Sentences with phrase «ethics committee found»

After the state ethics committee found Tony Bennett not guilty of adjusting A-F letter grades two years ago in an unethical way, Bennett admits Indiana's accountability system is confusing and contributed to the skepticism around those allegations.

A New York assemblyman faces the loss of his staff and offices after an ethics committee found he continued to violate that house's sexual harassment policy.

The ethics committee found that two Rangel aides knew about the source of funding for the trips, but it found no evidence that Rangel himself was aware of that fact.

Outgoing Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin was disciplined for sexual harassment on Wednesday, after an investigation by the chamber's ethics committee found he had asked a female staff member for naked pictures — a claim he vehemently denied.

Mr. Silver announced on Aug. 24 that he was censuring Mr. Lopez, 71, after a bipartisan Assembly ethics committee found credible evidence that Mr. Lopez had groped, kissed and verbally harassed two female employees.

Calls have been mounting for Lopez to give up both his party post and his Assembly seat in the wake of last week's announcement by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that he had censured the veteran lawmaker after a bipartisan ethics committee found he had sexually harassed two female staffers.

This will be the speaker's first public appearance since he abruptly announced Lopez had been censured and stripped of his seniority after the bipartisan legislative ethics committee found the Brooklyn Democrat had made unwanted verbal and physical advances toward several young female staffers.

Kellner — who has been stripped of his position as chairman of the Libraries Committee, banned from from working with interns, and docked of his staff budget as a result of the ethics committee findings — sent a formal notice of appeal to the committee requesting a public hearing on the matter.

Not exact matches

The committee found that McLaughlin had engaged in sexual harassment against an Assembly employee, had been untruthful to an ethics committee investigator, and had revealed the name of the complainant against him after being instructed not to discuss the issue.

Silver announced last night that he would introduce a resolution to begin the process of expelling the sleazy Brooklyn lawmaker in the wake of a scathing report by a state ethics committee that found Lopez sexually harassed women in his office and violated the state's Public Officers Law.

Assemblyman Micah Kellner did not seek re-election this year after an ethics committee report found he interacted inappropriately with members of his personal staff during his time in the Assembly.

The five - member panel, which met last Wednesday to hear testimony in the case, was tasked with making a final determination after the ethics committee for the Public Employees Federation found evidence of a «major violation» and referred it for a hearing.

Here's the supporting documentation Rep. Charlie Rangel's team is preparing in hopes of convincing his House colleagues to reduce his punishment for being found guilty on 11 ethics charges from censure, as was recommended by a 10 - person bipartisan committee, to reprimand.

Labor activist Jonathan Tasini, one of five Democrats who unsuccessfully tried to oust Rep. Charlie Rangel in the Sept. 14 primary, is the first to call on the embattled Harlem congressman to step down after he was found guilty of 11 of 13 ethics charges by a House committee earlier today.

In an ethics hearing, the GOP Committee found Borelli guilty of two counts of disloyalty for working against Republican Clarkstown Highway Superintendent Wayne Ballard and Republican county executive candidate Ed Day; one count of attempted bribery, and one count of attempted office corruption.

Potential proof is right in the ethics committee report, which found that Lopez committed «multiple incidents of unwelcome physical conduct» with one young woman who worked in his office.

Democrats are asking whether Rep. Chris Collins» involvement in an Australian biotech firm amounts to illegal insider trading, but congressional ethics experts doubt that his colleagues on the House Ethics Committee will find anything untoward.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Beleaguered Assemblyman Micah Kellner announced plans to appeal an ethics committee investigation that found he sexually harassed his staffers after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on him to resign in light of the findings.

Sources with knowledge of Rangel's plans also said the 80 - year - old New York Democrat will ask the House ethics committee, which found him guilty of 11 ethics violations Nov. 16, for permission to speak to the full House before any sanction is carried out.

The newly formed state ethics commission, championed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, found that a lobbying group closely associated with the Governor's policies, The Committee to Save New York was the biggest spender in 2011.

US Representative Charles Rangel (D — NY), who was found guilty in 2010 of eleven ethics violations by the House Ethics Committee, is making headlines again.

After Silver issued a statement Friday that he had accepted the ethics committee's findings, a host of political leaders and good government groups called for Lopez to step down, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D - Manhattan, Brooklyn) and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

«I have to wait until after my primary to find about when the ethics committee intends to have a hearing,» Rangel said of the New York primary vote on September 14.

East Hampton Town Ethics Committee East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson announced last Thursday night that the town ethics board had found no wrongdoing after being asked to look into whether Len Bernard, the budget officer, had acted improperly in corresponding from his town office with the state comptroller and a member of the press regarding assertions in campaign literature for Zachary Cohen, Mr. Wilkinson's Democratic challenger in the November election.

Find out what an Institute of Medicine committee had to say about teaching and learning scientific ethics in our story, Getting Scientists to «Do the Right Thing».

Bull found that local ethics committees were increasingly asked to review genomics research or projects with a genomics component.

Ultimately, the Committee found that the lawyer's efforts to use a third party to friend a witness violated various ethics rules prohibiting fraud and deception because the effort to friend the witness would be done with deceptive intent.

The committee found that the judicial code of ethics had been violated and therefore allowed Plante's application.

Comparing him to a «child who is sorry he got caught but not sorry for the infraction,» the committee found that the lawyer had committed numerous ethics rule violations and recommended permanent disbarment.

I'd like to see an ethics committee write a disciplinary opinion saying, «We find that the inappropriate content of the holiday card violated Rule 7.2 of the Rules of Professional Conduct.

In May, a judicial ethics committee of the New York State Unified Court System found that it was ethical for a judge to carry a pistol into his courtroom.

Disagreeing with other ethics committees, the Alabama State Disciplinary Commission recently issued an opinion finding that «[t] he use of daily deal websites, such as Groupon, violates or potentially violates a number of rules of professional conduct.»

Serving as a Research Associate for Endometrin Pharmaceuticals, conducting research into new drugs designed to treat type 2 diabetes; creating trial protocols, working closely with ethics committees, verifying data, and writing detailed reports of findings.