Sentences with phrase «investigate ethics violations»

«I will implement a forward - looking integrity agenda that will eliminate LDCs, create an office of public integrity to investigate ethics violations, and post all county contracts online for public review.»

JCOPE has 45 days from receiving a complaint to decide whether to investigate an ethics violation but it has no obligation to reveal its investigations.

Not exact matches

If this already compromised Moreland Commission on Corruption is not willing to investigate the second highest elected official in the executive branch for what appears to be a clear violations of the ethics laws, they should pack up and go home.»

It is simply not credible that Mr. Agata, who was Governor Cuomo's lawyer and represented him on ethics issues, can objectively investigate potential ethical violations by the governor or his political enemies.

Now, almost two months later, Panepinto will not reveal whether he has received notification from JCOPE, the panel that investigates charges of ethics violations.

We believe this is a big mistake and further undermine the credibility of an agency that has struggled to independently and effectively investigate and enforce violations of state ethics laws by the governor, legislature, state employees, and -LSB-...]

The House Committee on Standards and Official Conduct — which has been investigating the allegations levied against Rep. Charlie Rangel — has charged the so - called Dean of the New York Delegation with several ethics violations.

Barnhart is also asking the city's ethics board to to investigate possible violations, including whether Warren gave Cooney special access.

Meanwhile, the chair of the State's Republican Party, Ed Cox, says Governor Cuomo's anti corruption Moreland Act Commission should investigate Duffy for a «possible violation of state ethic laws».

Cuomo is planning to begin a Moreland Act Commission to investigate campaign finance violations at the state Board of Elections if lawmakers do not approve an ethics package.

Any cases they investigate would be referred to the attorney general, but Horner says the office does not initiate its own investigations and rarely — if ever — looks into possible ethics violations.

Cuomo created the Moreland Commission in 2013 as part of an effort to investigate corruption and ethics violations among state lawmakers and political organizations.

Eliminate the stratified oversight bodies and establish a single, independent ethics commission with robust enforcement powers to investigate and prosecute violations that members of either the executive and legislative branches commit.»

In 2010, Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who was then the state's attorney general, named her independent counsel to investigate several alleged ethics violations by Mr. Paterson.

The «State government's ethics laws are policed by several separate entities, each without the independence necessary to ensure that violations are fully and fairly investigated and prosecuted. . .

Established in 2011, Jcope oversees the executive and legislative branches and investigates violations of state ethics and lobbying laws.

The commission investigates potential violations of state ethics laws by state employees and elected officials.

This afternoon State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he was passing off the responsibility of investigating David Paterson's reported attempt to influence court proceedings against one of his own aides and his reported violation of state ethics laws regarding a few Yankees tickets.

It investigates alleged ethics violations in the executive branch and regulates lobbying while the Legislature's ethics commission investigates lawmakers.

However, when the ethics commission was formed in June, 2011, the accompanying announcement said JCOPE would indeed «have jurisdiction to investigate potential violations of law by legislators and legislative employees ``, and deliver its findings to the Legislative Ethics Commission.

(See «PA House majority leader Turzai took $ 3,000 from pigeon shooters, killed vote on pigeon shooting, but will not be investigated for alleged ethics violations,» http://wp.me/p4pKmM-Vu.)

These Bar Associations depend on required fees to regulate the profession, to write ethics opinions, to investigate violations of the rules.

At OLPR, Eric investigated and prosecuted allegations of attorneys» violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct, provided hundreds of advisory opinions to Minnesota lawyers, supervised the Trust Account Overdraft Notification Program, wrote articles for Minnesota Lawyer, and presented numerous seminars on ethics issues.