Sentences with phrase «over the ethics commission»

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.

The ultimate irony is, were there such control over the ethics commission, as implied by this report, the administration would have received favorable rulings within a very short turnaround.

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The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

Cuomo's own ethics commission was scuttled by the governor himself before being taken over by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who went on to successfully prosecute the leaders of both state houses.

Cuomo created the ethics commission under the state's Moreland Act a little over a year ago amidst rampant corruption rampant in the legislature, that included a string of indictments, resignations and jailings of lawmakers.

Leaders of the New York state legislature are in court fighting a request from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's ethics commission that they turn over details about their private law clients.

The fallout continues over whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aide interfered with an ethics commission probe, with some now saying that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman could have done more to protect the integrity of the investigations.

When the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) was formed just over one year ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders had high hopes for an ethics panel that replaced a much - maligned former panel.

Dadey, with Citizens Union, says that over one year since the commission was signed into law, the probe of the Assembly speaker's actions, if it is indeed occurring, is the first true test of the new ethics commission.

Much of the work by the Moreland Commission is ongoing, the report says, but it hopes its recommendations will fuel discussions between the governor and top legislators over a new ethics package that has been under discussion by Cuomo and top lawmakers for months.

DiFiore presided over the first 16 months of the commission's existence after Cuomo pushed an ethics enforcement overhaul in Albany.

The Campaign for One New York, the nonprofit created by Mayor Bill de Blasio to advance his policy agenda, has been ordered to hand over documents and correspondence between itself and the mayor to the state's ethics commission, a State Supreme Court judge ruled last week.

When the Joint Commission on Public Ethics was formed just over one year ago, Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders had high hopes for an ethics panel that replaced a much maligned former panel.

Now, with Cuomo on the defensive over a scandal involving his ethics commission, Astorino says he's seeing some gains in fundraising and interest in his campaign.

The questions over Ethics Chair DiFiore's domestic help is not the only controversy connected to the ethics commission.

Republican John DeFrancisco urged the ethics and lobbying regulators at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics on Monday to sack its executive director, Seth Agata, over what the state lawmaker is an unwillingness to investigate Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The now - defunct Campaign for One New York has been ordered by a judge to comply with a subpoena and hand over documents between itself and the mayor to a state ethics commission.

Cuomo's office sought to exert influence over the panel, seeking to direct or block subpoenas from the commission in order to get state lawmakers to agree to an ethics package.

Dadey, with Citizens Union says that over one year since the commission was signed into law, the probe of the Assembly Speaker's actions, if it is indeed occurring, is the first true test of the new ethics commission.

AFP recently reached a $ 70,000 settlement with the state's lobbying and ethics regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, over Adam Skelos» hiring.

The poll, conducted over four days last week, is the first to account for the breadth of negative coverage Cuomo's received in the weeks since the publication of a 6,000 - word story in the New York Times on July 23 that detailed the administration's handling of the ethics commission, which the governor abruptly shuttered in April this year.

ALBANY — Three weeks after Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration was engulfed in scandal over his office's handling of the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, only a third of New Yorkers have heard of the now - defunct ethics panel.

We would prefer to report that there is a breakthrough on ethics reform and that Gov. Cuomo will announce that Preet Bharara will preside over a new, improved Moreland Commission, but obviously we are dreaming.

The commissioner appointed by Senate Democrats, Ravi Batra, resigned over the weekend, saying he'd asked the FBI to investigate the inner workings of the ethics commission.

But by April of the following year, after facing strident resistance from lawmakers over the authority of the commission, Cuomo announced the investigation would disband after a deal was reached with legislators over a new package of ethics reforms Cuomo said obviated the need for the commission.

As the Lopez - Silver scandal erupted, a Silver deputy tried to force the victims to keep their mouths shut, and when the ethics commission subpoenaed documents, Silver's office failed to turn over all incriminating materials.

DiFiore presided over the first 16 months of the commission's existence after Cuomo pushed an ethics enforcement overhaul.

Town supervisor Sylvia Rozzelle introduced the recently installed members of the police commission, putting to rest an ethics dispute over a donated generator that disrupted local politics over the past few months.

She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.

The latest in the salacious saga of Michigan Judge Wade McCree has been making the law blog rounds this week (via Jonathan Turley, Above the Law), with the release of McCree's answer to the state Judicial Tenure Commission's complaint against him over a series of alleged ethics violations related to his sexual relationship with a complaining witness in a child support case.

In keeping with the tenor of Judge McDonald's entire ethics proceeding, in a post-reprimand interview, he referred to the Judicial Conduct Commission as «clowns who can't figure out they have no authority over me.

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