Sentences with phrase «independent ethics panel»

The lines of connection between Cuomo and the people who have filled the top staff position at JCOPE have led to repeated criticism that the governor holds excessive influence over the ostensibly independent ethics panel — a charge the administration has repeatedly denied.

While the number of calls from David to JCOPE is not overwhelming, the timing of several calls made 16 months ago raises questions about the frequency of contact between the governor's office and the state's independent ethics panel, especially at a time when former aides and supporters of Cuomo were in the crosshairs of a U.S. Justice Department investigation.

Not exact matches

The issue first came to light in a leaked memorandum from the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, Risa Sugarman, a position formed in 2014 following an ethics agreement in the budget and the shuttering of the Moreland Commission, a panel formed to investigate corruption in the Legislature.

The current ethics panel known as the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, created in 2011, would be replaced by the Independent State Commission on Public Ethics.

In a direct confrontation with a Legislature controlled by his own party, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said he would pressure lawmakers this fall to state publicly whether they would embrace essential ethics changes, including disclosing their outside income, ceding control of redistricting to an independent panel and submitting to an outside ethics monitor.»

«If you've been hired because of your connection to a powerful person, you don't have to be working directly for that person to receive special treatment,» said Richard Briffault, a professor of legislation at Columbia Law School who chairs New York City's Conflicts of Interest Board, the city's independent ethics oversight panel.

«The recent cases highlight the growing fissure between the independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) and the long - standing House ethics panel controlled by members of Congress.

The creation of embryos with genetic material from three people has received the green light from an independent UK ethics panel.

The plan for a separate, independent, intra-institutional ethics and review panel for data research in Universities was shelved in the Netherlands, because it was deemed too difficult to co-ordinate with dozens of Dutch universities.