Sentences with phrase «empower local district attorneys»
«It is well past time that our state legislature enact real anti-corruption measures and empower local district attorney offices to bring corruption cases.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo just unveiled Step One in what will be a multi-pronged reform proposal in the wake of last week's back - to - back corruption cases: Empowering local district attorneys to better ferret out and prosecute wrongdoing by dirty elected officials at all levels of government in New York.
They include a variety of topics including campaign finance reform, public financing of campaigns, and empowering local district attorneys to prosecute corruption and ethics noncompliance.
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Dennis C. Vacco, a former state attorney general, said that state law empowers a governor to appoint a special prosecutor at their discretion when there may be a potential conflict of interest involving a local district attorney.