Sentences with phrase «ethics report found»

After multiple women accused Assemblyman Vito Lopez of sexual harassment, such as groping them and making sexual remarks at work, a 2013 state ethics report found Silver failed to investigate and tried to cover up the allegations.

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Yet another Trump administration official is facing ethics questions after an inspector general's report found that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets, and that his chief of staff misled officials about Shulkin's wife's travel to Europe last summer.

The report released on Monday by lobbying and ethics regulators found the top lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.

The report released by ethics and lobbying regulators on Thursday found the 2015 lobbying compensation was a 17 percent increase in New York over 2014.

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.

Assemblyman Micah Kellner did not seek re-election this year after an ethics committee report found he interacted inappropriately with members of his personal staff during his time in the Assembly.

Potential proof is right in the ethics committee report, which found that Lopez committed «multiple incidents of unwelcome physical conduct» with one young woman who worked in his office.

Although the inquiry by Sue Gray, the director general of the propriety and ethics team, found Maltby to be «plausible», Gray found one breach of the ministerial code — his outright denials when a Sunday newspaper reported that pornography had been found on his computer.

A coalition of good - government groups on Monday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to not stock a review commission charged with reporting on the workings of the ethics regulators with the «usual suspects» who will rubberstamp any findings.

As reported in Politico New York, there is a second way, other than the state ethics board, for a curious chief executive to find out if his top aides represented outside clients that might pose a potential conflict of interest.

Ride - hailing firm Uber Technologies was the top lobbying spender for the first half of 2017, a report released Wednesday by the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

However, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported a state ethics panel separately found Lopez violated the public trust and could face penalties.

Quinn made her remarks one day after a state ethics report looking into accusations of sexual harassment at the hands of Lopez found the embattled assemblyman did not violate any laws.

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

(CNN)- Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated state ethics laws by letting supporters set up a legal defense fund to help her battle ethics complaints, a preliminary report on the issue has found.

The Hill reported on Friday that House ethics panel found that Rep. Gregory Meeks (D - N.Y.) was not guilty of accepting an improper loan in 2010.

Such a disclosure would be required under Gov. Cuomo's new proposed ethics bill and was the focus of a report in Monday's Post that found that Skelos — unlike Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — won't say whether he's representing private legal clients with business before the state.

The NY Post reports that Co-op City Councilman Andy King has been ordered to take sensitivity training after an ethics panel found Monday that he paid «unwanted attention» to a female staffer.

At no time between those interviews and the June 26 letter reporting the Ethics Board's findings and recommended penalties, which include public apologies for violating the ethics law, were the council members either informed that ethics panel had found merit in the complaint or given an opportunity to respond to allegations lodged by other witnesses.

Ossorio noted Albany's «long and storied history» of sexual harassment scandals among state legislators, including the late Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez, who was forced to resign in 2013 after an ethics panel report found he'd harassed several women who worked on his staff.

ALBANY — The state ethics watchdog has forwarded a report of its findings to two legislative panels for possible sanctions after ending its probe of the Assembly's handling of sexual harassment allegations involving a senior member.

The eight - member ethics panel that convicted him — four Democrats and four Republicans — now will write what is likely to be a stinging report to amplify its findings.

The workshop was grounded in a recognition that many research ethics issues are relevant to the practice and application of science, from developing hypotheses and designing a protocol, to data management and analysis, to reporting findings and advising others on the uses of the work, and that integrating ethics instruction in the context of performing those various stages of research can be an effective strategy for educating future researchers.

Our Philadelphia founding member, Helen Gym, shared news reports that her group, Parents United for Public Education, and others have filed an ethics complaint against the William Penn Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group, alleging that BCG was acting as a lobbyist when it developed a plan for the School District of Philadelphia including major school closures and charter expansion, funded through and at the direction of the foundation.

In reviewing major comprehensive government reports on climate engineering it was all too often that I would search «ethics» or «public attitudes» and find only a single page or paragraph of hundreds of pages dedicated to these issues.

After the first year, the Report finds, many students are left doubting that ethics or morality have any relevance to professional success; and a mandatory upper - level course in Professional Responsibility is too little too late.

Serving as a Research Associate for Endometrin Pharmaceuticals, conducting research into new drugs designed to treat type 2 diabetes; creating trial protocols, working closely with ethics committees, verifying data, and writing detailed reports of findings.

The allegations, findings, and decisions rendered in ethics and arbitration hearings are confidential and should not be reported or published by the Board, any member of a tribunal, or any party under any circumstances except those established in the Code of Ethics and Arbitration Manual of the National Association as from time to time amended.