Sentences with phrase «dealing by a public official»

· Amend The Penal Law To Prohibit Undisclosed Self - Dealing By Public Officials: To address the Supreme Court's decision in Skilling, which severely hampered the federal government's ability to prosecute cases involving deprivation of «honest services» by public officials, New York State should enact a felony - level crime of «Undisclosed Self - Dealing» to target public officials who further their own financial self - interest while purporting to be acting on behalf of their constituents or government employer.

«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.

Not exact matches

All of us fret and kick against the steel bands of institutionalism; the teacher against the grading system, the social worker against the artificiality created by the very fact of his being a professional representative of the state commissioned to deal with human needs, the worker something of whose very life is «bought» against the employer, and the sensitive employer who buys that portion of that life against the system, the public official against the role which political necessity assigns to him.

«Today's public comments by Manchester United's manager, announcing that he has made an offer for Dimitar and is confident that the deal will go through with time working in their favour, is a blatant example of sheer arrogance and interference with one of our players,» said Tottenham Hotspur chairman, Daniel Levy, in a statement on the club's official website.

The commission advises created another new criminal offense of «undisclosed self dealing» by elected officials who don't tell the public they may have a financial interest in a particular bill or policy.

The timeline assembled by the village of Hoosick Falls — with assistance from a public relations firm, Behan Communications — details the outreach village leaders said they made to elected officials as far back as December 2014 seeking assistance in dealing with the growing realization that the town's water supply showed unsafe levels of the toxic compound.

In addition, self - dealing and conflicts of interest by public officials, formerly chargeable as honest services fraud, are now beyond the reach of that statute.

He said although the country had done well in establishing the needed legal frameworks to deal with corruption, including the Public Procurement and the WhistleBlowers acts, a lot more needed to be done by way of punishing corrupt public offiPublic Procurement and the WhistleBlowers acts, a lot more needed to be done by way of punishing corrupt public offipublic officials.

Cuomo proposed a comprehensive package of bills to combat workplace sexual harassment that includes sparing taxpayers from funding settlements involving public officials and barring governments from entering into secret deals not expressly sought by victims.

The members of the public were spurred on by an op - ed piece published on an internet news source that implied town officials had already made a back - door deal with another entity to run the shelter, and by a letter sent to other animal service organizations soliciting proposals by a woman who has long been an opponent of the League's presence at the shelter, ostensibly at the urging of a member of the Town Board.

In a recent op - ed published by the New York Daily News, the father of two Brooklyn public school students gives a first - hand account of just how important it is that the teachers» union and City officials come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation deal.

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 commission advises creating another new criminal offense of undisclosed self dealing by elected officials who don't tell the public they may have a financial interest in a particular bill or policy.

Ken Girardin, an analyst with the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany think tank that advocates for lower taxes and restrained government spending, said, «These higher pay figures reflect bad decisions by both local officials, who signed off on costly deals with the PBA, and state officials, who refuse to fix the state's binding arbitration system that's rigged» to benefit unions.

At a press conference this morning, David Cameron's official spokesman has expressed confidence from within Downing Street for reaching a deal with the unions over public sector pensions by the end of the year.

A very good Argentinian movie, The Official Story, deals with the wife of a public official who learns that her adopted child was taken from parents murdered by her husband's Official Story, deals with the wife of a public official who learns that her adopted child was taken from parents murdered by her husband's official who learns that her adopted child was taken from parents murdered by her husband's cronies.

A federal appeals court has reinstated a $ 1 million jury verdict awarded to a special education teacher who claimed she was fired by public school officials in Portland, Ore., in retaliation for complaining that her students were getting a raw deal.

Ohio officials are weighing their next move after the Ohio Supreme Court dealt a huge blow to Gov. Ted Strickland, the legislature, and public school advocates by ruling that the legalization of slot - like machines at horse - racing tracks is subject to a statewide referendum.

In Clinton Public Schools, a suburban district outside of Jackson, officials have tried to deal with inadequate funding by cutting teacher assistants from second - and third - grade classes.

The crisis was the subject of heated parliamentary debate last week, with Teresa May's government struggling on multiple fronts to defend the idea of public services contracting, launch a convincing investigation of what happened, take credible steps to deal with what is widely seen as compensation - gouging by the company's directors, the perception of sweetheart contracts extended to a struggling company, continuing doubtsabout official and company conflicts of interest, and about the impact of still - undetermined huge taxpayer losses — not least over underfunded pensions that have now come onto its books.

While the deal is now public, it will not be official until it has been approved by antitrust regulators in the U.S. government.

O'Donoghue's minority report in the Hiatt inquiry aimed to deal with this issue by proposing that the replacement for the NACC should be based in regional organisations feeding into state advisory bodies that comprised both regional Indigenous representatives and state public officials.