Sentences with phrase «ethics commission came»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The issue first came to light in a leaked memorandum from the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, Risa Sugarman, a position formed in 2014 following an ethics agreement in the budget and the shuttering of the Moreland Commission, a panel formed to investigate corruption in the Legislature.

The ethics commission's first meeting comes on the same day that State Senator Carl Kruger pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to felony charges, for accepting more than a million dollars in bribes to maintain what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle, including a large house owned by a former mafia boss and a Bentley automobile.

«Having said that, the confidentiality agreement came out of mediation, and it should not have been agreed to, and that's the No. 1 mistake we made; and No. 2 was not sending it to the ethics commission,» he said.

The Skelos news also comes a year after the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption was shuttered following an agreement on ethics reform in the state budget in 2014.

The new contract comes as the commission is bogged down by reports of gubernatorial interference and a sense that it could simply become cover for a negotiated ethics package.

Kauffmann's resignation comes a day after New York's Commission on Public Integrity charged Paterson with an ethics violation for accepting free tickets to the first game of last year's World Series.

Some reform proposals that have come forward are to strip pensions of officials convicted of corruption, establishing an ethics commission and preventing limited liability corporations from donating anonymously to campaigns.

And when it comes to ethics oversight, it's pretty clear after five inept years that the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) is no better than its predecessors.

Back in 1987, a spate of ethics scandals led the first Governor Cuomo to appoint a Moreland Commission of his own, which he called the New York State Commission on Government Integrity, but later came to be known as the Feerick commission (after the Fordham law dean who chCommission of his own, which he called the New York State Commission on Government Integrity, but later came to be known as the Feerick commission (after the Fordham law dean who chCommission on Government Integrity, but later came to be known as the Feerick commission (after the Fordham law dean who chcommission (after the Fordham law dean who chaired it).

The Commission will implement all recommendations of the Inspector General, including undergoing the appropriate ethics training in the coming weeks.

Jacob, who under the ethics panel rules can not reveal his votes on commission investigations, denied that he had shown any favoritism to Silver, saying «nobody would come to this table to block anyone».

«He should resign immediately, his Modus Operandi has been to bully and intimidate his opponents and now it's come to light that he's been interfering with his own ethics commission.

Cuomo's office has come under suspicion for alleged interference with the Moreland Commission, an ethics panel the governor established to investigate wrongdoing by public officials.

We would expect that a listing agent would advise their seller of what could happen if a buyer had agreed to pay their agent a higher percentage of commission than is being offered by the seller, but once again this comes down to ethics and professionalism, and in the end it isn't likely to be scrutinized by any governing authority.