Sentences with phrase «ethics violations by»

RECO (Ontario) should target the high flyers as well as newbies for random ethics violations by contacting their clients and Realtors who have done business with them on a confidentiality - protected basis.

Next, NBC recently objected to Mitt Romney's use of a «Nightly News» video clip from 1997 that showed Tom Brokaw discussing findings of ethics violations by Newt Gingrich.

«Instinct might argue that a lawyer should not be subject to termination because he or she reports ethics violations by another attorney to disciplinary authorities.»

I think you can hardly compare any alleged ethics violations by the democrats as similar to the many, many, many alleged ethics violations of the republicans.

«With ongoing federal investigations into potential ethics violations by several state lawmakers, this report highlights that there are many legal channels through which special interests exert their influence in Sacramento,» Kathay Feng, executive director of CA Common Cause, said in a press release.

Washington (CNN)- The House Ethics Committee announced Wednesday it wants more time to gather information in the investigation of alleged ethics violations by three House members - Minnesota GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, Illinois GOP Rep. Peter Roskam, and New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop.

In 2010, Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who was then the state's attorney general, named her independent counsel to investigate several alleged ethics violations by Mr. Paterson.

US Representative Charles Rangel (D — NY), who was found guilty in 2010 of eleven ethics violations by the House Ethics Committee, is making headlines again.

«Today's hearing raised more questions than it answered about why there has been no investigation into the obvious ethics violations by this prosecutor,» he said.

The NYC Department of Education overturned a principal's firing and gave her more than a year's back pay so she wouldn't file legal actions charging ethics violations by the DOE's new top lawyer, sources tell the NY Post.

Regarding lack of independence, allowing them to discuss the papers would itself be considered an ethics violation by the author, were he to then try and claim they were independently arrived at.

Not exact matches

The documents CREW cites are the same documents that were examined by Treasury's Inspector General in his review of Treasury's travel, in which he identified no violation of law, regulation, or ethics requirements,» Sayegh said.

Former CEO Mark Hurd was forced out by the board for ethics violations.

110,000,000 adult American cases of STDs are proof that violations of the Judeo Christian ethic do not go unnoticed by those laws as inviolable as gravity.

«On May 24 2011, Fifa executive committee member and Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer reported to Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke possible violations of the Fifa code of ethics allegedly committed by officials,» a Fifa statement read.

It is simply not credible that Mr. Agata, who was Governor Cuomo's lawyer and represented him on ethics issues, can objectively investigate potential ethical violations by the governor or his political enemies.

He is seen as increasingly vulnerable in this campaign due to the growing Latino majority in his district and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an independent.

We believe this is a big mistake and further undermine the credibility of an agency that has struggled to independently and effectively investigate and enforce violations of state ethics laws by the governor, legislature, state employees, and -LSB-...]

The state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which polices violations of state ethics law, is effectively controlled by Cuomo's office.

Wu says while a grand jury will have to determine whether any actual crimes were committed, he says alleged interference by Cuomo's staff in an ethics commission sending out subpoenas is potentially in violation of several state statutes, including conspiracy to perform official misconduct and the hindering of prosecution.

(CNN)- The House Ethics Committee will hold a formal hearing on alleged violations by Rep. Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat forced to step aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this year over ethics questions, a senior Democratic source told CNN on Thursday.

In Harlem, where 20 - term incumbent Congressman Charlie Rangel was challenged by Adam Clayton Powell IV, voters stuck with Rangel despite his upcoming hearing over 13 alleged ethics violations.

After a distinguished career, he embarrassed himself by failing to pay taxes and committing other ethics violations, which resulted in a rare censure from the House.

The Court of Appeals has accepted a determination by the Commission on Judicial Conduct that Alan Simon, a judge in Ramapo, Spring Valley and Hillburn, should be removed from the bench for violations of judicial ethics.

Blatter was suspended for 90 days by FIFA on October 8 and then banned from the game for eight years last month for ethics violations over a # 1.35 m payment FIFA made to Michel Platini with Blatter's approval in 2011.

In 2010, Rangel was censured by his House colleagues for a raft of ethics violations, including failing to pay taxes on rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic.

Since his last election, he has been bludgeoned by a Congressional censure over ethics violations, health woes, a newly configured district that is less favorable to him and an ambitious and credible challenger in state Sen. Adriano Espaillat (D).

In 2010, amid an inquiry into possible House ethics violations, Rangel held a similar birthday fund - raiser which was attended by Andrew Cuomo, who was campaigning for governor at the time.

Rangel, 83, a Korean War veteran and dean of the New York congressional delegation, has struggled since being found guilty of House ethics violations and censured by the chamber in 2010.

The «State government's ethics laws are policed by several separate entities, each without the independence necessary to ensure that violations are fully and fairly investigated and prosecuted. . .

The commission investigates potential violations of state ethics laws by state employees and elected officials.

Harlem's legendary Rep. Charles Rangel was censured by the House of Representatives for a series of ethics violations, including failing to pay taxes on rental revenue from a home he owned in the Dominican Republic.

(CNN)- Gov. Bob McDonnell, already under fire for reported ethics violations, apparently took a flight to the Final Four basketball tournament in April 2011 that was sponsored by one of his political donors, according to the Virginia - Pilot.

Fact 1: Republicans control both houses of Congress Fact 2: A Republican controlled ethics committee voted THREE TIMES to censure Tom Delay for ethics violations Fact 3: The Republican leadership, not liking this, removed the Republican on the committee who was voting to censure Delay and replaced him with a Republican who accepted Delay's leftover campaign money for his own campaign Fact 4: The Republicans further tried to shield Delay by making a change to the rules to allow a Congressman under indictment to retain their leadership post, relenting only when Democrats had a field day trumpeting that little change in the media

However, when the ethics commission was formed in June, 2011, the accompanying announcement said JCOPE would indeed «have jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of law by legislators and legislative employees ``, and deliver its findings to the Legislative Ethics Commission.

EPS serves the unity, ethics and integrity of our local and global communities and Sangats by working with appropriate entities and individuals to resolve complaints and violations of our codes of ethics.

Any member may be suspended or expelled for the violation of this code of ethics by a majority vote of the Board of Directors of the CKCSC of Canada.

This would suggest that the panel saw no even arguable ethics violation in the case presented by the disciplinary counsel.

Though two jurisdictions, New York and Connecticut, will allow claims by lawyers terminated in apparent retaliation for reporting a firm's (or its lawyers) ethics violations, at least two other jurisdictions do not.

The continued focus on enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on conduct by affiliated entities of US corporations impacts our investigations work, as we know that ethics issues that arise need to be viewed not just as potential violations of local law and not just as local employment - or labor - issues, but need to be reviewed and addressed with the scrutiny applicable in the US under our corporate ethics standard.

First, Hull's open ended way of asking business — by seeking input on how he can help them — allows him to steer clear of ethics violations because he's not selling a specific, he's asking how he can be most useful were he to represent the company.

It may also seek to prevent charges of violation of local attorney advertising rules by containing the right buzzwords for the local ethics rules.

It appears that Edmond is serious about making ethics at Best Buy «transparent,» to the point that she regularly posts about (and seeks comments on) the latest ethical or internal violations committed by Best Buy employees, and about some of the company's more aggressive ethical guidelines.

He finds support in ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 94 - 389, which he calls «the most comprehensive treatment that I have found on when contingency fees are appropriate and how agreements should be presented and entered into by lawyers to avoid ethics violations, while fulfilling fiducial duties.»

I believe that this matter does present serious ethics violations — but by Kelly, not Frey.

By the mid-1970s, the problem became even more serious after several Florida appellate judges were charged with violations of ethics.

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While a single private admonition by itself will not likely interfere with a lawyer's career, it may result in subsequent ethics violations being treated more seriously by the Director's Office.

If professional ignorance of trauma - informed care leads to harm to the child and parent in their bonding following divorce, such as by preventing or delaying their bonding through inadequate assessment, inaccurate diagnosis, and ineffective treatment, then this would be a violation of Standard 3.04 of the APA ethics code.

As a clinical psychologist, I am required by Standards 1.04 and 1.05 of the APA ethics code to take steps when I become aware of possible ethical violations by other psychologists.