Sentences with phrase «ethics laws»

But an emerging body of ethics law requires lawyers also to be competent in technology.

The commission investigates potential violations of state ethics laws by state employees and elected officials.

Now, the legislature will not want to pass new ethics laws.

But he also indicated he wanted to do more on the issue after approving the fourth ethics law in the more than five years he has been governor.

No one had seen anything like it — and the calls for stronger ethics laws became widespread.

Remove all religion and you have to replace morality with ethics laws that would fill hundreds of books and remove all «free» choice.

The extent to which such ad - blogs violate local ethics laws has yet to be explored by any ethics committee that I know of, though surely that day is coming soon.

The purpose of financial disclosure reports is to provide assurance that reporting individuals are in compliance with applicable ethics laws and regulations.

A circulating ethics law proposal could find its way onto the ballot as well.

Legislative ethics laws worthy of the name wouldn't entirely stop wrongdoing by people from whom the public has every right to expect so much more, of course.

These professionals determine company responsibilities, report to business managers, make sure ethics laws are not violated, develop compliance training programs, and contribute to a stronger regulatory environment.

Due to a series of changes in state ethics laws, officials now need to disclose more — though not all — information about clients they represent.

He fought for a tough new ethics law and the lowest tax rates in 50 years.

As we head into the final months of the 2017 session calendar, it is my hope the governor does not continue to dismiss the need for stronger ethics laws.

According to the county ethics law, relatives include «spouses or registered domestic partners» of relatives.

Top White House strategist Kellyanne Conway on Thursday wouldn't say whether President Trump will discipline her after a watchdog group said she violated federal ethics law by endorsing a Republican candidate in an Alabama Senate race.

The Committee to Save New York refuses to proactively disclose its list of donors unless certain provisions of the state's recently passed ethics law require it to, spokesman Michael McKeon said today.

«Albany has been rocked by scandal after scandal, and yet the Senate continues to bury their heads in the sand and refuses to take action,» Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said of the need for stronger ethics law changes in the wake of the latest round of corruption cases in Albany.

In December, Glenwood paid a fine by JCOPE for violating ethics laws in connection with both the Silver and Skelos scandals.

Asked whether the group should voluntarily disclose where its money comes from, Mr. Cuomo responded by noting that an overhaul of the state ethics law for which he won passage last year will require the disclosure of donors in the future.

We believe this is a big mistake and further undermine the credibility of an agency that has struggled to independently and effectively investigate and enforce violations of state ethics laws by the governor, legislature, state employees, and lobbyists.

ALBANY — The Democratic agreement on ethics law changes, touted Wednesday morning by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, would still allow state lawmakers to use campaign funds for dinners out and criminal defense attorneys.

She successfully worked with her state's legislature to overhaul government ethics laws and to fix her state's structural budget deficit.

Cuomo in 2010 campaigned, in part, on overhauling ethics laws in Albany.

The former enforcers also say proposed ethics laws wouldn't have stopped most of this ooze coming from Albany.

Chief on their list is reforming ethics laws, fighting corruption, opening the state's closed primary elections, enacting term limits for state legislators, streamlining the court system and codifying the rights of women.

Ms. Levenson has lectured on a variety of topics including ethics law, municipal law, school law, professional liability, housing discrimination, and civil rights law for both government and private organizations including the following:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose administration already appears to be in the crosshairs of US Attorney Preet Bharara's office, needs to deliver tougher ethics laws if he wants to avoid having his legacy tarnished by Albany's ethics morass, reform advocates said.

While each comment was big news for the constituencies following each respective issue, they are an admission by the governor that his earlier threats — to shut down the state government if ethics laws aren't tightened, and to withhold school aid increases if the teacher evaluation system isn't changed — are highly unlikely to come to pass.

Two of Cuomo's daughters were in the capitol Friday for the historic vote, a key part of their father's legislative agenda that also included capping property tax increases and strengthening ethics laws for state officials.

Cuomo said ethics laws, the reforms and the system are more important than ever as well as the character of individuals.

In 2013, the governor empaneled the commission to investigate ethical violations in government, but his higher priority was using the commission as a subpoena - packing weapon to pressure the Legislature to pass stricter ethics laws.

New York's leading good government groups gathered at Manhattan's Foley Square Wednesday to call on the New York State legislature and the governor to take immediate action to reform public ethics laws.

The Commission on Public Integrity charged in a report last year that Paterson violated ethics laws when he contradicted his staff, the Yankees and common sense by falsely claiming he always intended to pay for the tickets.

Another example of why the state's political finance and ethic laws need to get tough..

All of its members had been appointed by Gallo under a 2013 ethics law which gives the mayor sole authority to appoint and dismiss members.

Ethics regulations do require lobbyists and clients to disclose business transactions with state officials, but the 2011 ethics law appears to exclude reporting any dealings with a public official's residence.

In announcing his run for governor, for example, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said he'd push for ethics laws requiring legislators to reveal all outside income.

Bamberger says he isn't doing any lobbying for the group (he's prohibited by state ethics laws from doing so) but said the new advocacy group has retained its own lobbying firm, Bogdan, Lasky & Frazier LLC.

I was proud this month to vote in favor of a new comprehensive ethics law for Erie County.

The leader of the Common Council's Democratic majority said that he's open to compromise on a controversial ethics law that

The governor has argued that his office was only trying to help the commission — not to keep it out of politically sensitive territory but to keep Moreland's investigators from blundering in ways that would be counterproductive to the goal of getting the Legislature to pass better ethics laws.

Lawmakers» outside income — while allowed under New York's notoriously lax ethics law — was put under a new spotlight following last month's arrest of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

What I find breathtaking is that Kettner would claim that she thought the law designed to strictly limit her political conduct allowed her to conduct herself as a «private citizen» and thus not subject to judicial ethics laws even after she was sworn in as a judge.

Asked again whether he regretted his controversial decision to shut down the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, Cuomo cited ethics laws passed by the Legislature in exchange for the shutdown.

Although Trump has said that most ethics laws and rules do not apply to the president, Conway's stumble Thursday served as a reminder that staffers are nonetheless subject to those provisions.

But in recent years, as Silver resisted growing calls for tighter ethics laws in the wake of a series of earlier pubic - corruption indictments, the suspicion grew that Silver's hold on power was actually about extracting as many dollars as he could for himself from the legal business he was practicing on the side.

None of the state agencies charged with enforcing current ethics laws have done much of anything, and critics say their inaction has been a tacit blessing.

State ethics laws do not require him to provide any details about what he does, who his clients are or even if he has any clients at all.