Sentences with phrase «government ethics held»

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(Albany, NY) In a letter delivered today, a coalition of government reform organizations called on Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to hold a series of open public leaders» meetings to discuss and negotiate — in public — ethics reforms necessary to restore New Yorkers» battered confidence in Albany.

After outlining his government ethics and campaign finance reform agenda is his January State of the State address, Cuomo has now held one public event dedicated to reform in the last five months.

The state's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday; while its proceedings are secret, good - government groups have filed formal complaints against Lopez and it is expected commissioners will weigh authorizing an investigation.

An hour before Silver is to be sentenced, representatives of government watchdog groups Common Cause / NY, Citizens Union, the League of Women Voters, NYPIRG and Reinvent Albany will hold a news conference in Albany to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to pass comprehensive ethics reform to try to prevent future corruption cases.

Bellone said Suffolk County needs an outside partner «with expertise on government reform and ethics» to hold public hearings and develop a series of changes that can be put before voters in a 2018 referendum.

March 27, 2017 • As we cover conflicts of interest in the Trump administration, a question frequently arises: What parts of the government have the power to hold the president and his appointees accountable on ethics?

The U.S. Department of Justice is one of several parts of the government that have the power to hold the president and his appointees accountable on ethics.

Steven Spielberg has delivered a master class of ethics vs legalities vs political power, touching on not just the responsibilities of all parties, but most crucially on the conflicting objectives of a free press (making money) and the government system (getting elected) it is charged with holding accountable.