Sentences with phrase «lobbying law violations»
In a separate settlement, Nislick and Neu settled allegations of lobbying law violations, admitting that they had sought to influence legislation on replacing horse carriages in Manhattan with electric vehicles that they donated to the Campaign for One New York.
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If Cohen was instead lobbying on behalf of any of these companies by contacting government officials, including Trump, on their behalf, he may have violated federal lobbying registration laws, which punish knowing and corrupt violations with up to five years in prison.
«PUSH Buffalo's arbitrary, noisy, harassing intrusion in the Ellicott Square Building on June 2, 2017, with bullhorns, signs and arrogant people seeking to disturb, intimidate and frighten tenants and visitors to the building and its lobby was not only a trespass and a violation of the law, but also an ignorant, mindless imposition on privacy in a private building and clear evidence of your malicious intentions in slandering and defaming me and my companies,» Paladino wrote.
JCOPE announced the hiring of Seth Agata, 57, on Tuesday for the top staff post at the watchdog entity, which polices the lobbying industry and investigates potential violations of public officers law.
Former Lobbying Commission Executive Director David Grandeau weighed in on the Kaye report during an interview with me that will air on «Capital Tonight» this evening, saying the former chief judge overlooked a violation by the governor of the Public Officers Law.
Established in 2011, Jcope oversees the executive and legislative branches and investigates violations of state ethics and lobbying laws.
(See: In violation of state lobbying laws, corporate education reform group develops Malloy's disastrous special education funding proposal.)
She is going to need it to pay the fines for all these violations of Connecticut's lobbying laws.
The immediate threat in the United States is that dirty energy lobbyists will effectively use hypothetical arguments of WTO or NAFTA illegality to chill congressional action and provide cover for U.S. legislators who are indebted to Big Oil, Big Coal and the LNG lobby for campaign contributions, even though international trade law is not incorporated into U.S. domestic law and violations can not be enforced in U.S. domestic courts.
Indeed, when the SEC was writing the rules for its whistleblower program, many public companies and business groups such as the Association of Corporate Counsel and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied hard for a requirement that employees must first report potential violations of the securities laws internally before blowing the whistle to the SEC.