Sentences with phrase «of ethics commissioners»

A list of ethics commissioners and codes of conduct from federal, provincial and some international jurisdictions.

[The] e-brief summarises the approach taken in federal, state and territory and some overseas parliaments to codes of conduct for ministers and members of parliament, registers of interests, the post-separation employment of ministers and the use of ethics commissioners in providing advice on and / or conducting investigations into breaches of codes.

The concerns about Bill C - 27 have caught the attention of the ethics commissioner, who says she's looking into the accusations to determine whether an investigation is necessary.

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«The official Opposition will call on the ethics commissioner to investigate a possible conflict of interest... after a document released to the media indicated Air Canada's CEO and executive vice-president Duncan Dee apparently upgraded Raitt's flight from economy to business class — almost a $ 550 value — for free on Sept. 25....

Following Chan's appearance, the founder of ethics advocacy group Democracy Watch said he plans to file a formal complaint with the lobbying commissioner.

It might be possible to make a reasonable argument that Mr. Trudeau has done nothing wrong — the same ethics commissioner to whom the Harper government deferred on the matter of Nigel Wright's cheque seems to have cleared Mr. Trudeau to make the speeches he made between 2008 and 2012.

A Port Authority commissioner from New Jersey who chaired the board's ethics committee has resigned over misconduct that the agency called «profoundly disturbing,» though it did not reveal what Caren Turner is accused of having done.

Cuomo appoints the majority of the commissioners on the ethics board.

Bulgaro is not giving any reason for his departure, but he was one of the few commissioners in the ethics board's two - year history to speak out publicly at a meeting last September, when he complained about leaks from the commission to the media on the Silver investigation.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman declined to defend the ethics agency, since the opinion was adopted without the unanimous support of commissioners.

Two commissioners on the state's ethics watchdog panel have tendered their resignations: David Arroyo, an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo who still had time left on his JCOPE term, and Joseph Covello, who was originally appointed by ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Democratic District Attorney Madeline Singas has asked Donna Myrill, the Republican - appointed county investigations commissioner, to examine whether the postcard violates the state constitution and county code of ethics, which forbid the use of government resources for political purposes.

Under the ethics panel rules, commissioners can neither confirm nor deny that a probe has been launched, and must keep all details of the investigation secret until a final report is issued.

Three days after Grieco was cut free from the punishment levied last year for a series of self - inflicted campaign finance and ethics gaffes during his failed mayoral bid, the disgraced former Miami Beach commissioner announced his campaign for a coastal state House seat.

The three said it wasn't needed because they had agreed on ethics reforms, but Bharara criticized the decision at the time, took possession of the commission's files and warned Cuomo — who had been accused of interfering — to stop urging commissioners to rebut public criticism.

On Monday, DeFrancisco called for commissioners of the state's lobbying and ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, to dismiss its executive director Seth Agata.

Mahoney was soon joined by Dino Dixie, who does business with the county; Duane Owens, the county personnel commissioner who was facilities commissioner at the time; Dennis DuVal, a member of the county ethics board and former Syracuse police chief; and Mike McCarthy, her former brother - in - law.

The commissioner appointed by Senate Democrats, Ravi Batra, resigned over the weekend, saying he'd asked the FBI to investigate the inner workings of the ethics commission.

Bulgaro is not giving any reason for his departure, but he was one of the few commissioners in the ethics board two year history to speak out publicly at a meeting last September, when he complained about leaks from the commission to the media on the Silver investigation.

Fact # 4: Although Commissioner Esty, the head of Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, had an ethics ruling saying that he did not have any «legal» conflict of interest; he announced that he felt, as commissioner, he had an obligation to meet a higher standard, that being to avoid the appearance of a conflict.

One of his most important commissioners had stepped up and set a new standard for transparency and ethics and that eliminating even the appearance of a conflict of interest required him to recuse himself on any issue related to an environmental group whose board he has served on.

He promised last week to sell all of his roughly one million shares in the company and place all his other substantial assets in a blind trust — a step he says the ethics commissioner told him in 2015 would not be necessary.