Sentences with phrase «ethics charges brought against»

Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV is rejecting attemps by his primary opponent, Rep. Charlie Rangel, and Rangel supporters to suggest race is a factor in the ethics charges brought against the Harlem Democrat and his House colleague, California Rep. Maxine Waters.

Peter Kauffmann, who resigned his post as Gov. David Paterson's communications director in the wake of ethics charges brought against his boss by the Public Integrity Commission, has landed a new job in the private sector.

Not exact matches

US Senate designee Gary Berntsen is the latest in what I expect will be a long line of Republicans to pressure his Democratic target — in this case, Sen. Chuck Schumer — to turn his back on Rep. Charlie Rangel following news of the ethics charges being brought against him.

Initially lacking resources and power within his own party, Gingrich brought ethics charges and exploited scandals that provoked Democratic leaders «into overreactions that enraged Republicans and united them to vote against Democratic initiatives,» Mann and Ornstein write.21

Corruption charges brought against a member of the state Senate Republican majority Wednesday have provided an opportunity for Democrats to jumpstart the seemingly dormant conversation on government ethics as state budget negotiations enter their final week.

The work of the Moreland Commission helped Mr. Bharara's office bring corruption charges against Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who recently stepped down as speaker and whose arrest in January refocused attention on the need for better oversight on ethics.