Sentences with phrase «federal ethics rules»

The Department promotes the professional development of its scientific staff that is consistent with Federal ethics rules, job responsibilities and existing DOT policy regarding political appointees.

The Office of Government Ethics website was down on Thursday, after White House counselor Kellyanne Conway urged people to buy Ivanka Trump's products, potentially violating federal ethics rules.

Federal ethics rules do not require government officials to sell off their investments but they must recuse themselves from matters that would affect those investments.

Presidents are exempt from federal ethics rules, though most recent holders of the office have sold off their financial holdings and put them in trusts as if the rules did apply to them.

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Under the ethics rules for federal employees and / or officials, the employees or official is required to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Today, the ethics panel charged her with breaking House rules by using her position to get federal bailout money for a bank with ties to her husband.

A congressional ethics report has recommended further investigations into allegations Rep. Tim Bishop violated House rules and federal law last year, saying there was a «substantial reason» to believe Mr. Bishop broke federal campaign finance rules.

«This is extremely troubling and the people of Western New York need immediate assurances from Collins that no House ethics rules or federal laws were broken,» DCCC spokesperson Meredith Kelly said.

(CNN) The House ethics committee is investigating New York Rep. Chris Collins, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to endorse Donald Trump's presidential campaign, for potentially violating federal law and House rules regarding insider trading.

Ms. Trump's lawyer, Jamie S. Gorelick, said that «she will file the financial disclosure forms required of federal employees and be bound by the same ethics rules that she had planned to comply with voluntarily.»

ALBANY — Just weeks after both leaders of the Legislature were convicted of federal corruption charges, lawmakers returned to the Capitol Wednesday still split on whether to enact tougher ethics rules.

WASHINGTON — There is «a substantial reason to believe» that Rep. Chris Collins violated federal law by touting the stock of an obscure Australian biotech firm based on inside information, while also possibly breaking House ethics rules by persuading National Institutes of Health officials to meet with a staffer from that company.

Tillerson would need to step down from his job at ExxonMobil and sell off about $ 45 million worth of shares before working for the State Department to comply with ethics rules affecting federal employees.

Letter to Pruitt and federal ethics officials questions whether Pruitt is violating ethics rules and breaking federal law [Continue Reading...]

The action followed NASA's denial of ATI's federal Freedom of Information Act request with NASA, seeking records detailing whether and how «global warming» activist Dr. James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behavior.

Operating as the American Tradition Institute (ATI), The Energy and Environment Legal Institute filed a federal FOIA request with NASA seeking information on how climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies «has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behaviour.»

It also noted the attorney, in a rebuttal, cited «a [then] recent federal appeals court decision holding that law firm ads showing space aliens and lawyers running at breakneck speeds did not violate ethics rules.»

That's what suggested in this story, reporting that two federal prosecutors may have breached ethics rules guarding attorney - client confidentiality by using an informant to infiltrate the defense camp and gather information.

Childress discusses a recent ruling out of a federal district court in New Jersey holding that undisclosed ghostwriting violates legal ethics rules and Rule 11 of the FRCP and, as such, «should not be permitted in federal court in New Jersey.»

Restrictive advertising rules for NY are under review by the 2nd Circuit, and a plan to implement a program for pre-publishing approval of lawyer ads in Louisiana is still winding its way through Federal court (as tweeted by La. ethics attorney Beth Alston).

A native Miamian now in his 22nd year of practice, Brian's clients are either lawyers trying to remain lawyers, law students trying to become lawyers, law firms seeking ethics opinions and compliance with various rules, regulations and statutes, or individuals and corporations facing state or federal criminal charges.

Rob Kelner is quoted by The Hill in an article regarding the imposition of stricter ethics rules on federal employees seeking jobs in the private sector.

Moreover, depending on the circumstances, a Texas lawyer advertising through keywords on internet search engines may be subject to other requirements or prohibitions imposed by federal or state law or by professional ethics rules of other jurisdictions.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of these rules, upon compliance with the requirements of this rule the supreme court may admit an individual to practice law in this state provided that such individual has furnished satisfactory evidence that he or she has graduated from a law school approved by the American Bar Association; has been admitted to practice law in another state, federal territory or commonwealth or the District of Columbia for at least 5 years; has taken and passed either the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination with a scale score of at least 85 or an equivalent course in ethics taken during his or her law school attendance; and who is the president, dean or academic director of The National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, including the director of The National Center for the Courts and Media.

Nor does the press release mention that the proposed ethics rules are already the subject of a lawsuit in Federal District Court, with the result being that the Louisiana Supreme Court has postponed implementation of the lawyer advertising rules.

Real property appraisers, like real estate practitioners, are licensed and regulated by state government agencies; but they also must operate under federal guidelines, including the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, which includes all - encompassing rules that define and govern ethics and competency.