Sentences with phrase «ethics commission about»

And it was Cuomo who opened an investigation into how former Gov. David Paterson handled a domestic violence accusation against a member of his staff and a separate inquiry into whether Paterson lied to the state's ethics commission about his office's solicitation of Yankees tickets.

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.

Not exact matches

When he faced questions about a pending state ethics probe back in March, State Sen. Marc C. Panepinto insisted he knew of no investigation and cited the need for an official notice from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Negotiations about some ethics package that could be praised as acceptable by all sides and relegate the Moreland Commission to irrelevance apparently stalled before the latest political conflict erupted.

Leaders of the New York state legislature are in court fighting a request from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ethics commission that they turn over details about their private law clients.

Schneiderman's opponent in the fall elections is one of those raising questions about whether the attorney general, who was key to the formation of the ethics commission, could have been more involved and done something to stop alleged interference in probes by Cuomo's aides.

Catsimatidis in the radio interview with Talk 1300's Fred Dicker said he had not spoken to Cuomo about the bill and that it was his idea to contact ethics regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to receive approval for the trip.

Bulgaro is not giving any reason for his departure, but he was one of the few commissioners in the ethics board's two - year history to speak out publicly at a meeting last September, when he complained about leaks from the commission to the media on the Silver investigation.

McArdle said Skelos, of Nassau County, did not seek an opinion about the arrangement from the legislative ethics commission.

The state ethics commission requires officials to disclose information about some of the finances of their married partners.

The Tallahassee ethics board will send a letter to the city commission warning about the appearance of impropriety.

A legislative ethics commission has sent a notice of delinquency to former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver demanding more information about his outside income.

Mr. Lopez, who as the Democratic leader in Brooklyn and chairman of the Assembly's housing committee projected great influence across New York City and the state, resigned in May 2013 after a state ethics commission released a report about his alleged behavior including groping of female staff members and other unwanted sexual advances.

«If there any questions of how it operated, fine,» Cuomo said when asked about the commission, adding he wanted to do «more» on ethics overhaul legislation, but was proud of the results he's achieved so far.

But Astorino refused to back down, raising questions about the Moreland Commission, an ethics panel Cuomo first established and then shut down.

One day before the state ethics commission is to hold hearings on new rules for lobbying disclosures, there are more revelations about a multi million dollar advocacy group associated with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The poll also asked questions about the governor's Moreland Commission on ethics, and the controversy surrounding it, and found some weaknesses there for Cuomo.

She says her group, which has already filed a complaint with the IRS and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman about ALEC, is now asking the state's ethic commission, JCOPE, to look into it.

DiFiore refused to discuss details, when she was asked about them following a lengthy closed door meeting of the ethics commission.

Given the tumultuous year that Albany has on the demerits front, with two well - known politicians in danger of landing behind bars, it was inevitable that Cuomo was going to say something about ethics, too — especially since Preet Bharara said he couldn't prove that the governor did anything illegal with the Moreland Commission.

ALBANY — A good - government advocate said New York's ethics commission is «like a black box» for not revealing whether it is investigating a complaint about political parties» alleged lobbying.

The News asked about Howe's status after his biography was suddenly scrubbed from the firm's website and his name removed from the state ethics commission website as representing clients for Whiteman Osterman & Hanna.

«I want ethics reform... that's what the Moreland Commission is all about,» Cuomo told Susan Arbetter on «The Capitol Pressroom.»

«The latest chapter of this wayward commission is another clumsy exchange that has only served to raise new ethics concerns about the government, and not solve them.»

But the political stand down is a sign of forward progress for talks about a new package of tweaks to ethics and campaign finance laws that have proceeded as a whispered backdrop to the Moreland Commission's investigatory work.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's opponent in the fall elections is one of those raising questions about whether the Attorney General, who was key to the formation of the ethics commission, could have been more involved and done something to stop alleged interference in probes by Governor Cuomo's aides.

They also talk about the deal with the legislature to reform the ethics commissions in New York state, redistricting, his relationship with the governor and whether he would one day be interested in seeking a higher office.

Anton Borovina, who served as first counsel to the county Ethics Commission and who helped draft the law, said, «The Suffolk County ethics law applies to him, and the Suffolk County ethics code requires all employees to file disclosure forms that include information about the spouse, P - E-R-I-O-D.»

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.

«I support an independent commission making the determination of salary levels,» Krueger said, «but also feel any increases must be tied into reforms of our ethics laws, the ending of lulus and explicit rules about amounts and sources of outside income.»

Bulgaro is not giving any reason for his departure, but he was one of the few commissioners in the ethics board two year history to speak out publicly at a meeting last September, when he complained about leaks from the commission to the media on the Silver investigation.

Among the CSFR / OSFR early professional ethics initiatives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the committee to review proposed regulations regarding issues of technical dissent with the agency, OSFR staff surveyed 241 professional societies asking them about the extent of their organization's professional ethics issues and efforts, and the CSFR, the President's Commission on Ethical Problems in Medicine and Research and the group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical research.

The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission.

A new report on the ethics of Ebola, released today by the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, takes a nuanced view of the questions about study design; the committee doesn't rule out placebo - controlled studies but allows room for other designs as well.

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When I hear of local bar associations in the U.S. taking legal action against the providers of reputable online legal services on the ground of their unauthorized practice of law, or when I hear that senior general counsel in the U.S. have said that nonlawyers should not be permitted to deliver legal services because only lawyers can achieve the requisite ethics standards required of a legal adviser, or when I hear of opposition to various forms of liberalization on the part of members of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, I want to challenge whether this is about protecting clients or protecting lawyers.

But think about it; with ethics aside, why would that listing agent sell a buyer into their own listing for an extremely small commission when they could sell another brokerage's listing for a higher commission, plus still earn the advertised low fee when another agent sells that discount agent's listing?

Concerns about your fee may be the least of your worries, because your friend could file an ethics complaint against you with your state commission for violating Article 9.

Brokers frequently contact the Real Estate Commission to inquire about ethics training.