Sentences with phrase «former public official»

Steak dinners, premium Yankees tickets and a steady supply of cash came at the expense of the constituents this former public official pledged to represent.»

By virtue of your service as a former public official, you should know better.

The state Public Officers Law that covers lobbying says no former public official «who has served as an officer or any employee in the executive chamber of the governor shall within a period of two years after termination of such services appear or practice before any state agency.»

The C.D. Howe Institute's National Council brings together a distinguished group of Canadian business leaders, academics, former public officials, and other experts to provide strategic perspectives relevant to the Institute's overall research program.

Section 1 allows suspension of the entry into the US, as immigrants or non-immigrants of public officials or former public officials accused of grand corruption, which has or had serious adverse effects on the national interests of the United States.

The Senate GOP, meanwhile, is knocking Kaminsky for appearing in a «shocking video» in which he extols the virtues of relieving former public officials convicted of corruption of their pension benefits.

There hasn't been a lot of movement on ethics reform in Albany, as the legislative leaders remain at odds on key provisions like banning outside income and stripping pensions from convicted former public officials.

So there was a bittersweet feeling in the air at Mohonk Mountain House as the Gardiner Democratic Committee gathered community activists, current and former public officials, staff from various land trusts and environmental organizations and other local luminaries to review some highlights of Hinchey's career and give him a sentimental sendoff.

They would lose the talents and insights of «lay practitioners» like poet Maya Angelou, journalist William Raspberry, or former public officials such as Alan Simpson, Julian Bond, and Al Gore.

The price for having former public officials advocating for school reform is that we must every so often be subjected to a book like this one.

Not exact matches

He can only regain credibility if he abandons such public naivete, said Steve Sestanovich, a senior fellow for Russian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former State Department official.

«If you are in a position of public trust, and you talk to, meet, or collude with a foreign power» while trying to subvert normal state channels, «you are, in the eyes of the FBI and CIA, a traitor,» said Glenn Carle, a former top counterterrorism official at the CIA.

Before the hotel was open to the public, it was the official guesthouse for the Shanghai government and foreign dignitaries, including former U.S. president Richard Nixon.

The nonpartisan National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials had started a public campaign to convince Trump to nominate former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, a Republican, to the Agriculture post.

Bollore, whose logistics empire is a powerhouse in former French colonies across West Africa, is suspected of corrupting foreign public officials and complicity in corruption, his lawyer has said.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

20.02.18... The Estonian state needs to understand the necessity of a state reform that would cut the number of officials exercising public authority by half, prominent lawyer and former Minister of Justice Jüri Raidla said in a speech at a meeting dedicated to the centennial of the Republic of Estonia on Monday.

«It's about time that our public officials started telling us the truth,» said one former Trump adviser who remains close to the White House.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

NEW LENOX — Two former New Lenox Park District officials have called a meeting Thursday to gauge public concern about park board operations.

The Chicago - based Thomas More Society, on behalf of former Arlington Heights resident Jim Finnegan, sent a letter to Park District officials and village leaders this week asking that a privately funded Nativity scene be allowed in the public North School Park.

A former MP for Afigya Sekyere West constituency Albert Kan - Dapaah has lashed out at public officials who sanctioned the contentious Gh cents 3.6 million contract to spray and rebrand buses.

Former Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, with her N225m bulletproof BMW car scandal, had a dose of what Dino could do in making a scapegoat of a public official if the act fits the plot.

The two men who oversaw prosecution of the pay - to - play pension fund scandal that resulted in former comptroller Alan Hevesi's jail sentence today both said the penalty should serve as a warning against other public officials seeking favors and gifts while in office.

The five Democratic AG candidates are meeting today for a public forum in Manhattan that is sponsored by City Hall News and features opening remarks by former Spitzer administration official Avi Schick.

FBI officals confim that former Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is un custody after turning himself into federal officials earlier this morning on public corruption charges.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

Karen DeWitt, a public radio correspondent, asked the Democratic politician what the state «could do differently» amid a wave of allegations of sexual harassment and assault against prominent men in media and politics — including a former senior official appointed by Cuomo.

In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and narrowed the definition of what constitutes an «official act.»

Outside David Grandeau, a former state ethics oversight official, and now a blogger, said he thinks the closed door session was a «not a good way to start» the commission, calling the public portion of the meeting a «dog and pony show».

Among those present were Barrett's family, including his wife, Fran, who works in Cuomo's office as interagency coordinator for nonprofit services, and a long list of elected officials, including: Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Carolyn Maloney, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, former New York City Public Advocate Mark Green, Counsel to the Governor Alphonso David, Cuomo's Chief of Staff Melissa DeRosa, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and dozens of journalists.

Senator Savino, a former high ranking union official, says municipal union leaders in New York City have not yet been adequately briefed on a policy that would represent a big change for public pensions.

NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn has endorsed a bid by former Councilman and ex-Bloomberg administration official Guillermo Linares to return to public life by running for the 72nd Assembly District seat being vacated by Senate hopeful Adriano Espaillat.

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky: «It isn't going to matter much, but the two emerging Republican candidates for governor are good, strong public officials, which is not what the GOP has usually offered us.»

State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly led Neel Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official and the establishment - preferred candidate, by 5 points in a poll this month from the Public Policy Institute of California.

The conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is the latest and largest verdict in a seemingly endless parade of New York public officials caught abusing power for personal gain.

Evidence introduced in the ongoing corruption and bribery trial of former Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi has cast the spotlight on another public official: state Senator Tom Libous, who, according to witness testimony, pushed a law firm to hire his son — and inflate his starting salary — in exchange for steering government business toward the firm's practice.

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They have worked the archives both public and private and benefited from off the record briefings by officials, members of the agencies and former ministers.

«We therefore challenge the said former CBN official to make public the empirical evidence suggesting that 20 per cent Naira currency in circulation is fake.

A diverse group of local governments, environmental protection organizations, business groups, recreational enthusiasts, newspapers and former federal and state government officials and environmental leaders are asking New York State voters to help make the Adirondacks and Catskills safer for residents and visitors alike by voting Yes for Ballot Proposal # 3 — The Public Health and Safety Land Account — this Election Day.

He said the government is only making frantic efforts to cause public disaffection towards the previous NDC administration by smearing former state officials with allegations of corruption and initiating legal action against them for same.

It observed that following public outcry that the Presidency should hand the former officials to the EFCC for prosecution after their sacking, «spokesmen of the administration have been speaking in forked tongues about Presidency not teleguiding the anti-graft war and that the agency would exercise its discretion.»

Mr. Cupoli, the Assembly's choice, is a former Chief economist at SEMATECH and Professor of NanoEconomics at SUNY Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, a school that Mr. Cuomo and state officials have touted as an example of a successful partnership between a public university and private business.

The former MP who served from 1996 to 2004 for the Ajumako - Enyan - Esiam Constituency, was one of the most popular public officials from the Central Region during the Kufuor era.

Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor, made passage of stringent reforms on the income and pensions for public officials the center of his campaign in the brutal fight with Republican candidate Chris McGrath.

ALBANY — The corruption convictions of former state Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos and his son Adam B. Skelos were overturned by a federal appellate court on Tuesday in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that retooled the definition of an «official act» as it relates to public corruption.

New York's Public Officers Law bans former government officials from appearing before the state agencies where they worked for two years in a paid capacity, and also says state employees can not ever practice, appear before or ever even «communicate» with those agencies on matters over which they were «directly concerned» during their state employment, or which were under their «active consideration.»

Both times, the court cited a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Republican former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell that narrowed the definition of a corrupt act by a public official.

Martins, a former state senator from Old Westbury, centered his ad on a proposed state constitutional amendment to require officials convicted of public corruption to forfeit their state pensions.