Sentences with phrase «ethical scandals»

Good - government groups praised the action and said it sends a message to state government rocked by corruption and ethical scandals over the last four years.

Now even that role looks doubtful, thanks to the embarrassing and seemingly unending series of ethical scandals rocking Albany.

Silver, who would become the longest - serving speaker in state history next year, has survived previous ethical scandals, including widespread complaints over his handling of sexual harassment charges against former Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the earlier conviction of his top aide, Michael Boxley, on a charge of sexual misconduct.

ALBANY — As the latest ethical scandal swirled around the State Capitol, New York lawmakers on Monday faced a barrage of questions about the propriety, and even legality, of a raft of questionable stipends given to seven senators.

In a chamber wracked by ethical scandals and likely facing rough budget negotiations, members have expressed faith that Heastie can get the Assembly majority back up to speed.

So they set out to test the phenomenon with a series of experiments, using vignettes modeled after real - life ethical scandals.

«Participants were presented with brief vignettes about ethical scandals and received very little information about the target of moral spillover, other than their organizational membership,» he says.

(Reuters) • Pruitt is seeking extra help defending himself from an onslaught of ethical scandals through a private legal defense fund, but that may come with ethical issues of its own.

Not long after Harry Stonecipher was brought back to lead Boeing Co out of a series of ethical scandals, he was caught having an affair with a subordinate.

One by one, executives, board members, investors and even close friends slowly fell away as Uber became embroiled in a seemingly ceaseless series of legal and ethical scandals, according to interviews with more than a dozen Uber insiders, former employees, investors and others, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

While a string of ethical scandals were still far ahead of him, embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt proposed refashioning the logo of his agency because he felt it resembled a marijuana leaf.

«We've had the Internet, a wave of ethical scandals, an unprecedented flow of money into politics, 9/11 and the war on terror, an additional one million people calling New York City home, and climate change.

The «Pensiongate» Scandal is at the center of the ETHICAL and SCANDAL mess that is Albany, and Hank Morris is the mastermind of it ALL

The governor had a number of options for addressing the central problems that contribute to New York's ethical scandals, including: