Sentences with phrase «of ethics scandals»

«We know he doesn't like to pay his bills or his taxes, but despite that, we are proud of our 2 - 1 fundraising advantage over him that will help us expose his liberal record and long list of ethics scandals.,» Donovan spokeswoman Jessica Proud said.

Back in 1987, a spate of ethics scandals led the first Governor Cuomo to appoint a Moreland Commission of his own, which he called the New York State Commission on Government Integrity, but later came to be known as the Feerick commission (after the Fordham law dean who chaired it).

NEW YORK CITY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo's controversial handling of ethics scandals in Albany earned him low marks from voters and dropped his approval rating to its lowest ever, according to the results of a new poll from Quinnipiac University.

Following a pair of ethics scandals that have gripped Albany, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing his plans for ending government corruption.

NEW YORK — Forty years ago, a Harlem political legend named Adam Clayton Powell Jr. refused to step down from his House seat in the face of an ethics scandal.

Not exact matches

During the first of two hearings on Capitol Hill on Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator faced tough questions from House Democrats over his myriad ethics scandals and deregulatory fervor.

Cambridge Analytica has filed insolvency proceedings just weeks after it was embroiled at the center of a political scandal involving Facebook's data protection policies, the 2016 US general election of President Trump and the ethics of online advertising.

«It is not uncommon after a crisis or scandal to recruit from the outside like CPA Australia has done,» says Richard Leblanc, associate professor of law, governance and ethics at York University.

We should attempt to understand the scandals associated with Mark Driscoll as indicative of the crimes and passions we excuse or berate in our various heroes as a mirror to critique our own loyalties and ethics.

The left complains about an ascendant «neo-Puritanism,» especially in relation to sexual ethics, and especially in the aftermath of the scandals surrounding Bill Clinton.

Especially when FIFA President Gianni Infantino has been accused of ousting the ethics leadership whose mission was to clean up soccer's scandal - tainted image.

At the same time, the ethics watchdogs criticized Cuomo, who proposed the initial measure in June, for not going far enough on reform measures in Albany in the wake of a series of corruption scandals and arrests that have plagued the Legislature.

A long line of scandals, a long line of corruption, and not a peep from the legislative ethics committee in the meantime.»

Word spread Friday evening of a potential deal that could have also included ethics - related measures such as more oversight of procurement procedures — a discussion sparked by the latest public corruption scandal that reached into the governor's inner circle — and a public financing system for judicial campaigns.

Still, the amount of money raised is eyebrow - raising for good - government advocates, who have been pushing for a host of ethics reforms in the wake of the corruption scandals, arrests and convictions, with still more investigations ongoing.

When the legislative session ended on June 21, lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals in light of an economic development scandal in the Cuomo administration.

When the state legislative session ended on June 21, lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform proposals made in light of the economic development scandal in the Cuomo administration.

As for Rangel, Tasini predicted the scandal - scarred congressman, who was forced to give up his Ways & Means Committee chairmanship in the wake of a critical ethics committee report and remains under investigation, will «cost Democrats seats all across the country» if he's the nominee.

Fred LeBrun writes Cuomo is «dead wrong» if he thinks passing an ethics reform package in the wake of the scandals will help state government's image with the public.

Deals are at hand in Albany to combat heroin addiction and serve alcohol at Sunday brunch, but good - government advocates are blasting the lack of any agreement on ethics or campaign finance reform after years of scandal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's opponents in the November election race are stepping up accusations over the ethics commission scandal and citing sections of state law that they say might have been broken by the governor's aides.

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

The effect of the phone hacking scandal originating with the News of the World also raised wider questions about the ethics employed by companies under Murdoch's ownership, as well as the effects the scandal will have on the ethics employed specifically by print journalists and to some extent the wider world of journalism.

For what it's worth, I haven't seen Paterson go out of his way to assist Cuomo, who, after all, has tapped former Chief Judge Judith Kaye to investigate the governor for the David Johnson and Yankees tickets ethics scandals.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a statement in response to the Kruger - Boyland - Lipsky et al corruption scandal, saying today's arrests «again spotlight the failings of New York State government and highlight the urgent need for the Legislature to pass comprehensive ethics reform — now.»

Jon Campbell from Gannett News, Rick Karlin from the Albany Times Union, Karen DeWitt of NYS Public Radio and Nick Reisman discuss the ethics proposals being floated in the wake of two corruption scandals.

Today is the final day of the legislative session in Albany, and state lawmakers in both chambers have been under pressure to pass some version of ethics or anti-corruption reform measures in the wake of corruption scandals that have engulfed both chambers.

«It's pretty clear that all of the state ethics watchdogs are not really meeting their role,» said Horner who said there's been an «unbelievable» series of scandals in the legislature and governor's office in recent years.

Taking aim at the Governor Andrew Cuomo's demeanor in office and the scandals surrounding many of the incumbent's close associates, Marc Molinaro vowed to restore a sense of ethics and openness as he brought his gubernatorial campaign to the Erie County Republican Committee's downtown Buffalo headquarters Wednesday morning.

With ethics troubles of his own (he's been accused of taking bribes to pay his legal bills for another alleged scandal), William Boyland Jr. is being forced to fend off a gaggle of challengers, including Roy Antoine, Anthony Herbert, Anthony Jones, David Miller, Nathan Bradley and Christopher Durosinmi.

Flanagan says he does not think that further ethics reform will be enacted in the remaining weeks of the legislative session, despite an ongoing corruption scandal that cost his predecessor his job.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo and leaders of the scandal - scarred Legislature agreed on a sweeping ethics - reform package late yesterday that will at long last force lawmakers to publicly disclose their outside incomes and name clients they represent before the state.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York's secretive ethics board made it clear Monday that members did not vote to block the investigation of a sexual - harassment scandal in the state Assembly.

Before the latest ethics reform craze swept the state Capitol in reaction to the Sheldon Silver corruption scandal, education was the top topic of debate among lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

After a string of corruption scandals hit the Legislature, Cuomo impaneled the commission to investigate the Legislature when lawmakers failed to reach an agreement with him on new ethics laws.

Despite appearing jointly together, both Skelos and Silver are far apart on whether to allow public financing of campaigns to move forward, a coming flashpoint in the effort to overhaul campaign finance and ethics laws in the wake of two corruption scandals.

The scandal, alongside the arrest of Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, has renewed a semi-annual call for ethics reform in Albany.

Cuomo has insisted that ethics legislation should be, more broadly, directed at the Legislature considering the spate of corruption arrests and scandals that has engulfed both chambers.

And speaking of ethics, I don't know that the endorsement of a person whose involvement in an ethics scandal was central to her departure from government is an endorsement I'd want.

House Republicans, with no warning and overriding their top leaders, voted yesterday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail.

Cuomo has pushed the legislature to enact a series of ethics reforms in response to scandals and public pressure, but public integrity in New York is worse today than it was three years ago, according to a new 50 - state analysis.

Cuomo, however, is prodding state lawmakers to pass stronger ethics measures in the wake of a series of corruption scandals.

Her comments are likely to disappoint groups campaigning for more regulation of the press in the wake of the phone - hacking scandal and the Leveson inquiry into media ethics.

The Democratic organization sponsored candidate, the district's former Councilmember, who was term - limited out of office, is himself engaged in an ethics scandal.

«Albany has been rocked by scandal after scandal, and yet the Senate continues to bury their heads in the sand and refuses to take action,» Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said of the need for stronger ethics law changes in the wake of the latest round of corruption cases in Albany.

Later in the week, the governor announced another package of ethics reforms that he promised would end the unrelenting scandals that have plagued state government.

Elected during a season of scandals in 2010, Cuomo introduced his first ethics - reform bill not long after taking office.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says the Assembly's sexual harassment scandal presents the first true test for the fledgling ethics commission, created by Governor Cuomo and lawmakers last year.

The failure of Albany to clean up its ongoing — and seemingly unending — ethics scandals was again in the news last week.

Astorino» s spokeswoman accused Cuomo of being «terrified» of a one on one TV debate, saying he does not want to be on camera discussing an ethics scandal in the administration that is now being probed by the US Attorney.