Sentences with phrase «per diem payments»

The Assembly increased per diem payments for members who visit the Capitol for official business.

Mr. Schneiderman also proposed ending per diem payments to legislators, who receive $ 172 each day they are in Albany and are not required to submit receipts — an honor system which has been cited as ripe for abuse.

In addition, the 41 Assembly members and 20 Senators who attended received $ 30,800 in per diem payments along with $ 16,294 in travel — mostly by southern lawmakers to get to Carson City.

Abuses of what's known as per diem payments to legislators has also led to arrests and jailing.

Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. of Brooklyn is facing federal mail fraud charges related to allegations that he filed bogus travel vouchers and collected per diem payments for days the lawmaker falsely claimed he was in Albany on legislative business.

Top ten recipients of per diem payments among members of the New York State Assembly and Senate through June 30:

In the meantime, he says his office and federal prosecutors will continue to scrutinize lawmakers whose per diem payments and other travel expenses don't add up.

«I certainly think we're better off raising legislative salaries,» said Schneiderman, who believes per diem payments provide the wrong financial incentives, since it encourages lawmakers to stay in Albany instead of their home districts when the legislature is not in session.

Freshman Republican Sen. Sue Serino's second TV ad of her re-election campaign focuses on her refusal to accept per diem payments for traveling to Albany.

Scarborough received $ 59,085 in per diem payments between 2010 and 2011.

ALBANY --- Revelations that legislators are getting higher per diem payments for their living expenses in Albany have prompted a Long Island state senator to call for reforms.

In a damning speech this spring, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman urged the State Legislature to prohibit outside income for legislators and end per diem payments.

Scarborough said he believed the FBI inquiry was triggered by a «hit job» in a New York City tabloid — an apparent reference to an October 2012 article in the New York Post that detailed the more than $ 59,000 in per diem payments he collected in 2010 and 2011.

In their cross hairs from the outset were the pots of money that had long spawned scandals in the Legislature: campaign donations and spending; the easy - to - abuse expense reimbursements known as per diem payments; and the outside income that some lawmakers earned in lucrative part - time jobs, often at law firms representing clients with business before the state.

ALBANY — Staking out a broad vision of ethics reform amid a swirl of other proposals in the capital, New York's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, called for an elimination of all outside jobs for state legislators and the end of a widely criticized system of per diem payments.

Saying incremental attempts at reform had not been enough to stave off corruption in Albany, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman today called for the end of all outside income and per diem payments for members of the State Legislature.

$ 172 per diem payments to cover food and Albany lodging during session, plus reimbursements for transportation.

Last year, he received $ 23,441 in mileage and per diem payments, third - highest among Assembly members.

In 2012, state Assembly leaders proposed raising the per diem payments for members who go to the Capitol on official business.

Schneiderman has been probing alleged per diem abuse, and his work has led to the indictment of at least one lawmaker, Assemblyman William Scarborough, who's accused of wrongly receiving $ 40,000 in travel reimbursements and per diem payments that he was not entitled to.

The indictment says that Boyland received «tens of thousands of dollars» in mileage expenses and per diem payments that he was not entitled to collect.

The charges stem from an investigation into Mr. Scarborough's per diem payments — the money Albany lawmakers are paid in expenses for each day they report they are staying in Albany, the subject of much scrutiny in conversations surrounding ethics reforms.

In his federal plea, Mr. Scarborough admitted that he submitted vouchers for $ 54,355 in per diem payments he was not entitled to, falsely claiming he had been in Albany when he was not.

«We should end per diem payments.

In addition to ending outside income, Mr. Schneiderman also called for an end to per diem payments to Albany legislators — $ 172 a day doled out to lawmakers to cover their expenses for traveling to Albany, without receipts required.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will call for an overhaul of Albany's ethics laws, including an end to outside income and per diem payments, and an increase in legislative pay, in a speech to the good government group Citizens Union on Monday evening.

Higher startup costs, such as vehicles and other equipment, contributed, but the bulk of the bill was due to per diem payments that Tanzania charged WHO for the services of government vets.

As a relatively new line of criticism coming from climate change skeptics, Myron Ebell argued that delegates from Third World countries largely appear at events such as talks in Lima just to collect a per diem payment and «shop in glamouris cities,» as phrased by the Republic Report in their article «Deniers» Latest Attack on UN Summit: Poor Countries» Delegates Show Up Just for the Per Diem.»

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During their studies at the academy, Air Traffic Control Specialist trainees earn a salary of between $ 20,527 and $ 27,942, plus a per diem payment to help with living expenses.