Sentences with phrase «ethics commission released»

The state's ethics commission released the top spending lobbyists to try to influence state government during the 2015 legislative session, and found that education and real estate groups were the biggest spenders.

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.

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Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders have released the names of their appointments to the newest version of the state ethics commission Monday.

Koch, through his good - government group New York Uprising, released lists Thursday of how candidates responded to his call for legislative district boundaries to be drawn by a nonpartisan commission, tougher governmental ethics rules and a better budget process.

Vito Lopez served in the Assembly from 1985 to 2013, when he resigned ahead of a vote of the chamber to expel him after the state ethics commission had released a bombshell report that showed he had routinely sexually harassed young staffers in his office.

A new record has been reached in spending on lobbying in New York, according to a report released by the state's ethics commission.

Ride - hailing firm Uber Technologies was the top lobbying spender for the first half of 2017, a report released Wednesday by the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

The Legislative Ethics Commission, under pressure from the state ethics board, has released the report.

A spokesman for Silver released a statement pointing out that the ethics commission found that all of the Assembly's actions were «lawful», and says they operated under a «good faith belief» that they were acting in the interests of the victims.

Not only has the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver begun, but the trial of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos is set to begin next week; and, there was the recent release of a report by a state ethics review commission calling for changes as well as a national study assessing state government accountability and transparency giving New York a «D -» grade.

(CNN)- The South Carolina Ethics Commission has charged Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 counts of violating state ethics laws, according to a complaint released by the commission Commission has charged Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 counts of violating state ethics laws, according to a complaint released by the commission commission on Monday.

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.

The ABA's Ethics 20/20 Commission recently released a draft proposal (PDF) of changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to assist attorneys in the potential ethics thornbush of online client development.

The latest in the salacious saga of Michigan Judge Wade McCree has been making the law blog rounds this week (via Jonathan Turley, Above the Law), with the release of McCree's answer to the state Judicial Tenure Commission's complaint against him over a series of alleged ethics violations related to his sexual relationship with a complaining witness in a child support case.

The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 has released its latest recommendations so that the rules and ethics of the legal profession keep up with the incredible pace of technology.