Sentences with phrase «ethics commission»

A 1990s opinion from the state ethics commission said that effectively means election campaigns can not use state resources.
The resolution notes that confidentiality is necessary with respect to the legislative ethics commission in order to encourage individuals to seek ethics guidance.
The first public meeting of the state's new ethics commission came on the day that another state senator pleaded guilty to felony corruption charges.
For instance, financial disclosure statements filed with a joint executive - legislative ethics commission will be posted online.
The public ethics commission can issue fines, but only for specific violations, such as improper financial disclosures.
The newly established ethics commission is supposed to become a national forum.
The state ethics commission requires officials to disclose information about some of the finances of their married partners.
He created a special ethics commission, then shut it down.
It also creates a three - person ethics commission to enforce the limit and determine whether particular gifts are acceptable.
Because the sample consisted of under aged adolescents with severe behavior problems, the research was reviewed and approved by the relevant medical ethics commission.
She was the first chair of the state ethics commission when it was created by the governor and the legislature in 2011.
The state's new ethics commission, announced this week, is already raising some questions after holding its first meeting in private, without public notice.
To restore public confidence and address this potential and actual conflict of interest, Andrew Cuomo will... establish an independent State ethics commission with robust enforcement powers to investigate and punish violations of law by members of both the executive and legislative branches.»
Silver paid the money to the Manhattan law firm of Stroock, Stroock & Lavin, which represented him during a state ethics commission probe of the Lopez sexual harassment scandal, campaign records show.
NEW YORK — Real estate giant Glenwood Management was fined $ 200,000 by a state ethics commission for its role in the federal corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once two of New York's most powerful politicians.
The New York state ethics commission met Tuesday, and spent most of its time in a private session, as a key appointee of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver resigned from the board.
Last month, a legislative ethics commission report found that Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat, mistreated female staff members through groping and unwelcome advances.
A panel commissioned to review practices at New York's troubled ethics commission held its one and only public hearing Wednesday, as its Chair says lack of staff and excess of paperwork may make it difficult to meet the group's November 1st deadline.
The targets of good - government groups have leveled such criticisms: During his 2010 State of the State address, former Gov. David Paterson memorably proposed creating an independent ethics commission with oversight of «so - called good government groups, who hide their donors behind walls of sanctimony.»
ALBANY — For the second consecutive year, a coalition of business leaders supportive of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo spent more money on lobbying in New York State last year than any other group, according to a report the state ethics commission released on Thursday.
A lobbying group closely associated with Governor Andrew Cuomo was the elephant in the room during a hearing by the state ethics commission on new rules for donor disclosure.
It investigates alleged ethics violations in the executive branch and regulates lobbying while the Legislature's ethics commission investigates lawmakers.
A panel commissioned to review practices at New York's troubled ethics commission held it's one and only public hearing Wednesday, as its chairman says lack of staff and excess of paperwork may make it difficult to meet the group's November 1 deadline.
Governor Cuomo, in his first appearance since the controversy over his disbanded ethics commission was detailed in the New York Times, delivered a spirited speech in Buffalo, touting the work he's done to help the city's troubled economy, calling it an «unbelievable turn around,» and announcing the creation of over 600 new jobs.
As Alan Hevesi ran for re-election in 2006, the state ethics commission found he had violated the law by using a staffer as a driver for his seriously ill wife for three years and not paying for it until after his Republican opponent raised the issue.
Beebe called Darr on Tuesday to ask for his resignation, according to a spokesman for Beebe, after an Arkansas ethics commission ruled that Darr had broken 11 campaign finance laws since 2010.
O.K., maybe the state ethics commission did say last week that he had lied about soliciting and accepting free Yankees tickets, and fined him $ 62,125.
Gov. Eric Greitens» former campaign manager told the Missouri attorney general's office that the governor knowingly lied to the state ethics commission about how he came to possess a donor list belonging to a veterans charity.
This week, Bharara said that a probe of Cuomo's controversial Moreland Act ethics commission has ended, without finding any evidence of criminal acts.
Cuomo's own ethics commission was scuttled by the governor himself before being taken over by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who went on to successfully prosecute the leaders of both state houses.
David Grandeau is the former head of the State Lobbying Commission, where Bulgaro also served as Chair, and which was merged into the present ethics commission.
It replaced a former ethics commission that also was troubled.
Klein late Thursday sent a letter to the state's ethics commission asking for an independent investigation.
Aides to Cuomo discouraged a state ethics commission from issuing subpoenas connected to Buying Time, according to recent reports that the governor steered the commission away from entities that touched on his administration.
And it paid $ 10,000 to the firm of Morvillo Abramowitz, where Cuomo has retained white collar criminal defense attorney Elkan Abramowitz to represent members of the governor's staff in the inquiry into the shuttered ethics commission.
Records on the state ethics commission website show that Whiteman Osterman & Hanna signed a contract in March 2016 to provide «legislative and regulatory counsel» while lobbying the governor's office, state agencies and the Legislature on issues of real estate development, construction, property management and other matters.
The moves come after the News reported Thursday that Howe's name had been included on a state ethics commission list of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna lobbyists who are representing COR Development and SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
For the first time, State Senators and Assembly members will be under the jurisdiction of a joint ethics commission.
«We must pass tougher ethics laws and enforce them by establishing a truly independent oversight ethics commission,» Molinaro said.
Companies bidding for the casinos have retained 31 different lobbying firms since 2012, and recent filings with the state's ethics commission show that many of the bidders have retained lobbyists for the first time in New York State.
Governor Cuomo, who has cited the creation of the new ethics commission as one of his proudest achievements, also weighed in.
He is a member of British Cycling's regional commission, chair of the technical commission, chair of the sports ethics commission and has also served on British Cycling's appeals panel.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Friday named to the state's ethics commission Jim Yates, a former Assembly counsel under ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver and a key player in one of the biggest legislative ethics scandals in recent memory.
The first public meeting of the state's new ethics commission came on the day that another State Senator pleaded guilty to felony corruption charges.
Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders have released the names of their appointments to the newest version of the state ethics commission Monday.
Former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy issued the following response to the grand jury report on the Suffolk County ethics commission:
The ethics pledge envisions a reinvigorated ethics commission with sweeping jurisdiction and subpoena power, comprehensive annual financial disclosure requirements and the creation of a panel to recommend limits on campaign contributions from individuals and organizations that solicit or obtain state business.
ALBANY — State Sen. Jeff Klein, the leader of the IDC, has asked a quasi-independent ethics commission to investigate an accusation that he forcibly kissed a staffer.
The state ethics commission tends to overlook minimal use of state resources that don't create significant personal financial benefit, executive director Robert Caruso told the AP, speaking generally, but not about McGinty's case specifically.
Janet DiFiore, nominated to become New York's next chief judge, was the original chairwoman of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's much - maligned ethics commission.
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