Sentences with phrase «of the ethics violations»

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.
Now, almost two months later, Panepinto will not reveal whether he has received notification from JCOPE, the panel that investigates charges of ethics violations.
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.»
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.
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.
Oh, but wait, Charlie Rangel is indicted on 13 counts of ethics violations and it gets regulated to a lesser headline.
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.
Representative Charles B. Rangel, in the Capitol on Monday, has given no hint about his plans after being found guilty of ethics violations.
(CNN)- An ethics committee in South Carolina on Friday cleared Republican Governor Nikki Haley of ethics violations.
MANHATTAN — Rep. Charles Rangel was found guilty Tuesday on 11 counts of ethics violations, a House panel found.
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.
Heaney, while accusing Faso of ethics violations, says he did it to stop Hillary Clinton.
charlie rangel is still in congress after all of his ethics violations.
(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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
You are entitled to report your lawyer in the case of any ethics violations.
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.»
In one of the scams, real estate professionals receive a fake NAR text that says they owe a fine because of an ethics violation.
I have known people waiting for years to bring home children when countries close because of ethics violations.

Not exact matches

In response, the fund's ethics council began an ongoing assessment of whether any of the companies in the fund might be involved in human rights violations (forced labour particularly) in Eritrea.
The documents CREW cites are the same documents that were examined by Treasury's Inspector General in his review of Treasury's travel, in which he identified no violation of law, regulation, or ethics requirements,» Sayegh said.
Note: If you have partners, add firings, resignations, retirements, arrests, loss of license, loss of malpractice and ethics violations to list.
The only Speaker of the House that ever had to pay $ 300,000 for an investigation in reference to his ethics violations and you think he should be President?
The only Speaker of the House ever removed from that position for ethics violations.
110,000,000 adult American cases of STDs are proof that violations of the Judeo Christian ethic do not go unnoticed by those laws as inviolable as gravity.
«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).
According to the FaithTrust Institute, «Sexual contact or sexualized behavior within the ministerial relationship is a violation of professional ethics.
For Christians this was evident several years ago when the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States condemned even the possession of nuclear weapons as a violation of the just war ethic.
He reported Warner's possible violations of FIFA's ethics code to the soccer body's secretary general, Jerome Valcke.
Disbarred For ethics violations during his handling of the Duke lacrosse rape case, Durham County, N.C., district attorney Mike Nifong.
«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.
Ethics Violations Allegations of violation to this code of ethics brought - forth on any good - standing member of the IACSC should be submitted in writing to the IACSC Ethics Committee.
«If Lieutenant Gov. Duffy indeed failed to disclose the nature of his relationship with the Rochester Business Alliance to Gov. Cuomo, that would represent a major violation of state ethics laws.
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.»
The Conservative Party spoke on Friday night — they can no longer tolerate the buying and selling of power that is a violation of ethics, if not laws, and that's detrimental to voters who pay taxes.
That would have made sense, since ethics — and bringing it back to Albany — is a big part of Cuomo's gubernatorial platform, and to connect himself with a guy who has been charged with 13 different ethics violations isn't exactly in keeping with his message.
Four NYC workers punished for ethics violations include a vehicle - fleet manager who admitted using an agency car to drive his mom to a Pier 1 Imports store in Freeport on Black Friday to shop for a chair, according to the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.
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.
These letters show that the objective of the administration was truly to stop Mr. Romaine from acting in a manner that was detrimental to the taxpayers and in violation of the county ethics code.
We believe this is a big mistake and further undermine the credibility of an agency that has struggled to independently and effectively investigate and enforce violations of state ethics laws by the governor, legislature, state employees, and -LSB-...]
«It raises the question of massive violations of state anti-corruption laws and ethics laws.»
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