Sentences with phrase «ethics panel»

The state's ethics panel finds a total of $ 220 million was spent to influence the governor and members of the legislature.

The charges were heard before a specially appointed ethics panel.

WHO hasn't announced who will be on its ad hoc ethics panel, which the agency says may meet as early as next week.

But while Donovan found no criminal culpability, a report released by a state ethics panel found Lopez violated the public trust.

The city's ethics panel on Thursday reinforced existing rules on the use of Twitter and other social media accounts by elected officials — including barring them from using the accounts...

After a jury deadlocked on corruption charges, Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was admonished by a congressional ethics panel for accepting gifts.

«The recent cases highlight the growing fissure between the independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) and the long - standing House ethics panel controlled by members of Congress.

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson on Tuesday vetoed the Legislature's attempt to create new ethics panels to monitor elected officials and to require greater financial disclosure by lawmakers, halting for now an overhaul of the rules meant to curb political corruption.

A government reform group is calling for a state ethics panel report to be made public, one day after the panel investigating charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D - Brooklyn) sent a report to the legislative ethics committee.

In the past week, three agencies announced they were investigating Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera for putting her lovers on the public payroll, and a state ethics panel charged Assemblyman Vito Lopez with sexually harassing female aides.

Impeachment push from Burnam continues as ethics panel awaits response from embattled judge Fort Worth Star Telegram Feb 21, 2009

Published reports in the New York Post and New York Daily News say U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has subpoenaed records from a state ethics panel created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature.

The written summons to appear before the five - member ethics panel illustrated a deficiency in the law, said McKenna at the meeting and in subsequent interviews, because it did not specify the nature of the complaint against him.

A judicial ethics panel of the Massachusetts court system has determined that a judge may ethically maintain a Twitter account, but only within certain boundaries, and that a judge must be particularly cautious about selecting accounts to follow on Twitter.

Wozniak had an affair with a member of her legislative staff and then retaliated against him after he broke off the affair, an Assembly ethics panel concluded March 9.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a New York state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

A congressional ethics panel found «substantial reason to believe» that Rep. Chris Collins, a Buffalo Republican and key Trump supporter, broke federal law through his relationship with an Australian biotech firm.

When Kent and Garcia were in office in 2014, the union's ethics panel determined that Lee's actions «did not meet the legal definition of misappropriation of funds.»

Psychologists need approval from ethics panels before conducting experiments and and usually those involved are volunteers and afterwards they fully debriefed.

The lines of connection between Cuomo and the people who have filled the top staff position at JCOPE have led to repeated criticism that the governor holds excessive influence over the ostensibly independent ethics panel — a charge the administration has repeatedly denied.

At the same time, the embattled governor acknowledged his fate rests in the hands of the state legislature, which by many accounts is set to begin the impeachment process when it re-convenes in January, pending the outcome of a state ethics panel investigation into Sanford's travel expenses.

Franken resigned after a Senate ethics panel looked into accusations from eight women who said he had groped and forcibly kissed them.

After» the 9 - member Alabama judicial ethics panel voted unanimously to remove Moore from office», how could he ever be a judge in Alabama again, let alone Chief Justice??

Susan Lerner, with Common Cause, testified at a recent ethics panel hearing in favor of retroactive disclosure of lobby group donors.

Among the most recent ethics panel report, the first indication that there may have been a problem with Lee's purchases started as early as 2012 when a new treasurer for the division, Teresa Mayer - Gamboli, noted a lack of documentation.

It was, after all, during the same time period that the U.S. attorney who is now investigating Percoco and others in the governor's administration was probing the premature closure of Cuomo's Moreland Act ethics panel.

Maryland's Senate president says he is referring the case of a state senator facing federal bribery and obstruction of justice charges to a state legislative ethics panel.

In a statement, Mr. Kellner said he did not accept Mr. Silver's assertions nor those of an Assembly ethics panel that was critical of his behavior, calling them «factually inaccurate.»

Talking to Bartiromo on Sunday, Cuomo stuck by his position that the defunct ethics panel was a success, and that while legislative leaders didn't enact all of the ethics reform he had sought, lawmakers still approved a package of laws that moves things forward.

Spence wanted the affair turned over law enforcement but a union ethics panel whose members are allied with Kent disagreed.

In August, a South Carolina Bar ethics panel issued an opinion concluding that Avvo Legal Services (or at least something that sure sounded like it) violates the prohibition of sharing fees with a non-lawyer.

A Democrat on the Texas Supreme Court is demanding an apology and an inquiry by a judicial - ethics panel following the Republican governor's accusation that the judge has already decided how he will rule on a key school - finance case working its way to the high court.

It notes that most ethics panels have concluded that unlicensed lawyers may perform legal work so long as they are supervised by a licensed attorney.

ALBANY — A congressional ethics panel Thursday found «substantial reason to believe» that an upstate congressman and key Trump supporter broke federal law.

Not all grey beards on university ethics panels are like Gleik.

And that raises a critical question: Can religious conservatives learn to love a man who is twice divorced, carried on an affair while criticizing Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky and battled House ethics panel allegations throughout his four years as Speaker of the House?

As late as the day before the House ethics panel announced its charges, Arcuri advocated a wait - and - see approach to Rangel, saying it was up to «the ethics committee and the voters to determine his fate.»

Rob Astorino is working to keep heat on Gov. Andrew Cuomo over reporting the governor interfered with an Albany ethics panel.

The case will now go to trial before a separate ethics panel that will rule as to whether it can be «proved by clear and convincing evidence» that Rangel violated House ethics rules.

The current ethics panel known as the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, created in 2011, would be replaced by the Independent State Commission on Public Ethics.

As a report from a state ethics panel reportedly detailing his sexual harassment of female staffers was sent last week to the Legislature, the office of Assemblyman Vito Lopez in a statement today announced that the Brooklyn Democrat has pneumonia for the second time in nine months.

The House ethics panel begins hearing the case on Sept. 13, the day before the Democratic primary.

The new format benefits Rangel, who is under investigation by a House of Representative ethics panel, challenger Joyce Johnson said Monday.

A former North Carolina Supreme Court judge has filed complaints with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and a New York state ethics panel alleging that taxpayer - funded ads Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has run in North Carolina violated the Hatch Act by interfering with the gubernatorial and legislative races...

A state ethics panel fined two fundraisers for Mayor Bill de Blasio's defunct political nonprofit.