Sentences with phrase «of ethics officials»

«The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE's staff and the community of ethics officials in the federal executive branch,» Mr. Shaub wrote in a letter to the president that the director posted to his Twitter account.

«The great privilege and honor of my career has been to lead OGE's staff and the community of ethics officials in the federal executive branch,» Shaub wrote.

Not exact matches

«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....

The very next day, I met with career department officials, including a senior ethics official, to discuss some things publicly reported in the press and that might have some bearing on the issue of recusal.

Senior administration officials with active corporate activities raises a potential conflict of interests, ethics experts have warned.

Shulkin is one of several Cabinet officials who have faced ethics questions over misuse of taxpayer funds, with his relating to an expensive European trip.

According to numerous ethics experts, the clause takes an expansive definition of gifts, encompassing everything from a direct bribe to a foreign official's approval of construction of a new Trump property.

Trump tries to keep his official duties and his business separate with the help of an ethics adviser.

WASHINGTON — The third most senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs is stepping down amid findings she misled ethics officials to secure approval for VA Secretary David Shulkin's wife to accompany him on taxpayer - funded trip to Europe.

Yet another Trump administration official is facing ethics questions after an inspector general's report found that Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets, and that his chief of staff misled officials about Shulkin's wife's travel to Europe last summer.

The inspector general found Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and taxpayer - funded airfare for his wife for the 10 - day trip in July, and he and his chief of staff misled VA ethics officials while seeking official approval for the tickets and flights.

Shulkin had accepted the tickets without approval from the VA, but got the retroactive okay from ethics officials when he told them that Gosling was a friend of his wife's.

Under the ethics rules for federal employees and / or officials, the employees or official is required to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

His chief of staff, Viveca Wright Simpson, made false representations to a VA ethics lawyer and altered an official email to secure approval for taxpayer funding of Shulkin's wife's flights, which cost more than $ 4,000, the VA inspector general found.

A certain tension is built into their official canons of ethics, e.g., «A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system, and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.»

William Oddie quotes a correspondent defending the Soho Masses as saying, «Research shows clearly that most Catholics differ from the official doctrine on virtually all matters of sexual ethics» (Ecclesial Co-operation with Homosexual Activism; Faith September and October 2010).

Research shows clearly that most Catholics differ from the official doctrine on virtually all matters of sexual ethics.

Then he said that, since he is now an official of NIH, «I can say nothing about ethics.»

The Air Force said headquarters officials were not aware of the religious component of the ethics course, despite it being taught for nearly two decades by chaplains.

In addition to clashes over liberation theology, Vatican authorities have continued to uphold official teaching on sexual ethics in general (as in a 1986 statement on homosexuality by Cardinal Ratzinger) and have withstood calls even for an open discussion of women's ordination or of ending celibacy as a requirement for the priesthood.

By January of 1985 it was evident that reprisals against the lay signers were beginning as well — particularly against Daniel Maguire, professor of ethics at Marquette University, the male signer generally regarded as holding something close to official status as a Catholic theologian.

#Blatter #Platini FIFA ethics cttee that imposed 8 yr bans is independent FIFA appeal ctee that reduced bans to 6 yrs made up of FA officials

«On May 24 2011, Fifa executive committee member and Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer reported to Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke possible violations of the Fifa code of ethics allegedly committed by officials,» a Fifa statement read.

European football's control, ethics and disciplinary body acknowledged that the allegation was made in good faith by the 17 - year - old but, after a number of extensive interviews with players and match officials, it came down to Brewster's word against that of Spartak captain Leonid Mironov.

Here's the official document of the World Health Organization's Code of ethics for marketing breastmilk substitutes, another explaining it in more detail (last 2 pages are summary) and the wikipedia article on the code.)

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.»

Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

A former Spanish translator at the NYC Department of Education has been slapped with a $ 20,000 fine for what officials described as one of the biggest time thefts ever prosecuted by the city's ethics board.

A breakaway group of five state Senate Democrats who have been aligned with the Republicans are set to reintroduce an ethics package that would ban state public officials from receiving any outside income following Silver's corruption conviction.

Another provision would apply much of the ethics provisions from the public officers law to state procurement officials.

«JCOPE has one charge and that's to be the regulator of ethics and integrity of New York state and public officials and unfortunately I think this an example of the ethics Chernobyl that's ocurring here in Albany and JCOPE's the regulator.

The most recent allegation comes at a time when Northern Manhattan elected officials — including Rangel who has been charged with 13 ethics violations and Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez who is accused of improperly «touching» a Council staffer — are already doing their fair share of fighting back.

What Albany needs desperately is a vastly improved independent ethics investigation body, the elimination of outside income for elected officials and better campaign finance laws that give challengers a fighting chance to oust entrenched incumbents.

But Martins, 50, of Old Westbury, doesn't see why having an ethics officer who answers to the county executive and whose budget is dependent on that official is a problem.

Unfortunately, the Grand Jury accepted the politically charged testimony of this legislator and claimed «Financial Disclosure forms were used by a county official in a failed attempt to end the legislature's investigation into the ethics commission.»

Strengthening Party ethics to disallow public officials who have been convicted of public malfeasance from being supported by the Party; and 3.

In 2011, Cuomo made the first of what would be several attempts to reform the state's ethics laws, ultimately brokering the agreement that would create JCOPE and a little noticed database called Project Sunlight, which allows users to view the details of meetings outside entities have with state officials from every agency in the state.

Outside David Grandeau, a former state ethics oversight official, and now a blogger, said he thinks the closed door session was a «not a good way to start» the commission, calling the public portion of the meeting a «dog and pony show».

When he faced questions about a pending state ethics probe back in March, State Sen. Marc C. Panepinto insisted he knew of no investigation and cited the need for an official notice from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The lawmakers had last week summoned US Envoy, Mr James Entwistle to appear before its ethics, priviledges and foreign affairs committee in futherance of allegations leveled against its three members who were on official programme in Cleveland, Ohio last April

The ethics panel in its advisory opinion returned with a previously used definition of who can use the state aircraft when on official business.

A state senator from Buffalo who announced he would not seek re-election is the subject of an inquiry by state ethics officials amid lurid allegations including sexual harassment, according to a report.

City officials Sunday renamed a Brooklyn street in honor of the aide to Gov. Cuomo who was killed during a street festival last year — but neither the governor nor Mayor de Blasio showed up for the ceremony amid their administrations» ethics probes.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

Both former officials, who were ousted in a contentious 2015 election, were found guilty of internal charges of dereliction of duty and violating the union's ethics rules when they allegedly stymied efforts to uncover thousands of dollars of improper purchases by Deborah J. Lee, who had been the leader of a PEF council in Rockland County.

«I have heard plenty of concerns about ethics with respect to elected officials but I have not heard the issue of whether campaign managers should be regulated.

Honda, who faced an ethics investigation into misuse of official funds, lost his re-election bid last year to fellow Democrat Ro Khanna.

«The list of undone ethics reforms is long, and it is clearer than ever before that our elected leaders need to complete the job of ensuring that public officials can no longer use their public posts for private gain,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

His 30 - month governorship included an acknowledgment of extramarital affairs, ethics probes and scandals that took down some of his top officials.

Silver had reported in his required ethics filings that he made at least $ 650,000 a year working for a law firm part - time, but he is accused of using his leadership post to collect millions of dollars in fees in exchange for official actions.