Sentences with phrase «avoid appearances of any conflict»

Clinton goes on to appears to question the importance of the divestment of assets that financial executives often undertake to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest when they enter government service.

A tentative deal for $ 500 million fell through because Qatar sought to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest after Jared Kushner was named senior White House adviser, according to Tom Barrack, a Trump friend who had suggested Hamad look at investing with the Kushners.

Many board members have already recused themselves from voting on the deal to avoid appearances of any conflict of interests.

«Kasowitz's initial contribution was returned to avoid the appearance of conflict as DA Vance said [to WNYC], not because there was a conflict,» Joan Vollero, communications direct for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, told IBT over email.

In a statement on Wednesday, the university said that Mr. Kaloyeros's decision was a response to an internal change in how the membership of the two boards is determined, and motivated by an effort to avoid the appearance of a conflict between his role as president and the school real estate efforts.

«We thought it was best to avoid an appearance of a conflict or impropriety,» he said.

Castorina said his decision to resign was out of an abundance of caution to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest.

A spokesperson for Sachs Consulting told the New York Times in 2011 that his health care consulting did not amount to lobbying, but that Sachs had voluntarily frozen all contact with his clients while he worked on the Medicaid Redesign effort, to avoid the appearance of a conflict.

«In order to avoid the appearance of a conflict, the commissioner has recused himself from these matters.»

A Westchester judge will preside over Thursday's arraignments and the case itself, according to sources, to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon asked to be relieved of handling the case to avoid the appearance of a conflict because he was allegedly one of Luthmann's victims.

Some states and Congress forbid elected officials from receiving advance fees for books from publishers, to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest.

While Rogers is an appointee of Borough President Gale Brewer, not of District 2's Council member (currently Rosie Mendez), he told us today he wants to avoid any appearance of conflict.

«To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, Jeff has frozen all contact on behalf of clients with state officials for the duration of the Cuomo administration.»

Fitzpatrick said her allegation was baseless but that he wanted to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Fact # 4: Although Commissioner Esty, the head of Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, had an ethics ruling saying that he did not have any «legal» conflict of interest; he announced that he felt, as commissioner, he had an obligation to meet a higher standard, that being to avoid the appearance of a conflict.

Participation in social networks by judges in the U.S. has reached a level that prompted the Florida judicial ethics committee to issue an edict in 2009 that judges and lawyers should not be Facebook «friends,» to avoid appearance of conflict in the event they end up in the same courtroom.

Writing on Reddit he explains that this was done to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest when promoting LTC as someone with so much social influence.

Not exact matches

Under the ethics rules for federal employees and / or officials, the employees or official is required to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

After they were elected, Ms. Cunningham deregistered as a lobbyist to «avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest and resigned her job at a top lobbying firm.

«In the 21st Century, it is impossible to avoid conflicts — or the appearance of conflicts — if legislators have outside employment,» said Attorney General Schneiderman.

The Empire Center for Public Policy is a nonprofit organization and seeks to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

Donald Trump lamented in a Christmas Eve announcement that he'll have to close down his charitable foundation «to avoid even the appearance of any conflict with my role as president.»

They said that it wasn't that they feared Tirado would abuse his office, but rather that the board wanted to avoid even the appearance of conflict of interest or partisanship.

A close personal adviser to Cuomo in his bid to become state attorney general in 2006 and his run for governor in 2010, she deregistered as a lobbyist in 2010 when Cuomo and her ex-husband, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, were elected, in order «to avoid even the appearance of a conflict» 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.

It is important that fellows adhere to this principle and avoid any conflict of interest or even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

It is the responsibility of AAAS, sponsoring societies, affiliated organizations, and any entity contributing to the fellow's stipend or support to avoid creating conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest with respect to the fellows, in accordance with the hosting agency's ethics rules.

It is the responsibility of AAAS, a fellow, a fellow's sponsoring society, its affiliated organizations, or any entity contributing to a fellow's compensation or support to avoid creating conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest with respect to the fellows, in accordance with House and Senate Ethics Committee rules.

The difficult task of being a hybrid publisher is ensuring that the lines between traditional clients and those who need editing or formatting services do not blur, as to avoid any conflict of interest or appearance of impropriety.

Katherine K. Hanley, the secretary of the commonwealth, wrote University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III on Thursday, asking that Michaels «avoid any conflict of interest or appearance thereof by scrupulously avoiding the use of the title of state climatologist in con - nection with any outside activities or private consulting endeavors.»

In her letter, Hanley asked that Michaels «avoid any conflict of interest or appearance thereof by scrupulously avoiding the use of the title of state climatologist in connection with any outside activities or private consulting endeavors.»

Work for any decent sized company and HR will make you aware of the importance of avoiding even the appearance of conflict of interest, whether one exists or not.

He has declined to represent insurance companies to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Judges must avoid any conflict of interest, or the appearance of any conflict of interest, in the performance of their judicial duties.

But for parents experiencing difficulties working together and following schedules and parenting agreements, a PC serves a number of functions that will hopefully lessen the amount of conflict and avoid multiple court appearances when separated or divorced parents can not work together.

«All doubts will be resolved in a manner to avoid conflict of interest, the appearance of conflict, or self - dealing by any of the parties (e.g., a real estate agent shall never be permitted to claim a sales commission on the sale of his own property or that of an immediate family member....)»

Perhaps HUD's new definition of an «arms - length transaction» should be, «All doubts will be resolved in a manner to avoid conflict of interest, the appearance of conflict, or self - dealing by any of the parties so long as the party is not a large corporate real estate broker or a safeguard service affiliated with a real estate broker.»