Sentences with phrase «own ethics enforcement»
Yesterday, the Joint Committee on Public Ethics — New York's ethics enforcement agency — selected Seth Agata as its new executive director.
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Albany needs to can the LLC loophole, limit outside income, create greater budget transparency and boost ethics enforcement,» said NYPIRG Legislative Counsel Russ Haven.
«Our only knowledge of the reported investigation by the District Attorney, the State ethics enforcement body, or U.S. Attorney's Office of the mayor is what has been reported in the news,» Azzopardi said.
Additionally, the problem of Albany corruption again being addressed not by internal state watchdogs, but instead by the U.S. Attorney who this month is prosecuting charges against the two most recent former legislative leaders, demonstrates the clear need to strengthen our state's own ethics enforcement.
Spitzer said he was a «f — ing steamroller» who would roll over Tedisco as he criticized the governor for cutting him out of negotiations on an ethics enforcement bill.
Good - government groups called on Cuomo and lawmakers to take action now to strengthen oversight of government contracting and boost ethics enforcement.
Seth Agata, recently appointed the head of the state ethics enforcement agency, JCOPE, is Governor Cuomo's former top lawyer.
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.
Citizens» Union said in a statement that good government groups have long called for increased oversight and enforcement from the state and city's various ethics enforcement bodies.
«Even when compared to the rest of the nation, New York's ethics enforcement ranks poorly: In a 2012 comparison of state ethics laws, New York's ethics enforcement received a grade of «F,»» the groups wrote.
Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in a statement noted the conference has backed many of the recommendations in the past, which includes public financing and a tightening of ethics enforcement.
New York received a grade of «F» in four categories — state budgeting process, redistricting, ethics enforcement, and pension fund management.
ALBANY — Lawmakers left the Capitol on Thursday without an agreement on how to restructure ethics enforcement in state government.
DiFiore presided over the first 16 months of the commission's existence after Cuomo pushed an ethics enforcement overhaul in Albany.
Within minutes of the verdict, good - government groups called on Cuomo and lawmakers to take action this year to strengthen oversight of government contracting and boost ethics enforcement.
While JCOPE is an improvement on its predecessor, the ethics enforcement agency was criticized this week for neglecting to focus on legislators» behavior in their home districts — for instance, Pedro Espada's embezzlement scandal, which occurred not in Albany but in Espada's home district in the Bronx.
What is notable is what is not in the agreement — legislative compensation overhaul, desperately needed stronger ethics enforcement with greater public transparency of votes, comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing that closes the LLC loophole and bans all personal use of campaign funds, strong disclosure and accountability for all executive and legislative discretionary lump sum funds, and a commitment to undertake the necessary examination and full - scale overhaul of our ethics and campaign finance laws.
Dick Dadey of the Citizens Union good - government group, who supported Agata's choice, «Given the need for our public ethics enforcement agency to be as transparent as possible, providing this information seems like a no - brainer to me.»
«There is pervasive conflict of interest under Governor Cuomo, including in the areas of ethics enforcement he has a hand in,» said John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany.
And his diagnosis was correct: the key to real reform — and success in ending Albany's ethical weaknesses — was, and is, the establishment of an independent ethics enforcement agency that would enforce New York law without fear or favor.
That must include the creation of an ethics enforcement commission to investigate misdeeds in both the Legislature and the executive branch, including the governor's office.
In his 2016 message, Cuomo expressed support for a constitutional convention because, as he said, «From ethics enforcement to the basic rules governing day - to - day business in Albany, the process of government in New York state is broken.»
Meanwhile, two ethics enforcement units created under Cuomo's watch appear either slow to action or crippled by infighting.
«Politically, it makes sense as part of a negotiated deal to get stronger ethics enforcement, but I would hope that investigations would continue under someone, because the commission uncovered a great deal of misconduct.»
DiFiore presided over the first 16 months of the commission's existence after Cuomo pushed an ethics enforcement overhaul.
Other Democrats, including Cuomo rival Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, have been advocating a special session to take on an overhaul of ethics enforcement.
«Politically, it makes sense as part of a negotiated deal to get stronger ethics enforcement, but I would hope that investigations would continue under someone, because the commission uncovered a great deal of misconduct.»
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Our long - held ethics enforcement, mediation, and arbitration procedures for handling monetary disputes and other ethics complaints have also undergone a thorough review.
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The board is made up of eight members from computer science, policing, ethics, privacy and law enforcement backgrounds.
Cuomo's subpoena - empowered commission was close down following an agreement on ethics legislation last year that included new anti-corruption laws and independent enforcement at the state Board of Elections.
The issue first came to light in a leaked memorandum from the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, Risa Sugarman, a position formed in 2014 following an ethics agreement in the budget and the shuttering of the Moreland Commission, a panel formed to investigate corruption in the Legislature.
His current research is on public ethics and the machinery of public integrity enforcement in western Europe.
• Transforming the ethical environment in Government: Governor Cuomo's «Clean Up Albany» agenda would institute campaign finance reforms including a system of public financing for elections, limits on contribution levels, creating an independent redistricting commission, creating independent monitoring and enforcement of ethics laws, and requiring full disclosure of outside income and clients.
«During the campaign, I made a commitment that we would either pass real ethics reform with real disclosure and real enforcement or I would form a Moreland Commission on public integrity,» the governor cotinued.
And I'm going to push the legislature very hard to adopt more aggressive ethics legislation, more disclosure, more enforcement, etcetera.»
«We are pleased to finally see some long overdue enforcement take place,» Citizens» Union said, while also calling on JCOPE to exercise «even - handed and fair - minded vigilance in pursuing any and all possible ethics violations that are within its purview, regardless of where they may lead.»
«It's always been a desert when it comes to enforcement of ethics and contracting laws at the state level,» Horner said.
Both laws also bar city officials from holding an ownership stake in businesses which have contracts with the city and establish an ethics board to oversee enforcement of the provisions.
In particular, he wants it to create a state ethics control board that is independent and has «robust enforcement powers» over both the Legislature and the governor's offices.If that doesn't happen in the first six months, Mr. Cuomo says he will indeed allow Mr. Schneiderman's office to become Albany's one - stop, anti-sleaze operation.
Gov. Cuomo repeated a threat he's made several times in his effort to win approval for a tough ethics reform bill now pending in the Legislature, one that would finally put teeth into enforcement.
Eliminate the stratified oversight bodies and establish a single, independent ethics commission with robust enforcement powers to investigate and prosecute violations that members of either the executive and legislative branches commit.»
During the speech, Cuomo announced a seven - point «justice agenda,» which would appoint an independent monitor to have access to grand jury information, recruit more minorities into law enforcement, fund body cameras and bulletproof patrol cars in high crime areas and provide race and ethic data on police actions, among other things.
I mean, part of the problem we've seen in Albany is that, other than the U.S. Attorney, there really hasn't been the sort of independent enforcement of the state ethics laws that we believe needs to be done.»
The governor's failure to «establish an independent State ethics commission with robust enforcement powers» will leave him open to the attacks from County Executive Astorino, and other possible candidates, that he hasn't adequately dealt with Albany's ethical woes.
He can ensure enforcement by a truly independent ethics watchdog with the resources necessary to identify and prosecute those who violate state laws.
But other good - government types said that as an elected law enforcement official DiFiore will still be raising fund - raising dollars — a less - than - ideal arrangement for a top ethics watchdog.
«Reform ethics oversight and enforcement» by making changes to JCOPE's structure, scope, and voting procedures to increase transparency and independence.
Akshar says that ethics is a problem in Albany but emphasized the enforcement of laws already in place.
A BOE enforcement mechanism wasn't adopted until 2014 in an ethics package Cuomo reached with the legislature after he agreed to kill The Moreland Commission on Public Corruption.