Sentences with phrase «campaign ethics watchdog»

A campaign ethics watchdog and a political group are now calling on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the FBI to investigate those connections because they believe the entanglements between the Mercers, the super PAC and the Trump campaign are illegal.

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On Thursday, five government watchdog groups joined together to call for sweeping ethics and campaign finance changes based on revelations exposed during the Percoco trial.

More than $ 227,000 was doled out since 2012 to ethics «watchdogs,» who have served on the state Senate Ethics Committee, including $ 40,000 to state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Queens), $ 25,000 to Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Queens) and $ 105,000 to Sen. Phil Boyle (R - LI), state campaign finance filings reviewed by The Post revealed.

Critics and ethics watchdogs blasted the nonprofit Campaign for One New York as a slush fund for the mayor.

A group of five government watchdog groups, within minutes of the verdict, released a laundry list of ethics, campaign finance and oversight laws that need to be strengthened in New York.

Good - government groups hope it will spur Cuomo and the state legislature to act on ethics reforms, including public financing of campaigns and strengthening official watchdogs, like the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

There has been no shortage of broad ideas for disrupting the system: Banning outside incomes for lawmakers, enacting term limits, creating a truly independent ethics watchdog, closing a loophole that allows companies to skirt campaign - contribution limits, requiring more signoffs for expenditures of more than $ 1 million, to name a few.

Things got a bit heated when he asked about political campaigns «laundering» money through 501 (c)(4) s — a clear reference to the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York — and was abruptly cut off by JCOPE Chair / Westchester County DA Janet DiFiore, who was hand - picked by the governor to head the ethics watchdog.

A crescendo of voices across the state — from good government watchdogs to lawmakers — expressed outrage and demanded stronger ethics laws and campaign finance reforms.

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.

A government ethics watchdog Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission after audio from a secretly recorded conversation implied the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tipped the scales in favor of their preferred candidate, and may have violated campaign finance laws in the Campaign Committee tipped the scales in favor of their preferred candidate, and may have violated campaign finance laws in the campaign finance laws in the process.

Good government groups see the pension forfeiture measure as a token reform and have pressed for the closing of the «LLC loophole» that allows businesses to create multiple limited liability companies to donate virtually unlimited amounts of campaign cash; public financing of candidate campaigns; the end of lump sum appropriations in the budget; limits on political contributions by companies with business before the state; limits on legislators» outside income; and a renovation of Albany's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE).