Sentences with phrase «ethics officials»

But such a liability was not disclosed in Trump's personal financial statements filed with federal ethics officials last year.

«The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE's staff and the community of ethics officials in the federal executive branch,» Shaub wrote.

Shulkin had accepted the tickets without approval from the VA, but got the retroactive okay from ethics officials when he told them that Gosling was a friend of his wife's.

While Gross said the board took Bellone's letter «very seriously,» ethics officials said it was not considered a «formal complaint,» because the county executive did not fill out the board's complaint form.

The relevant rules were followed, and the documents were closely reviewed and approved by ethics officials at the Department of Commerce and the Office of Government Ethics.

Investigators determined she misled ethics officials by doctoring an email to get clearance for Shulkin's wife to travel with him at taxpayers» expense.

A state senator from Buffalo who announced he would not seek re-election is the subject of an inquiry by state ethics officials amid lurid allegations including sexual harassment, according to a report.

«The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE's staff and the community of ethics officials in the federal executive branch,» Mr. Shaub wrote in a letter to the president that the director posted to his Twitter account.

Charlie Brown held Santoro's job as NSF's designated ethics official for 15 years before retiring from NSF in 2007.

Jahan Wilcox, an agency spokesman, retorted, «As EPA career ethics officials stated in a memo, Administrator Pruitt's housing arrangement for both himself and family was not a gift and the lease was consistent with federal ethics regulations.»

The very next day, I met with career department officials, including a senior ethics official, to discuss some things publicly reported in the press and that might have some bearing on the issue of recusal.

The inspector general found Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and taxpayer - funded airfare for his wife for the 10 - day trip in July, and he and his chief of staff misled VA ethics officials while seeking official approval for the tickets and flights.

Shulkin told ethics officials the tennis tickets were provided by a personal friend, Victoria Gosling, an adviser for the Invictus Games, a sporting event for wounded warriors.

Federal ethics officials recently asked the EPA to investigate the ethics allegations piling up against agency head Scott Pruitt.

Grassley also has raised questions about the reassignment earlier this year of an NCI ethics official after she was admonished by an NCI official for questioning the relevance and destination of these sponsored trips.

In the next paragraph, she adds that «we would have been in a better position to take appropriate steps to resolve any conflicts issue... if an OGC ethics official had been apprised of the proposal at the time the proposal was assigned to [Strømme].»

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For some reason, Placide said, ethics officials saw their role as fighting the fight for BigLaw.

While Bruno claimed to have clearance from ethics officials and legal advice to back up his private work, the jurors said it was clear that wasn't true.

The 20 March memo was written by Karen Santoro, the agency's designated ethics official, to Margaret Cavanaugh, acting head of the directorate.

It was approved by the EPA career ethics officials.

WASHINGTON — The third most senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs is stepping down amid findings she misled ethics officials to secure approval for VA Secretary David Shulkin's wife to accompany him on taxpayer - funded trip to Europe.

Nix said that any involvement Bannon «may have had with the company is being discussed» with federal ethics officials.

«The American public needs to have confidence that ethics violations, as well as the appearance of ethics violations, are investigated and appropriately addressed,» an ethics official wrote in a new letter.

The report implies that an ethics official who had done business with my wife's company had voted on the opinion, which concluded that no conflict would exist were she to enter into a contractual relationship with a third party that might coincidentally have a contract with the county.

«an employee should seek advice from an ethics official before participating in any matter in which her impartiality could be questioned»

The ethics officials informed Woodstock Times that, pursuant to an opinion from Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, the board would vote to conduct the hearing in an executive session that would be closed to the public, including the press.

If a conflict is discovered, she said, researchers must recuse themselves in a process that's also overseen by EPA's ethics officials.

With him was David Verardo, a section head who also serves as the division's ethics official.

He added that while it will not happen immediately, the site could become a primary destination for investigative journalists or ethics officials.

«We gave Facebook ample time to comply with the law,» the ethics official said.