Sentences with phrase «ethics officer of»

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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.

Kathleen Edmond, the company's chief ethics officer, maintains a blog that educates employees on handling ethical quandaries, and the company provides a number of channels for reporting problems that are more welcoming to its young workforce.

«You don't buy tobacco stocks when you are the head of the CDC,» Richard Painter, a former chief ethics officer under President George W. Bush, told Politico.

Corzine also nominated Oliver Quinn, Prudential Financial's vice president and chief ethics officer, as vice chairman of the board.

He previously was a partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Department, and senior counsel at the Justice Department.John Roth joined the firm as chief compliance and ethics officer, with responsibility for ensuring that the company remains in compliance with the evolving legal landscape.

We intend to adopt a written code of business conduct and ethics that will apply to our directors, officers and employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions.

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

A code of ethics will be made available to every government officer, which will include guidelines for when the officer has a duty to act as a whistleblower.

Another provision would apply much of the ethics provisions from the public officers law to state procurement officials.

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former top aide — Percoco, now on trial for bribery — broke the state's public officers law.

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Governor Cuomo and his top aide, Joe Percoco, now on trial for bribery, broke the state's public officers law.

But Martins, 50, of Old Westbury, doesn't see why having an ethics officer who answers to the county executive and whose budget is dependent on that official is a problem.

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.

In January, the governor unveiled a «comprehensive package» of ethics and good government reforms, which included appointing a chief procurement officer, expanding the Freedom of Information Law to the state legislature, and closing the «LLC loophole,» which essentially allows corporations to exceed campaign donation limits.

«He is an attorney and he is an officer of the court and there are ground rules and rules of ethics that govern his behavior - and clearly he has violated that,» Espaillat said.

The ethics refresher was ordered as the burgeoning federal probe into police corruption has resulted in the transfers of nine officers, including eight high - level supervisors, many of them stripped of their guns and badges, for their dealings with two wealthy Brooklyn businessmen who are also large donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio and were on his Inauguration Team.

Following eight months of calls for ethics reform from Blakeman and King Sweeney, the board also passed 6 - 1 legislation concerning an inspector general / compliance officer, who would monitor possible waste and corruption within town government.

JCOPE spokesman Walter McClure said it was «routine for JCOPE staff and the executive director to speak with executive and legislative officials, ethics officers and counsels and others from state agencies, and lobbyists and their clients as part of the commission's mandate to provide ethics guidance.»

As far back as a student leader in my school days, I was once arrested and charged for inciting students, and here we are, an officer of the law is defiling his code of ethics and Ghana is expected to believe there is nothing wrong with what this gentleman has begun, which is a time - bomb; I WILL PETITION THE IGP, IF NOTHING IS DONE WITHIN THE NEXT 72 HOURS on this gentleman.

In a release signed the Public Relations Officers of the group, Mumuni Believer Likpalmor called on the Disciplinary Committee of the umbrella family to probe extensively into the case and sanction any culprit according to the code and ethics depicted in the party's constitution.

A man who has taught a course in law and ethics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice is criticizing two New York City police officers, saying they unlawfully handcuffed and searched him after he was locked out on the roof of his building in Hamilton Heights.

The ethics office — an independent, nonpartisan entity charged with reviewing allegations of misconduct against members, officers and staff — is concentrating on his investments in Innate Immunotherapeutics.

And Heastie says the Assembly has already taken a number of steps, including more disclosure of outside income, the hiring of a new Assembly ethics officer, and closing the LLC campaign finance loophole.

A government ethics reform bill, jointly passed by the state Legislature Monday for a second time, amends the state constitution and allows the state to reduce or revoke the pension of a public officer that has been convicted of a crime related to his or her official duties.

They might remember that human rights exist, and that police officers should have a code of ethics.

The Commission oversees compliance by public officers with ethics laws and by lobbyists with the state laws that govern lobbying in order to avoid conflicts of interest on the part of those holding elected office or public employment in the State of New York.

Buffalo Police officers will now be required to take part in an at least 21 hours of ethics, diversity, and use - of - force training per year.

A case involving a member of the Woodstock Town Board has drawn attention to the local ethics law, which seeks to establish standards of conduct for town officers, employees, and consultants, and to procedures followed by the volunteer board that administers and enforces the statute.

Holding public office or employment is a public trust, and as one safeguard of that trust, the people require Erie County's officers and employees to adhere to a code of ethics.

Provisions of Section 71 - 3 of the ethics law prohibit town officers or employees from representing any private interest before any town agency and from appearing before any agency except on their own behalf or that of the town.

The setting was a public hearing on proposed changes to various sections of the ethics law, including those covering political solicitation and the acceptance of gifts by town officers and employees.

An ethics opinion on public officers seeking outside employment states that public officers can not take gifts from contractors and lobbyists, and the definition of a gift is broad.

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.

The ethics head for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Caren Z. Turner, was forced to resign after a video emerged of her berating police officers during Easter weekend.

The College of Policing, which sets standards for serving officers through an official code of ethics, said that it expected the ethical code that the two officers signed in connection with their policing career to be upheld after they depart the force.

To have the USDA find that an organization as large and complex as AGI is in full compliance during such a comprehensive inspection further demonstrates that Alpha Genesis provides superior care to the monkeys at its facilities, and reflects the dedication and strong work ethic of the staff who do this important and challenging work,» according to Dr. Greg Westergaard, AGI President and Chief Executive Officer.

Members, who have been appointed for the length of the pilot project, are: Eric Schadt, Ph.D. (Chair), chief scientific officer, Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, Calif.; Kevin K. Brown, M.D., professor and vice chairman, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver; Vivian G. Cheung, M.D., professor, pediatrics and genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Philadelphia; Ross Hardison, Ph.D., professor, biochemistry and molecular biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Allan Jones, Ph.D., chief executive officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle; Rebecca Pentz, Ph.D., professor of research ethics, department of hematology - oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta; David L. Rimm, M.D., Ph.D., professor, pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn..

(4) The strength of a code of militaristic ethics can be inferred from the unquestioning obedience of Nazi officers and officials, who follow orders blindly and prefer suicide to cowardly surrender.

The noble, honest police officer with a loving family waiting for him at home, the veteran detective with a nose for picking up what most walk passed, the criminal with ethics and rules that he refuses to break and their inevitable clash of bullets and body bags.

Lawyers and ethics officers from the department did most of that work, although four career and four political staff members also reviewed the applicants to make sure they had expertise in the four school improvement areas emphasized in Race to the Top.

(Kemble, New Paltz schools to discuss proposed new starting times (Jan. 22, 2017) Daily Freeman News; McMahon, New Paltz joins growing number of districts to consider starting school later (Jan. 5, 2017) N.Y. Upstate; Liu, New Paltz school district debates later start times (Jan. 4, 2016) Times Herald - Record; Staff, New Paltz seeks feedback on later start times for school day (Oct. 15, 2016) Hudson Valley One; Nani, Hudson confidential: New Newburgh ethics board to elect officers (Oct. 6, 2014) Times Herald - Record.)

AAC's chief executive officer is Tony Helton, a charter leader who sat on the state's Charter School Advisory Board until October, shortly after some questioned the ethics of AAC's move to take over a troubled Charlotte - area charter in 2017.

After the tragic death of his child and the dissolution of his marriage, Garrett — regarded as an honest, straight - arrow officer — left the SDPD to become an ethics investigator, looking into the activities of his former colleagues.

In addition, the Trust has adopted a code of ethics (the «Trust Code»), which applies only to the Trust's executive officers to ensure that these officers promote professional conduct in the practice of corporate governance and management.

The Trust, the Adviser and the Distributor have each adopted codes of ethics (each a «Code») under Rule 17j - 1 under the 1940 Act that governs the personal securities transactions of their board members, officers and employees who may have access to current trading information of the Trust.

Having spent time as a Probation Officer in Indiana, a Volunteer Coordinator in Argentina, and an AmeriCorps Tutor in Seattle, it wasn't until after taking a course on the ethics of climate change that her career path and passions would converge into action on climate change.

Halls of Shame go against ALL Green Party ethics and policies (a relative is a press officer for the Greens and former editor of Greenworld and a parliamentary candidate, a very nice person that is truly green, this reflects on all the grass root activists who do have the best intentions)

In preparing the list, Ethisphere asked executives, general counsel and compliance officers at some of the selected companies to comment on how they promote ethics within their organizations.

Among others, Mr. Ferdinand's experience includes, appellate litigation; bankruptcy adversary proceedings; bid protests, debarments, and appeals; breach of contract and Uniform Commercial Code claims; broker disputes; commercial landlord - tenant actions, including commercial evictions; condominium association litigation; consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices act claims; corporate governance; directors» and officers» claims; ethics and professional liability; health law; injunctions; insurance issues; lien claims, including commercial and residential construction liens; planning board actions; post-judgment collection; restrictive covenants; shareholder and partnership disputes; and shareholder derivative claims.

Joseph Garin is consulted nationally on the defense of professional liability claims, ethics, employment, insurance coverage disputes, director and officer claims, and risk management.