

JCOPE's former executive director, Ellen Biben, served in Cuomo's attorney general office before being named by him as state inspector general.

But some of her campaign promises — such as increased transparency, the appointment of an inspector general and other ethics reforms that have been rejected previously by the current town board — could be difficult to fulfill when she takes office.

King Sweeney abstained from voting on seven of the nine contracts as part of her ongoing protest of the expenditure of town money while the town lacks an inspector general.

He declined, however, to say whether he would be willing to stay on as police commissioner under a mayor who appointed an inspector general.

O'Hara, who has since been hired by the state to a $ 110,000 job as deputy director with the state's Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, was criticized by the state inspector general's office on Feb. 14, 2013 for showing favoritism to a vendor in the awarding of a contract to manage the Empire Room banquet hall at the state fair.

Eleven of the 14 JCOPE commissioners voters in favor of Biben, a former federal prosecutor who worked in Cuomo's AG office and now serves as state inspector general.

A resolution formally opposing the proposed New York inspector general could be voted on as early as Monday in the Senate, he said.

State Republicans see Killian as a strong candidate who could possibly flip the seat, but she still faces another Republican, former Yonkers inspector general Dan Schorr.

Cuomo has proposed new administrative controls over the non-profit entities at the State University of New York that oversee economic development efforts, as well as the creation of a chief procurement officer to monitor state contracts, as well as enhanced powers for the inspector general.

At the same time, the Judiciary Committee back the nominations of ex-Cuomo administration officials David Sampson, a former deputy commission at the Department of Motor Vehicles as well as that of Ellen Biben, a former state inspector general.

It was an abrupt kibosh on negotiations that concluded Friday with a framework for a legislative package that was said by sources to have included public financing of judicial campaigns, new Cuomo - appointed inspectors general at public universities as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Leahy Scott previously served as first deputy inspector general.

And that's what I think the system needs: inspector generals, special prosecutors... [A] nd if you try to treat it as an audit problem, that means you're avoiding what it really is, which is a problem of fraud and criminality.

In a March 2 letter to Abrahams, Mangano said an inspector general is unnecessary because it would have the «same investigative authority» as the county commissioner of investigations, a position Foskey holds.

Killian was selected as the Republican nominee over former Yonkers inspector general Dan Schorr at a nomination convention held on February 7.

In addition to the inspector general bill, the package includes a bill that would force officers identify themselves and explain the reason for any stop or search and provide a written record of their interaction, as well as explicitly tell people who are stopped that they have a right to object.

«The new inspector general functions would be purely additive: on top of all existing offices such as the attorney general and state comptroller.

But news of the additional reform measures emerged as good - government advocacy groups blasted other gubernatorial proposals to create Cuomo - appointed inspectors general overseeing state agencies, the SUNY and CUNY systems, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the State Education Department.

The state inspector general's office is now investigating CUNY's contract with Siegelvision as part of its sweeping probe of the university's questionable spending, including through its various not - for - profit foundations.

Martins also argues instead of creating an independent inspector general's office, with multiple employees — as Democrats have called for — Nassau should give the existing county commissioner of investigations and the procurement director more power to conduct independent investigations.

Patricia Gunning, who recently resigned as the special prosecutor / inspector general of the NYS Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, said her onetime boss, Jay Kiyonaga, engaged in harassment and other misconduct, which she reported, but her complaint about him was «swept... right under the rug.»

Schorr is well known around the county, previously serving as a prosecutor in Westchester and New York City and as the Yonkers inspector general.

«With the first two months of the PDP administration in 1999 a speaker of the house of assembly was removed just for age falsification, various senate presidents were impeached, governors were impeached as well as a serving inspector general of police,» he said.

The Cuomo administration has set April 24 as the date for the special election, in which state Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Democrat, is vying for the Senate's 37th District seat against either Dan Schorr, a former prosecutor in Westchester and New York City and previous Yonkers inspector general, or Sarmad Khojasteh, a commercial litigation attorney from the town of Bedford, both Republicans.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- City lawmakers reached a deal Tuesday to install an inspector general to monitor the New York Police Department, a plan galvanized by outrage over its extensive use of the tactic known as stop and frisk and its widespread spying on Muslims.

The back and forth came as Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn, whose agency would have to provide the inspector general, wrote a letter to Quinn «questioning the draft legislation as unworkable for DOI, and its implementation at the NYPD as potentially problematic,» DOI Director of Communications Diane Struzzi later clarfied.

Patricia Gunning, who recently resigned as the special prosecutor / inspector general of the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, said she decided to go public after Cuomo Chief of Staff Melissa DeRosa last week recounted her personal bouts of being subjected to sexism.