Sentences with phrase «official ethics investigation»

Not exact matches

«The only way to determine whether or not the State's second ranking public official committed an ethics violation is for the Moreland Commission to conduct a thorough investigation,» Cox said.

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.

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.»

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.

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

JCOPE, by contrast, has been the vulture of ethics enforcement; its condemnations of elected officials have been limited to those who have been made pariahs as a result of investigations by others.

However, it's unclear if the latest corruption news — including the FBI raid of Queens Assemblyman Bill Scarborough and the reported investigation into a land purchase by Senator Kathy Marchione — will spur officials to include ethics in the budget.

Federal officials have opened an investigation into activities by senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway following a complaint that she violated ethics laws when she slammed Democrat Doug Jones — who is battling Republican Roy Moore to become Alabama's next U.S. senator — on national TV.

A health care consultant with close ties to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did not violate state lobbying regulations when he contacted state officials on behalf of a Queens hospital seeking more Medicaid financing, a confidential investigation by the state ethics commission has determined.

I reported back in March, a source close to Cuomo said the AG would be unlikely to announce his candidacy until he cleared the decks of his various ethics investigations into fellow elected officials — including Gov. David Paterson and Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr..

The Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner leading the investigation into phone hacking has told the inquiry into media ethics that evidence of payments made by The Sun suggests a «network of corrupted officials.»