Sentences with phrase «by ethics officials»

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«Repeated failures by your White House colleague, Jared Kushner, and former employer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to properly disclose their meetings and contacts with Russian officials have only increased the need for vigorous oversight into ethics and security disclosures by other senior officials in this Administration,» they said.

Shulkin told ethics officials the tennis tickets were provided by a personal friend, Victoria Gosling, an adviser for the Invictus Games, a sporting event for wounded warriors.

The Air Force said headquarters officials were not aware of the religious component of the ethics course, despite it being taught for nearly two decades by chaplains.

In addition to clashes over liberation theology, Vatican authorities have continued to uphold official teaching on sexual ethics in general (as in a 1986 statement on homosexuality by Cardinal Ratzinger) and have withstood calls even for an open discussion of women's ordination or of ending celibacy as a requirement for the priesthood.

By January of 1985 it was evident that reprisals against the lay signers were beginning as well — particularly against Daniel Maguire, professor of ethics at Marquette University, the male signer generally regarded as holding something close to official status as a Catholic theologian.

«On May 24 2011, Fifa executive committee member and Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer reported to Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke possible violations of the Fifa code of ethics allegedly committed by officials,» a Fifa statement read.

European football's control, ethics and disciplinary body acknowledged that the allegation was made in good faith by the 17 - year - old but, after a number of extensive interviews with players and match officials, it came down to Brewster's word against that of Spartak captain Leonid Mironov.

A former Spanish translator at the NYC Department of Education has been slapped with a $ 20,000 fine for what officials described as one of the biggest time thefts ever prosecuted by the city's ethics board.

Those lobbying state and local government spent a record $ 226 million in 2014 trying to influence public officials, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the state's ethics and lobbying regulations.

Unfortunately, the Grand Jury accepted the politically charged testimony of this legislator and claimed «Financial Disclosure forms were used by a county official in a failed attempt to end the legislature's investigation into the ethics commission.»

Strengthening Party ethics to disallow public officials who have been convicted of public malfeasance from being supported by the Party; and 3.

A state senator from Buffalo who announced he would not seek re-election is the subject of an inquiry by state ethics officials amid lurid allegations including sexual harassment, according to a report.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

Both former officials, who were ousted in a contentious 2015 election, were found guilty of internal charges of dereliction of duty and violating the union's ethics rules when they allegedly stymied efforts to uncover thousands of dollars of improper purchases by Deborah J. Lee, who had been the leader of a PEF council in Rockland County.

Wu says while a grand jury will have to determine whether any actual crimes were committed, he says alleged interference by Cuomo's staff in an ethics commission sending out subpoenas is potentially in violation of several state statutes, including conspiracy to perform official misconduct and the hindering of prosecution.

Among his recommendations, Astorino favors switching elected officials from the defined - benefit pension plan to a defined - contribution plan; replacing the per diem system for lawmaker expenses to one requiring stricter bookkeeping; and scrapping the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics in favor of a new independent ethics watchdog appointed by the judiciary.

JCOPE, by contrast, has been the vulture of ethics enforcement; its condemnations of elected officials have been limited to those who have been made pariahs as a result of investigations by others.

Republican Assemblyman Dan Stec calls Albany's failure to act on ethics reform and heroin addiction a «self - inflicted crisis» by state officials.

However, it's unclear if the latest corruption news — including the FBI raid of Queens Assemblyman Bill Scarborough and the reported investigation into a land purchase by Senator Kathy Marchione — will spur officials to include ethics in the budget.

Assembly Democrats on Friday evening released a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures including limits to outside income, while holding out for negotiations for a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by public officials convicted of corruption.

Federal officials have opened an investigation into activities by senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway following a complaint that she violated ethics laws when she slammed Democrat Doug Jones — who is battling Republican Roy Moore to become Alabama's next U.S. senator — on national TV.

On Wednesday the House Committee on Ethics released a 177 page report saying they have «sustainable reason to believe» that Bishop may have broken ethics rules by soliciting campaign donations in exchange for official actions.

A government ethics reform bill, jointly passed by the state Legislature Monday for a second time, amends the state constitution and allows the state to reduce or revoke the pension of a public officer that has been convicted of a crime related to his or her official duties.

After running on a platform of ethics reform, he has introduced bills to prevent elected officials from «double dipping» by collecting retirement while still in office and increasing a legislator's term from two to four years.

Santino included an amendment Tuesday, which also passed by a 4 - 3 vote to allow elected officials who exceeded the income cap to file for an exception from the town's ethics board, by giving a full disclosure of all their clients.

Dutchess County officials also called for Treanor to leave, saying the county could not continue to support a project led by someone of «questionable character and ethics.»

To restore the public trust in public service, he's leading the effort to bring ethics reform to Albany by helping to pass a constitutional amendment stripping officials convicted of a felony of their taxpayer - funded retirement and instituting term limits on legislative leadership position, ensuring no one can accumulate entrenched power and use it to his or her advantage.

A law approved in 2011 aimed at requiring more disclosure for state officials who earn outside income from lobbying entities to appears to be rarely enforced by state ethics regulators.

Krebs said the other elements of the job as described to him by JCOPE officials included educating state officials on ethics and eliminating «duplicate filings» with the legislature's ethics board and the New York City lobbying commission.

Legal advice on ethics issues was given to him while he was employed outside of government by an Administration official.

JCOPE — set up by Gov. Cuomo in 2011 to «restore public trust» by making sure officials follow state ethics rules — has broad jurisdiction over New York legislators, elected officials, candidates and employees.

The commission investigates potential violations of state ethics laws by state employees and elected officials.

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson on Tuesday vetoed the Legislature's attempt to create new ethics panels to monitor elected officials and to require greater financial disclosure by lawmakers, halting for now an overhaul of the rules meant to curb political corruption.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

The New York City Bar Association's committee on government ethics said the proposal «is both practical and sensible, and presents an opportunity to build toward obtaining the goal of providing the public and government officials with an accurate picture of who is spending what to influence the exercise of governmental power by those officials» but urged the tightening of a definition.

A health care consultant with close ties to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did not violate state lobbying regulations when he contacted state officials on behalf of a Queens hospital seeking more Medicaid financing, a confidential investigation by the state ethics commission has determined.

The city's ethics panel on Thursday reinforced existing rules on the use of Twitter and other social media accounts by elected officials — including barring them from using the accounts...

Among other things, the proposal calls for «wider authority» for the state ethics board to root out conflicts of interest by local government officials.

The proposal nearly passed by the Senate would return ethics oversight to a separate board to investigate government officials and another to regulate lobbying.

ALBANY, NY (01/02/2011)(readMedia)-- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed an Executive Order requiring all Executive Chamber staff and other top state officials to participate in ethics training offered by the Commission on Public Integrity.

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The Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner leading the investigation into phone hacking has told the inquiry into media ethics that evidence of payments made by The Sun suggests a «network of corrupted officials.»

Cuomo's office has come under suspicion for alleged interference with the Moreland Commission, an ethics panel the governor established to investigate wrongdoing by public officials.

The ethics agreement will also expand disclosure requirements by political consultants who do work for elected officials as well as for clients with business before the state or local governments, and increase the number of donors to groups that perform lobbying who will be required to disclose their identities.

WASHINGTON — There is «a substantial reason to believe» that Rep. Chris Collins violated federal law by touting the stock of an obscure Australian biotech firm based on inside information, while also possibly breaking House ethics rules by persuading National Institutes of Health officials to meet with a staffer from that company.

If a conflict is discovered, she said, researchers must recuse themselves in a process that's also overseen by EPA's ethics officials.

Those e-mails, which Hayes says were prompted by a heated encounter with a Syngenta scientist, are included in an ethics complaint that Syngenta filed with top University of California officials on July 19.

The 20 March memo was written by Karen Santoro, the agency's designated ethics official, to Margaret Cavanaugh, acting head of the directorate.

A Park Ridge's man's series of ethics complaints against three city employees and one elected official will not be pursued by the City Council.

New Jersey school officials will be subject to a stringent ethics code, under a bill signed by Gov. James J. Florio this month.