Sentences with phrase «legislative ethics violations»
When it takes a U.S. attorney to uncover legislative ethics violations, something is wrong.
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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.»
Established in 2011, Jcope oversees the executive and legislative branches and investigates violations of state ethics and lobbying laws.
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.
While selling donors access to senators, reps, and campaign staff is nothing new, the open effort to sell access to their legislative staff appears to be in violation of ethics rules.