Once declared in effect, these amendments will provide for significant changes to the law's approach on both actual and potential conflicts of
interest by public officials.
Do you think that, in the interest of fairness, investigative bodies should be allowed to conduct integrity tests in order to undercover
wrongdoing by public officials?
After explaining why the simple conversion of research into public law is unlikely, several factors are identified that can promote the use of
research by public officials.
Following are some questions frequently
asked by public officials and helpful answers that support your case to receive funding.
«Today's verdict stands as a vindication of the efforts of this office and the FBI to aggressively root out corruption undertaken
by a public official in New York,» stated Acting United States Attorney Currie.
«Unfortunately, the decision was forced through
by public officials who were blindly committed to this project and abandoned the public trust,» the Oneida Indian Nation said in a statement.
New York needs a nonpartisan attorney general with prosecutorial chops, strong moral fiber and no tolerance for unethical
actions by public officials, no matter how powerful.
The company has been
lambasted by public officials and others for spreading false stories, and for allowing Russian - linked groups to use its platform to potentially sway voters during the 2016 election.
«The Government urges the Court to go further by reading § 1346 to proscribe another category of conduct: undisclosed self -
dealing by a public official or private employee.
While efforts to overhaul ethics laws for state lawmakers have stalled in Albany repeatedly, supporters said they believed the new package would draw enough support to pass the Legislature by focusing broadly on potential criminal
behavior by all public officials rather than significantly expanding disclosure requirements for state lawmakers.
«I think in recent years there has been more involvement
by public officials with respect to specific commission decisions than there has been in the past,» Gioa said when he resigned from the commission in 1987, according to the New York Times.
Both times, the court cited a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Republican former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell that narrowed the definition of a corrupt
act by a public official.
The session in New York City this evening is the first of several planned to consider if additional laws and regulations are needed to address
misconduct by public officials.
Every now and then you come across a
statement by a public official that is so ridiculous, so perfect in its unabashed wrongness, you have to read it a few times to fully appreciate it as a work of demagogic art.
The criminality in question may involve corruption, extortion and other crimes
committed by public officials and others in very challenging high risk jurisdictions where there may not be mutual legal assistance treaties or information sharing agreements.
after losing friends and all our safety personnel and the consideration of the families i see no good coming from this and only animousity and ill feelings and
betrayal by our public officials in asllowing this to happen... it is deplorable and an insult to the 3,000 dead and the thousands affected by this horrible act and time must pass to heal the wounds before the issue is even discussed.
This ruling was passed after a pressure group, Occupy Ghana filed a suit against the Auditor General praying the court to compel them not to only report on financial
misappropriations by public officials but to take steps to retrieve all state finances that may have gone into wrong hands.
However, the president noted that — any Ghanaian can demand to know the assets
declared by public officials with a court order or a petition to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) under the current law.
STONE RIDGE, N.Y. >> Members of SUNY Ulster's Class of 2018 on Saturday were encouraged by WABC television anchor Bill Ritter not to be
swayed by public officials who live in a world of «alternative facts.»
In the Skelos case, jurors were told that an «official act» can encompass «acts customarily
performed by a public official,» including those that further long - term goals or are only steps toward achieving some outcome — language that the Supreme Court later found wasn't specific enough.
Dougherty said that before the start of his address he typically tells an off - color joke previously
made by another public official as a way to warm up the audience.
But what we refer to as the Arab Spring really started in Tunisia, with a young man called Mohamed Bouazizi who, frustrated with his unemployment, high food prices and the harassment he
endured by public officials, set himself on fire in December 2010.
The NPP in a statement issued by Nana Akomea, NPP's Communications Director on Tuesday said «If this trip is sponsored by the Ghanaian taxpayer, we wish to know if it is in consonance with the recent directive from the Office of Chief of Staff, ostensibly issued to curtail wasteful, expensive, luxurious
travels by public officials.»
Radio host Fred Dicker on Thursday digressed in an interview on whether journalists should quote racial slurs when
used by public officials — listing multiple slurs on the radio.
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.
The appointees «will focus exclusively on rooting out abuse and
fraud by public officials so that New Yorkers can have confidence that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely and everyone is playing by the same set of rules,» he said.
The intent of the statute is clear, reportable business relationships are those in which the goods or services are
provided by the public official and the public official is compensated for it.»
There's anger, too, that Bharara is willing to go after family members — Skelos's son, Silver's son - in - law — in his pursuit of
misbehavior by public officials.
As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, the investigation into political donations
received by public officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, apparently has expanded.
Asked later by New York Post reporter Erik Kriss if he was bothered, generally, by the idea that the state would use public funds to settle such
misdeeds by public officials, Cuomo said it wasn't so uncommon.
«There are a lot of other elements of the report where there was no dissent and there was no division,» Cuomo said, referring to proposed changes in bribery laws, enhanced
disclosure by public officials and retooled enforcement of campaign finance laws.