Sentences with phrase «ethics office says»

An independent ethics office says a Tennessee congressman, Republican John Duncan Jr., may have improperly converted more than $ 100,000 from his campaign committee and leadership political action committee to personal use.

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To help ease the appearance of conflicts of interest, the company said it would not enter into any new international deals, promised to hire a compliance officer and ethics adviser to vet domestic deals, donate foreign profit from its hotels and refrain from doing anything that could be perceived as exploiting the office of the presidency.

«One of my office's top priorities is to restore New Yorkers» faith in their state government, and that means we need to arm our top ethics body with strong and effective leaders,» Schneiderman said.

Gillibrand last week declined to call for Franken's resignation, saying in a WCNY interview that the ethics investigation into the allegations should be played out and that whether he stays in office is up to him.

«He is going around the county campaigning to be the county executive by attacking everyone for being engaged in a dirty way of doing business in politics, and in his own office, blatantly, he's violating the ethics law,» Jacobs said.

State Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) and state Assemblyman Edward Braunstein (D - Bayside) said they were focusing on the state budget and ethics reform after being sworn into office last week.

«NYCOM invited him to speak on the issue of government ethics, since his office has been very active in that realm,» said Peter Baynes, executive director of the mayors group.

«Our only knowledge of the reported investigation by the District Attorney, the State ethics enforcement body, or U.S. Attorney's Office of the mayor is what has been reported in the news,» Azzopardi said.

«It's pretty clear that all of the state ethics watchdogs are not really meeting their role,» said Horner who said there's been an «unbelievable» series of scandals in the legislature and governor's office in recent years.

While the governor is clearly going big on infrastructure - with plans that could total $ 100 billion in costs, according to his office - he has promised to lead with ethics as lawmakers continue to fall to corruption convictions, trust in Albany is low, and New Yorkers say Cuomo has not done enough to clean up state government.

The woman, whom The Buffalo News has agreed not to identify, said she is angry that Hoyt left his post as regional president of Empire State Development Corp. with accolades from high state officials after she lodged complaints more than a year ago with a state ethics agency and the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

But critics have said testimony has shown ethics breaches the governor or his top staff should have known about — especially Percoco's use of his government office from May 1, 2014, to Dec. 7, 2014.

But after an ethics panel ruled the Brooklyn power broker sexually harassed several female staffers, many, including a group of men concerned about violence against women, said it's time for Lopez to leave office, CBS 2's Tony Aiello reported Wednesday.

Cuomo's office said the governor will not try to dissuade anyone unless the lawmakers agree to more ethics reforms.

«Are you saying that you blindly place someone on the ethics commission because a person was referred to your office...?»

ALBANY, N.Y. — One day after signing his fourth ethics bill into law since taking office as governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday there's still more work that's needed to be done.

Two veteran Assembly members and an official from the governor's office said they expect a deal will be struck on the popular ethics measure this legislative election year after an unprecedented string of corruption convictions within the last 12 months.

The governor's office, which has denied any wrongdoing, says it referred Ms. Cater's complaint to the public ethics commission after she refused to cooperate with the inspector general's office.

«We believe the governor's office should be participating in these disclosures and participating in the ethics reforms,» the Syracuse Republican said.

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.

Ivanka Trump's new office in the White House was cleared by White House lawyers and the federal government's ethics watchdog, press secretary Spicer said.

Astorino has said he wanted to broaden the party's appeal to not just opposing Common Core, but also highlight the need for ethics reform as well as term limits in elected offices.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman, a Democratic attorney general candidate who has proposed numerous ethics reforms during his time in the Senate, said that he would expand the public integrity unit that looks into political corruption and put one member from it in every local attorney general's office across the state.

Any cases they investigate would be referred to the attorney general, but Horner says the office does not initiate its own investigations and rarely — if ever — looks into possible ethics violations.

After months of pressure from Percoco, the government says, and after Kelly falsely told other CPV executives that he had obtained an «ethics opinion» from the governor's office approving the arrangement, the company began to pay Percoco's wife $ 7,500 per month to teach fourth graders at elementary schools in New Jersey about a nearby power plant the company was developing.

In particular, he wants it to create a state ethics control board that is independent and has «robust enforcement powers» over both the Legislature and the governor's offices.If that doesn't happen in the first six months, Mr. Cuomo says he will indeed allow Mr. Schneiderman's office to become Albany's one - stop, anti-sleaze operation.

South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the third - ranking Senate Republican, said some nominations may have been bottlenecked at the Office of Government Ethics, which helps hash out ethics agreements for government appointees.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office had a hand in the investigation that led to the conviction yesterday of now former Sen. Tim Libous, called the Binghamton Republican's political demise «sad,» and said it should reignite calls for additional ethics reform in Albany.

The town ethics board delegates the task of reviewing financial disclosure forms to an appointee of the town attorney's office, board chairman John Nagy said.

«We're not going to pass a budget, we're not going to end this session, without having changed the ethics rules that relate to what people do in terms of outside income — whether it's the level of outside income they have or, more importantly, making sure that people can't use their public office in a way to benefit themselves privately,» Morelle said.

«These officials were supposed to lead New York State's efforts to modernize technology, but my office found flagrant misconduct and that no one within OFT stepped forward to question these actions, indicating a systemic breakdown in agency ethics,» DiNapoli said.

ALBANY - Reform advocates say that when he takes office as governor Saturday, Andrew Cuomo can start fixing state government without waiting for legislative support, by using executive authority to order dozens of steps to improve ethics and openness, protect consumers and help the environment.

The state Republican Party put out a statement saying that Lacewell testified that Percoco «was in and out of the Executive Chamber, still retained his government office there and still worked on some official matters after departing state service raised a shocking breach of ethics and protocol that potentially violates the State Ethics and Codes of Conduct for employees.

The federal prosecutor during the MSNBC interview also said he never told Gov. Cuomo to clam up in regards to an investigation into the governor's office handling of a Cuomo - created Moreland anti-corruption commission and its abrupt end after the Legislature agreed to some ethics reforms.

He said voters are fed up with a chronic ethics problem that has seen more than 30 lawmakers leave office facing criminal charges or ethics allegations.

Schneiderman's office has said Trump's ethics complaint is simply an attempt to distract attention away from the Trump University lawsuit.

The ethics office also said there is «substantial reason to believe» that Collins may have been involved in tipping off Innate investors with inside information that might persuade them to invest more money in the company.

«Any ethics enforcer who comes right from the governor's office or the legislature, is going to be operating under a cloud,» Horner said.

The permanent secretary at the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam, said he had asked the prime minister's ethics adviser, Sir Alex Allan, to examine the circumstances surrounding Rudd's claim that «that's not how we operate».

Suffolk County Comptroller Joseph Sawicki, who once served as the ranking Republican on the State Assembly ethics committee and whose office reviews county contracts, said: «It appears to me that he's taken pains to hide these agreements and to avoid publicly disclosing what every other county official has to - as they should.»

Watchdog groups, however, now say the independent office has been undermined and should have the power to subpoena lawmakers and even bypass the ethics committee altogether.»

«The problem with Brenda Fitzgerald is like many in the Trump administration, she was very negligent at submitting her personal financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics and finally worked out an ethics agreement with OGE very late in her term,» Holman said.

He says that it is quite unusual for the ethics office, which has the responsibility to carry out all necessary investigations into alleged conflicts of interest, to defer to someone within a research directorate.

On the job for 18 days, Orleans school Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. said he would lay off central office staff, shore up employee ethics and improve McDonogh # 35.

They discuss the ethics and history of referral fees in the sessions and travel to the offices of interested lawyers, including non-personal injury firms where he says there's a higher chance of lawyers making referrals.

Gorelick (pictured above left) said she is «completing the work» that Kushner — US president Donald Trump's son - in - law — originally hired her to do before Trump took office, such as handling Kushner's ethics compliance, security clearance and other federal disclosures.

This being said, commitment is still valued and a strong work ethic is sought after, albeit you may be allowed to leave the office before dark!

REALTOR ® B said nothing about Ms. Q's remark, but after returning to his office filled out the paperwork necessary to file an ethics complaint against REALTOR ® P, charging her with violating Article 16, as interpreted by Standard of Practice 16 - 13.

«This is certainly not the first case where offices were shared and relatives were involved in a transaction,» says Len Brooks, a professor of business ethics at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.