Sentences with phrase «ethics commission report»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling on Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the subject of a scathing ethics commission report on sexual harassment, to resign from office or be expelled.

After the secret settlement, Lopez hired two more young female staffers and harassed them in the same manner, according to the ethics commission report.

The state ethics commission report on the Assemblyman Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal might finally be made public later this month.

Not exact matches

The Daily News reported today that Silver and the governor have agreed to an ethics package could give the Public Integrity Commission, which oversees the executive branch, the power to investigate the Legislature as well.

If the ethics commission decides to require donor reporting retroactively, donors to the Committee to Save New York in 2011, including Genting, would have to be revealed.

One of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo» s political opponents is calling on Governor Cuomo to hold an explanatory press conference, and another is demanding that Cuomo to resign after an in depth account in The New York Times reports that the governor's top staff repeatedly interfered in an ethics commission investigation.

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.

The ultimate irony is, were there such control over the ethics commission, as implied by this report, the administration would have received favorable rulings within a very short turnaround.

Former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy issued the following response to the grand jury report on the Suffolk County ethics commission:

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos, whose GOP majority rules the Senate, is the second highest earner of private income in the Senate, after former Speaker Silver, as reported in required annual filings with the state ethics commission.

The paper reports that the letter may be precedent - setting, in that it could result in the first investigation of a sitting legislator concerning activities that may or may not have happened before the creation of the state's ethics commission.

One of Governor Cuomo» s political opponents is calling on Cuomo to hold an explanatory press conference, and another is demanding that Cuomo to resign after an in depth account in the New York Times reports that the governor's top staff repeatedly interfered in an ethics commission investigation.

After the Times reported that Cuomo's aides tried to meddle in on going ethics probes and get Moreland Act commissioners to rescind subpoenas that were issued to campaign donors and Cuomo associates, several commissioners simultaneously issued statements insisting that the commission was independent and that they were not coerced.

Governor Cuomo confirms that the US Attorney, Preet Bharara, sent a warning letter to the lawyer representing the now disbanded Moreland Act Commission on ethics, as first reported in the New York Times.

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.

Cuomo created the commission last year and abruptly disbanded it this spring after a budget deal that produced ethics reform, 1010 WINS» Juliet Papa reported.

After the Moreland Commission fiasco it would seem Gov. Cuomo can see the merit of making sure anyone appointed to the ethics review panel, as members of a review commission charged with reporting on the workings of the ethics regulators be aboveCommission fiasco it would seem Gov. Cuomo can see the merit of making sure anyone appointed to the ethics review panel, as members of a review commission charged with reporting on the workings of the ethics regulators be abovecommission charged with reporting on the workings of the ethics regulators be above politics.

A coalition of good - government groups on Monday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to not stock a review commission charged with reporting on the workings of the ethics regulators with the «usual suspects» who will rubberstamp any findings.

That's according to the Joint Commission on Public Ethic's annual lobbying report, which shows $ 205 million in 2012 was spent trying to influence public policy in Albany.

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.

The ethics commission instead referred the report to the Legislature's Joint Ethics Panel.

The New York Times had just reported that Mr. Cuomo's office had substantially compromised an ethics commission of his own making, and now suddenly a campaign that had seemed forged in a doomed idealism felt less gloomy, if not necessarily more viable.

What Cuomo says he did not know was reported by Percoco in financial disclosure forms with the state ethics commission in mid-2015.

In early January, during his State of the State address, Cuomo cited the commission's interim report as evidence for the need to pass new ethics proposals.

Much of the work by the Moreland Commission is ongoing, the report says, but it hopes its recommendations will fuel discussions between the governor and top legislators over a new ethics package that has been under discussion by Cuomo and top lawmakers for months.

But that did not happen before Cuomo was able to use the commission's report to get state lawmakers to agree to a package of ethics reforms, which created new crimes for violating the public trust and corrupting government.

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.

Members of the Public Integrity Commission, the state's ethics watchdog, are rebuffing Governor Paterson's calls for them to step down in response to a report from inspector general Joseph Fisch.

The allegations against the Westchester County DA chosen by Governor Cuomo to head a newly formulated state ethics commission were first reported in the New York Post.

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 group reported spending $ 2.2 million in October, compared to $ 625,402 in September, according to the ethics commission.

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

The ethics - commission report quoted an employee, Diana Hoffman, who'd also been an employee in Hevesi's city comptroller's office, asking the comptroller, «Do we want to do this again?»

Some Lobbyists, as well as government reform groups, say a new rule approved by New York State's ethics commission that would require them to report contact with the news media in some cases, violates first amendment rights and would have chilling effect.

Governor Pataki cut short a European vacation to grandstand on the issue, and appointed a former assistant U.S. attorney to evaluate damning allegations in a state ethics - commission report.

Spitzer's views hardened after he read the ethics - commission report.

The New York Times reported on a leak from JCOPE that the ethics commission had voted to limit its probe to just the circumstances surrounding Assemblyman Lopez's actions, and would not be probing the secret settlement authorized by Silver.

In the face of reports that Cuomo might have meddled in the Moreland Commission's dealings, possibly to quash legal probes into his own finances, or that Cuomo was using the threat of the commission to force closed - door negotiations for an elusive ethics - reform package, Fitzpatrick has vowed that the commission's reporting will be straight, and its work inCommission's dealings, possibly to quash legal probes into his own finances, or that Cuomo was using the threat of the commission to force closed - door negotiations for an elusive ethics - reform package, Fitzpatrick has vowed that the commission's reporting will be straight, and its work incommission to force closed - door negotiations for an elusive ethics - reform package, Fitzpatrick has vowed that the commission's reporting will be straight, and its work incommission's reporting will be straight, and its work independent.

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.

We would prefer to report that there is a breakthrough on ethics reform and that Gov. Cuomo will announce that Preet Bharara will preside over a new, improved Moreland Commission, but obviously we are dreaming.

The office of Inspector General Ellen N. Biben, which wrote the report, is referring the case to the state ethics commission and to the Albany County district attorney.

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.

Earlier this year, the U.K. government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs published a report that was commissioned to examine the use, effectiveness and ethics of electric shock collar use in canines.

but today's report is the first study commissioned by the U.S. government that explains our understanding of the science, ethics, and governance issues presented by geoengineering (also known as «climate engineering») technologies.

The RAB education and training committee (on which I sit) commissioned a report from Professor Kim Economides dealing with the teaching of ethics in legal education, running from undergraduate study through to CPD.

On Wednesday, the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 issued its initial report (PDF) on whether ethics rules should be changed to address lawyers» use of technology for marketing and advertising.

Peach Pundit reports that a complaint has been filed with the state ethics commission against Taylor Bennett, the Democrat in the House District 80 runoff, accusing the Brookhaven attorney of failing to file his personal financial information in a timely manner.