Sentences with phrase «of public officials»

Sometimes they would even threaten the lives of the public officials in order to get a pay raise.

Are clients paying privately for the actions of a public official?

But bribery of public officials is — by definition — always wrongful.

He says the verdict is the first - ever conviction of a public official for securities fraud in connection with municipal bonds.

Use this template to provide a mailing list of public officials.

Actually, I believe if you read carefully public officials are involved in all my remarks on the topic of corruption of public officials.

It is the right and proper job of public officials to listen to these concerns and respond accordingly.

Yet, most of our public officials remain silent about this vital issue.

The role of public officials must be to encourage responsible development across the board.

With the growing and disturbing epidemic of public officials violating the trust of the people who put them in office, it's time to restore the people's confidence in our public servants.

Few people are involved in small groups because they are trying to launch a political campaign or attract the attention of public officials.

Every ten years the lines of public officials, geographically are changed because we are growing in population, but we don't grow in the size of the political body.

I still have faith that the next generation of public officials will do better than the last, but my faith sure gets tested.

To best serve the interest of all of our constituents, there needs to be increased collaboration of public officials, so that the critical issues are adequately represented.

The following table ranks each state based on total convictions and convictions per 10,000 residents of public officials in federal corruption cases between 1976 and 2010.

I highly question the ability of public officials to accurately assess racial or ethnic criteria based on appearance or names alone.

The same is true of public officials, engineers, health practitioners, and other professionals in positions of trust.

Our relationships span circles of public officials, advocates, and policy experts at all levels of government.

The constant question is whether clients are seeking undue influence, are clients paying privately for the actions of a public official?

One of his recent mailers talks of stripping pensions of public officials who are convicted of a felony; banning outside income for members of the Legislature; and banning the use of campaign funds to pay for legal fees.

Judges are allowed to strip pensions of public officials convicted of corruption, but it only applies to appointed and elected officials who joined the pension system after Nov. 13, 2011.

Cuomo and the Democrats said they agreed to make it easier to revoke the pensions of public officials convicted of corruption, require lawyer - legislators to report what they do to earn their outside income, and tighten per diem travel payments to legislators traveling to and from Albany.

«Instead, these are cases in which arrests have been made involving the delivery of regular, frequent and sometimes significant sums of money to small numbers of public officials by journalists.»

The decision of Mr. Justice Eric Kyei Baffour of the Commercial Division of the High Court, Accra, in the case of the Republic v Charlotte Osei and the Electoral Commission, Ex Parte Nduom, 28th October 2016, will forever remain a testimony to the resilience of Ghanaian jurisprudence to curb impunity, arbitrariness, abuse of power and abject arrogance on the part of public officials under the 1992 Constitution.

There are a litany of interesting regulations and restrictions included in the ACAO, including disclosure obligations related to so - called «behested payments» made on behalf of public officials and a new prohibition on certain political contributions made by entities with interests in specified land - use decisions.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore is being held for questioning by French judicial police Tuesday as part of an investigation into possible bribes of public officials in two African countries.

Ballot Proposal No. 1 to hold a New York Constitutional Convention has received more attention than the other two ballot proposals, drawing support and opposition from a wide variety of public officials and special - interest groups.

«It is now incumbent upon Bronx DA Clark to conduct a comprehensive and transparent investigation that examines the actions of all public officials involved in this failure that brought such an unnecessary tragedy,» said Pierre.

Corruption, educational or otherwise, should be fought with strong law enforcement, the election of public officials with integrity, and the vigilance of citizen's groups and a watchful press.

«Federal prosecutors do not shy away from difficult cases, especially those involving conduct of public officials who intertwine their public and private affairs, and we will continue to investigate such conduct and prosecute those case when the evidence warrants.»

The investigation into bribery of public officials by the tabloid is focused on «suspected criminality over a sustained period of time» involving tens of thousands of pounds.

Citizens have protested to keep the rules in place, in addition to calling offices of public officials to protect the internet.

Dayton visited the site with a group of public officials that included a senator, a mayor and state representatives.

So teachers are not happy with many of the public officials in the state of New York.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that there was sufficient evidence to convict the veteran legislator in two corruption schemes, but jury instructions didn't comply with a new Supreme Court decision narrowing the type of acts required of public officials in a quid - pro-quo bribery scheme to formal exercises of government power.

Take 5 minutes, find all the cases of public officials bribing private sector executives.

In his 2018 agenda, Cuomo also reiterated his support for a number of well - worn ethics and campaign finance laws that have failed to gain traction in the Legislature, including closing a loophole in election law that allows unlimited donations through a web of limited liability companies, public financing of political campaigns and limiting the outside income of public officials.

Federal prosecutors, whose court papers originally outed Huntley as a government mole, argued Tuesday in front of Judge Jack Weinstein that the release of the names of the public officials under investigation would violate their privacy and jeopardize the ongoing investigation.

It was good to see more of our public officials finally stepping to the plate on the controversy involving the proposal currently under consideration by the Coast Guard to park gigantic oil barges up and down the Hudson.

It was good to see more of our public officials finally stepping to the plate on the controversy involving the

They rallied outside the board room, with a series of public officials defending city schools while administrators and board members like Carl Paladino passed by.

The judgment drew a contrast between sections 149 and 150 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, on the one hand, and Section 308 (1)(c) of the Nigerian Constitution, on the other — a scenario which worked in favour of the four categories of the public officials clothed with constitutional immunity.

E-mail policies of public official's are drawing national attention with the controversy over Hillary Clinton's using a personal email account for government business when she was Secretary of State.

The fiscal year 2018 New York State Budget enacted the County - wide Shared Services Property Tax Savings Plan Law, which requires the chief executive officer of each of the 57 counties outside of New York City to convene a panel of public officials to develop, publically deliberate and vote upon county - wide shared service savings plans.