Sentences with phrase «ethics enforcement agencies»

But it's also feasible other lawmakers have filed misleading reports knowing the state's internal ethics enforcement agencies were unlikely to look at them through a microscope.

Seth Agata, recently appointed the head of the state ethics enforcement agency, JCOPE, is Governor Cuomo's former top lawyer.

Dick Dadey of the Citizens Union good - government group, who supported Agata's choice, «Given the need for our public ethics enforcement agency to be as transparent as possible, providing this information seems like a no - brainer to me.»

And his diagnosis was correct: the key to real reform — and success in ending Albany's ethical weaknesses — was, and is, the establishment of an independent ethics enforcement agency that would enforce New York law without fear or favor.

Yesterday, the Joint Committee on Public Ethics — New York's ethics enforcement agency — selected Seth Agata as its new executive director.

While JCOPE is an improvement on its predecessor, the ethics enforcement agency was criticized this week for neglecting to focus on legislators» behavior in their home districts — for instance, Pedro Espada's embezzlement scandal, which occurred not in Albany but in Espada's home district in the Bronx.