Sentences with phrase «county ethics board»

Mahoney was soon joined by Dino Dixie, who does business with the county; Duane Owens, the county personnel commissioner who was facilities commissioner at the time; Dennis DuVal, a member of the county ethics board and former Syracuse police chief; and Mike McCarthy, her former brother - in - law.

Note: Next time, vet those issues with the county ethics board.

She and her predecessor, former District Attorney Kathleen Rice, in the past called on Nassau officials to adopt similar restrictions but the Republican - controlled county legislature and county ethics board never acted on their suggestions.

I've never been notified that I haven't been,» said Frank Ranucci, a former Schenectady County legislator who is listed as a member of the Schenectady County ethics board on its website.

The Rensselaer County ethics board handled complaints and advisory opinions in 2014, 2015 and 2016 — including a May 2014 opinion requested by former County Legislature Chairman Republican Martin Reid, who wanted to work for the county - funded Commission on Economic Opportunity while remaining on the legislature.

Officials were uncertain about whether a new Suffolk law requiring the county ethics board to release officials» financial disclosure publicly would apply to John Scott Prudenti, a district attorney bureau chief who rented his partyboat to criminal defense attorneys with cases before the DA's office.

Not exact matches

Newsday endorses Laura Curran for Nassau County executive Laura Curran, Democratic candidate for Nassau County executive, talks to the Newsday editorial board about ethics and working with the legislature.

The scandal resulted in multiple probes conducted by the AG, the IG, the Albany County DA and the state ethics board, the Commission on Public Integrity (the precursor to JCOPE).

District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, who sits on the county's ethics board, says Antonacci's outside income officiating basketball games and doing bookwork for personal clients creates ethics questions.

Jones, too, said he would prioritize ethics reform in Albany if elected, citing the ethics board formed in Franklin County under his leadership that requires county officials to disclose outside financial iCounty under his leadership that requires county officials to disclose outside financial icounty officials to disclose outside financial income.

Except for the county attorney, the revamped ethics code directs that no member of the five - member board «shall be a public employee in any jurisdiction» or «hold any political party office.»

The decision was signed by Chairman Owen Smith, one of only three members remaining on the Ethics Board since the county legislature revised the county ethics code in July.

District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, a member of the county's five - person ethics board, said the new law is necessary to rein in «chronically obtuse» officials who fail to see that outside income poses potential conflicts of interest with their elected positions.

«While the County Executive refuses to answer the remaining questions about undue political influence affecting county operations, COMIDA board members have chosen to resign their volunteer posts rather than be dragged into the quicksand of this ethics disaster,» County Legislator Mark Muoio, D,County Executive refuses to answer the remaining questions about undue political influence affecting county operations, COMIDA board members have chosen to resign their volunteer posts rather than be dragged into the quicksand of this ethics disaster,» County Legislator Mark Muoio, D,county operations, COMIDA board members have chosen to resign their volunteer posts rather than be dragged into the quicksand of this ethics disaster,» County Legislator Mark Muoio, D,County Legislator Mark Muoio, D, said.

Erie County Comptroller Stefan I. Mychajliw violated the county's ethics laws when he asked county - connected businessmen to cover nearly $ 12,000 in tuition costs so he could attend a Harvard University business program, the county's Board of Ethics has County Comptroller Stefan I. Mychajliw violated the county's ethics laws when he asked county - connected businessmen to cover nearly $ 12,000 in tuition costs so he could attend a Harvard University business program, the county's Board of Ethics has county's ethics laws when he asked county - connected businessmen to cover nearly $ 12,000 in tuition costs so he could attend a Harvard University business program, the county's Board of Ethics has county - connected businessmen to cover nearly $ 12,000 in tuition costs so he could attend a Harvard University business program, the county's Board of Ethics has county's Board of Ethics has found.

The Suffolk Board of Ethics did not investigate County Executive Steve Bellone's letter raising a conflict of interest complaint against a district attorney bureau chief because the allegations occurred before the ethics board was created in 2012, the board's counsel Board of Ethics did not investigate County Executive Steve Bellone's letter raising a conflict of interest complaint against a district attorney bureau chief because the allegations occurred before the ethics board was created in 2012, the board's counsel board was created in 2012, the board's counsel board's counsel said.

Despite the breadth of work, Rensselaer County says it has no ethics board agendas or minutes for those years.

Saratoga County Attorney Stephen Dorsey, for example, did not respond to repeated requests for information on elemental aspects of the county's ethics board, including who its members are and how often it County Attorney Stephen Dorsey, for example, did not respond to repeated requests for information on elemental aspects of the county's ethics board, including who its members are and how often it county's ethics board, including who its members are and how often it meets.

When the Times Union requested records of meeting agendas and minutes from Schenectady County, as it did for 20 other local municipalities that have ethics boards, it provided only one brief agenda from 2013.

Earlier this year, Wood said, she introduced an «ethics and disclosure policy» to the town board, mirroring that of the county board of supervisors.

The board voted 4 - 0 that Schopf, a Republican and an attorney who is an elected at - large representative for Clifton Park on the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, is considered a town official under Clifton Park's ethics code and as such should not appear in town court representing clients cited for town code violations, or those who have received vehicle or traffic ticboard voted 4 - 0 that Schopf, a Republican and an attorney who is an elected at - large representative for Clifton Park on the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, is considered a town official under Clifton Park's ethics code and as such should not appear in town court representing clients cited for town code violations, or those who have received vehicle or traffic ticBoard of Supervisors, is considered a town official under Clifton Park's ethics code and as such should not appear in town court representing clients cited for town code violations, or those who have received vehicle or traffic tickets.

Gross also said the ethics board is in a difficult position as an agency that keeps the financial disclosure records open for public inspection, while the board and its staff are barred by the county ethics law from disclosing confidential information.

CLIFTON PARK — The town's ethics advisory board ruled Tuesday night that Saratoga County Supervisor Jonathan Schopf is violating Clifton Park's ethics code by representing certain legal clients who appear in town court.

While Hughes» name was on two letters rebuking Schopf, Rybak went another step and appeared before the ethics board to argue that the board should rule against the county supervisor.

While Gross said the board took Bellone's letter «very seriously,» ethics officials said it was not considered a «formal complaint,» because the county executive did not fill out the board's complaint form.

Curran, however, said her plans to reconstitute the board would go farther than Martins» by retraining employees on the county ethics code and encouraging them to report wrongdoing.

Nassau's lame - duck Board of Ethics has rebuffed District Attorney Madeline Singas» request for an opinion on the legality of partisan governmental mailings even as the county attorney acknowledged this week that the board's current membership does not conform with Nassau's revised ethics Board of Ethics has rebuffed District Attorney Madeline Singas» request for an opinion on the legality of partisan governmental mailings even as the county attorney acknowledged this week that the board's current membership does not conform with Nassau's revised ethics board's current membership does not conform with Nassau's revised ethics code.

Buffalo, NY — Erie County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz issued a critical audit Thursday of the county's Board of Ethics and its ethicsCounty Comptroller Mark Poloncarz issued a critical audit Thursday of the county's Board of Ethics and its ethicscounty's Board of Ethics and its ethics code.

Ethics Board Finds Prosecutor's Former Law Partner Violated 2 Rules An attorney ethics panel has recommended William Laufer be admonished for claiming he had Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp, his former law partner, in his «pocket.»

In June 2016, the county's board of ethics defended Mahoney's position at the Thruway in response to a complaint from Antonacci, saying, in part, that Mahoney's appointment to the position is good for the county.

In the claim, Antonacci names Mahoney, County Personnel Director Duane Owens and Dennis DuVal, a member of the county's ethics board and a former Syracuse police County Personnel Director Duane Owens and Dennis DuVal, a member of the county's ethics board and a former Syracuse police county's ethics board and a former Syracuse police chief.

Nassau has had a similar law since 2007, but officials this year bolstered the powers of the body that reviews potential violations, the county board of ethics.

In Suffolk County, it is a board that reviews financial disclosure forms, renders advisory opinions on the county's ethics law, and conducts hearings as necessary to implement thCounty, it is a board that reviews financial disclosure forms, renders advisory opinions on the county's ethics law, and conducts hearings as necessary to implement thcounty's ethics law, and conducts hearings as necessary to implement the law.

The plan: To repeal the county's old, amended 1989 ethics policy and replace it with a tougher one, designed to better prevent conflicts of interest, increase fines for financial disclosure violations and strengthen the Board of Ethics.

The Miami - Dade County school board has adopted more stringent rules of ethics for conducting its business, a move designed to restore public confidence after a bruising year of disclosures about inappropriate spending by the panel and the district's former superintendent.

Mr. Maltz has been certified to teach an ethics CLE course by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board and he lectures often on disciplinary and ethical issues for New York State, City, and County Bar associations and for private law firms.