Sentences with phrase «ethics watchdog»

He can ensure enforcement by a truly independent ethics watchdog with the resources necessary to identify and prosecute those who violate state laws.

He favors crafting a compromise over installing a county ethics watchdog.

The state's ethics watchdog misses evidence of possible misconduct in its own records, and some evidence goes missing.

It ain't over'til the state's top ethics watchdog panel howls.

David Grandeau, a former state ethics watchdog who's now a private compliance attorney and frequent online gadfly, raised a red flag in a blog post Wednesday morning: «Who was Lacewell working for when she vetted these contributions?»

Heastie (D - Bronx) selected former Assembly Counsel Jim Yates to serve as one of his representatives on the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state's top ethics watchdog agency.

For his part, Horner said NYPIRG and others would like to see more open and independent process for state contracting, campaign donation limits on those seeking or with state contracts and a new, independent ethics watchdog agency.

Of course, the companies giving to the inauguration could be significantly affected by the Trump team's policy proposals — and while that could be said of any business, it's still difficult for ethics watchdogs to overlook.

Many government and private ethics watchdogs said he should have gone further, divesting himself of assets that could cause a conflict of interest.

Updated 8:56 p.m. President Donald Trump filed his annual financial disclosure to a government ethics watchdog on Tuesday, but it's not yet clear whether he reported reimbursing his attorney for payments made to Stormy Daniels or when the public will see the document.

Horner wants to see a new ethics watchdog where «the appointees aren't captives,» a bill to restrict legislators» outside income, and legislation to end the LLC loophole.

Updated 8:56 p.m. President Donald Trump filed his annual financial disclosure to a government ethics watchdog on Tuesday, but it's not yet clear whether he reported reimbursing his attorney for payments made to Stormy Daniels or when the public will see the document.

New York's top ethics watchdog in Albany will once again be led by a former aide to Gov. Cuomo, selecting Seth Agata to become its next executive director.

DiNapoli, a Democrat, has used the pension fund to throw some political weight around when it comes to social causes — think of the Chevron lawsuit, which is being challenged by former ethics watchdog David Grandeau, and the plan to divest from firearm manufacturers.

Canada Edmonton law firm files $ 15 - million class action lawsuit over E. coli contamination, CBC News Toronto police seeking woman who threw hot liquid on Starbucks employee, Toronto Star Ontario ethics watchdog reprimands Patrick Brown for failing to disclose $ 375,000 loan, rental income, Globe and Mail

Canada Edmonton law firm files $ 15 - million class action lawsuit over E. coli contamination, CBC News Toronto police seeking woman who threw hot liquid on Starbucks employee, Toronto Star Ontario ethics watchdog reprimands Patrick Brown for failing to disclose $ 375,000 loan, rental income, Globe and Mail

Cuomo was pushed by ethics watchdogs this past legislative session to focus on government reform measures, many of which stood little chance of passing in the Assembly and Senate.

Cuomo on Wednesday signed a bill into law he says curbs that impact, requiring new disclosure for non-profit entities that engage in political activity, require the lobbyists and consultants of candidates be disclosed and limit coordination between traditional campaigns and PACs, but the new law is getting a thumbs down from ethics watchdogs.

Sampson's sole pick to the newly created ethics watchdog was a colorful and unpredictable Brooklyn attorney with ties to questionable figures, including imprisoned Brooklyn political boss Clarence Norman.

State ethics watchdog JCOPE slapped $ 270,000 in fines on two firms that figured prominently in the corruption trials of disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A former ethics watchdog who gained attention this year for his provocative criticism of Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been hired by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as an ethics consultant at a rate of $ 10,000 a month.

Hours before Cuomo's office announced he had signed the bill, a coalition of the state's prominent ethics watchdogs called on him to veto the legislation — an unlikely move given the governor had proposed the bill.

Sen. Jeff Klein, leader of the chamber's Independent Democratic Conference, asked the state's ethics watchdog entity to investigate a former staffer's allegations that he forcibly kissed her outside a Lark Street bar in 2015 — and incident he insists did not occur.

When New York's former legislative leaders were both convicted on corruption counts in 2015, the state's ethics watchdogs predicted a watershed change of Albany's culture.

The state's leading ethics watchdogs for the executive branch, lobbying, the legislative branch, and campaign finance system are far too beholden to the political elites that run the state.

Among his recommendations, Astorino favors switching elected officials from the defined - benefit pension plan to a defined - contribution plan; replacing the per diem system for lawmaker expenses to one requiring stricter bookkeeping; and scrapping the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics in favor of a new independent ethics watchdog appointed by the judiciary.

Perry's veto cut $ 7.5 million in funding to the state's ethics watchdog housed in the county district attorney's office.

After a week of silence, Sheldon Silver spoke out Tuesday as a state ethics watchdog appears to be starting up an investigation.

Critics and ethics watchdogs blasted the nonprofit Campaign for One New York as a slush fund for the mayor.

After press reports from the trial, Binghamton mayor Matt Ryan — a Democrat and political rival — filed a formal complaint with the state's designated ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Question: Did the state's ethics watchdog at that time, the Commission on Public Integrity, approve this travel?

The newly - constituted ethics watchdog commission will make the call about which groups fall into that category.

The head of the state's lobbying and ethics watchdog declined to discuss how it failed to flag crucial information that's part of the federal case against a former Cuomo administration official, but said its staff has learned from the revelations.

Dick Dadey, executive director of the good - government group Citizens Union, said the action shows JCOPE — the first ethics watchdog to have independent oversight over the Legislature — works.

The state's top ethics watchdog wants to slug Gov. Paterson with a $ 96,375 fine for allegedly shaking...

November 30, 2016 • In an odd sequence of events, the federal ethics watchdog praised Trump in a series of snarky tweets for allegedly deciding to divest his businesses — something he hasn't specifically promised.

Medical ethics watchdogs are beginning to take note...

A campaign ethics watchdog and a political group are now calling on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the FBI to investigate those connections because they believe the entanglements between the Mercers, the super PAC and the Trump campaign are illegal.

The acting chairman of the state's lobbying and ethics watchdog panel said at a monthly meeting that «comprehensive lobbying regulations» crafted by its staff would indeed have the force and effect of law.

Donald Trump has asked an Albany court to force the state's top ethics watchdog agency to take action on his complaint against Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

At least two of New York's Republican House members — Reps. John Katko and Claudia Tenney — said they voted «no» on the secretive plan to effectively do away with the independent ethics watchdog of Congress.

New Yorkers spend millions of dollars for state ethics watchdogs, yet it has consistently been federal prosecutors who have brought justice to Albany.

Silver's other legal work, for a separate firm that handled property tax assessment appeals, was unknown to the public until a year ago: Prosecutors successfully argued that Silver received legal fees from real estate developers — including Glenwood Management, the state's most generous political donor — that had extensive business before the Legislature, and did his best to conceal the arrangement from ethics watchdogs.

So, Lopez is more or less history at this point, even though a criminal probe by the Staten Island district attorney and investigation by Albany's ethics watchdog JCOPE have yet to get underway.

This week the new ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, picked a new executive director.

A government ethics watchdog Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission after audio from a secretly recorded conversation implied the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tipped the scales in favor of their preferred candidate, and may have violated campaign finance laws in the process.

The 2011 law that created the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) to be the top ethics watchdog in the state contained a proviso that the body would be periodically reviewed to find ways to improve its functioning.

We did find some interesting files, most of which were in a box of records that contained the daily schedules and notebooks of Ellen Biben, Cuomo's former public integrity chief and now the state's top ethics watchdog, that contained some interesting — though not particularly explosive — materials.

If he's confirmed for the job, Delrahim, a former partner at the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, will have to work with the government's ethics watchdogs to set out a plan for when he has to recuse himself.

In the meantime, the PIC has been gutted, and there's no ethics watchdog patrolling the beat in Albany.