Sentences with phrase «of ethics violations»

I have known people waiting for years to bring home children when countries close because of ethics violations.

At the same time, it is incumbent upon the paralegal to learn and understand guidelines related to the preservation of confidentiality to minimize the risk of an ethics violation.

If you want to stay clear of an ethics violation, you need to educate yourself on the basics.

They're absolutely pervasive and are the basis for most of the ethics violations I've come across in my time as an ethics investigator.

You are entitled to report your lawyer in the case of any ethics violations.

It comes down to the judgment of the individual attorney and the risk of ethics violations and malpractice claims that he or she accepts with that decision.

HARLEM — News that Rep. Charles Rangel was found guilty of ethics violations had many Harlemites «taken aback» on Tuesday, while others were «disgusted.»

Rangel was found guilty of 11 counts of ethics violations on Tuesday and, in response, the leaders rallied in support of the Democrat Senator in front of the «Civil Rights Church,» breaking spontaneously into a somber rendition of the protest song «We Shall Overcome.»

Now, almost two months later, Panepinto will not reveal whether he has received notification from JCOPE, the panel that investigates charges of ethics violations.

HARLEM — Harlem residents had mixed reactions Thursday evening to the House's 333 to 79 vote to censure Rep. Charlie Rangel for a series of ethics violations.

He hopes a report in the New York Times, which includes new accusations of ethics violations against Silver regarding the speaker's failure to disclose substantial payments from a law firm, will convince his colleagues to see things differently.

«The American public needs to have confidence that ethics violations, as well as the appearance of ethics violations, are investigated and appropriately addressed,» an ethics official wrote in a new letter.

The six - member board of the umbrella New York Empowerment Zone, which includes Rangel, unanimously approved the money to Dominicana on June 29 — just weeks before the House charged the embattled Democratic lawmaker with a litany of ethics violations.

In 2010, Rangel was censured by his House colleagues for a raft of ethics violations, including failing to pay taxes on rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic.

The Legislature must now decide whether Mr. Lopez will be disciplined further for allegations of ethics violations.

Paterson's own tenure as governor ran afoul of ethics violations, including the acceptance of complimentary Yankees tickets.

The changes also included an amendment explicitly stating that the District Attorney is responsible for prosecuting claims of ethics violations.

The Majority Leader is also exploring the idea of an Office of Integrity that would replace the Ethics Board and handle complaints of ethics violations.

(CNN)- An ethics committee in South Carolina on Friday cleared Republican Governor Nikki Haley of ethics violations.

Heaney, while accusing Faso of ethics violations, says he did it to stop Hillary Clinton.

(1) StudentsFirst's complete disregard for Connecticut's ethics laws and the fact that Michelle Rhee's group appear to have engaged in a massive number of ethics violations

The GameJournoPros emails appear to confirm widely - held suspicions that video game journalists operate with one voice and collude on major issues to distort coverage of ethics violations and to support figures to whom they are politically sympathetic.

If the intent of the side venture is unconnected to promoting the lawyer's practice or soliciting clients, the chances of an ethics violation lessen.

Take for example in Broadcom v Qualcomm, a patent litigation case where the court ordered $ 8.5 M in sanctions and investigation of ethics violations for a large quantity of withheld documents when a simple search revealed missing documents.

But what kinds of ethics violations did Yoo and Bybee commit?

Next, NBC recently objected to Mitt Romney's use of a «Nightly News» video clip from 1997 that showed Tom Brokaw discussing findings of ethics violations by Newt Gingrich.

And are these goals mutually exclusive — in other words, is publication of an ethics violation always a death knell for a lawyer?

However, I have to say that until we got word of two earlier decisions that had cleared members of Crowell & Moring of ethics violations, reported in yesterday's «The BLT: The Blog of the Legal Times,» we were unaware of this: In 2011, Crowell's D.C. — based partners Clifford Zatz, William Anderson and Kirsten Nathanson, and counsel Monica Welt, wrote a memo for their mining industry clients «that raised the specter of inbreeding in the Appalachian region.»

Second, a Hearing Panel may base its recommendation for discipline on a Member's past record of ethics violations.

From a 1961 issue of REALTOR ® Headlines newsletter, a view of the «ethics court» at the offices of the Phoenix Association of REALTORS ®, where matters of ethics violations and arbitration hearings would be held.

Legislators still retain the power to punish any legislators found guilty of ethics violations.

Oh, but wait, Charlie Rangel is indicted on 13 counts of ethics violations and it gets regulated to a lesser headline.

But probably the most high profile primary race in the state is in Harlem, where longtime Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat who has survived charges of ethics violations, faces four challengers.

Harlem's legendary Rep. Charles Rangel was censured by the House of Representatives for a series of ethics violations, including failing to pay taxes on rental revenue from a home he owned in the Dominican Republic.

First, Hull's open ended way of asking business — by seeking input on how he can help them — allows him to steer clear of ethics violations because he's not selling a specific, he's asking how he can be most useful were he to represent the company.

Egregious as some of these ethics violations are, Newt's comments should not be taken seriously.

Representative Charles B. Rangel, in the Capitol on Monday, has given no hint about his plans after being found guilty of ethics violations.

MANHATTAN — Rep. Charles Rangel was found guilty Tuesday on 11 counts of ethics violations, a House panel found.

charlie rangel is still in congress after all of his ethics violations.

«I think this is a sad day for him and a sad day for Congress,» Weiner said on Nov. 22, after the committee concluded he was guilty of ethics violations.