Sentences with phrase «bipartisan ethics committee»

Assemblyman Vito Lopez's office just sent out the following statement from the embattled Brooklyn lawmaker, who was censured and stripped of his staff and seniority last week after a bipartisan ethics committee determined he had sexually harassed two female staffers:

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.

Calls are mounting for Assemblyman / Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez to resign following his censure last week by Speaker Sheldon Silver after a bipartisan ethics committee determined he had sexually harassed two young female staffers.

Not exact matches

This will be the speaker's first public appearance since he abruptly announced Lopez had been censured and stripped of his seniority after the bipartisan legislative ethics committee found the Brooklyn Democrat had made unwanted verbal and physical advances toward several young female staffers.

The new committee, which he will chair, advocates for bipartisan change in New York politics, including ethics and budget reform and job creation.

Here's the supporting documentation Rep. Charlie Rangel's team is preparing in hopes of convincing his House colleagues to reduce his punishment for being found guilty on 11 ethics charges from censure, as was recommended by a 10 - person bipartisan committee, to reprimand.

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.

She also suggested that mailings of more than 100 «substantially identical pieces» be preapproved by the ethics board or a bipartisan legislative committee.

«The Assembly has zero tolerance for sexual harassment, discrimination or retaliation,» Aravella Simotas, the chair of the Assembly's bipartisan committee on ethics and guidance, said in an emailed statement.