Sentences with phrase «investigate legislative ethics»

Bharara said a key impetus for the prosecutions was the decision of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the two leaders to kill a Moreland Commission investigating legislative ethics.

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Since then, there have been quite a few high - profile legislative corruption cases, and when lawmakers balked at passing Cuomo's ethics package to address that, he created a Moreland Commission to investigate them.

One theory: By going the legislative route, he could get political credit for «ethics reform» while hand - crafting a mechanism that resisted handing the power to investigate his business to a perceived rival — or anyone, for that matter, who he didn't control.

A government reform group is calling for a state ethics panel report to be made public, one day after the panel investigating charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D - Brooklyn) sent a report to the legislative ethics committee.

Astorino's plan also includes a new ethics commission to investigate complaints against lawmakers, and changes to legislative pensions and compensation.

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.»

When Governor Cuomo unceremoniously pulled the plug on the Moreland Act Commission Investigating Public Corruption as part of a deal with legislative leaders in exchange for weak ethics reforms, even the most optimistic New Yorkers were left depressed.

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

Cuomo is under increasing pressure to act on ethics as he shuttered the Moreland Commission that was investigating legislative misconduct in a 2014 deal with Silver and Skelos — a deal that greatly angered Bharara and appears to have sparked a federal investigation.

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 legislative employees ``, and deliver its findings to the Legislative Ethics Legislative Ethics Commission.