Sentences with phrase «preventing bid rigging»

«Overall, Schwartz's recommendations are focused on preventing fraudulent or poorly documented billing and not on preventing bid rigging of the kind alleged to have taken place,» nonprofit watchdog Reinvent Albany opined last year.

«Overall, Schwartz's recommendations are focused on preventing fraudulent or poorly documented billing and not on preventing bid rigging of the kind alleged to have taken place,» nonprofit watchdog Reinvent Albany

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making some changes to prevent any future bid - rigging in some of his major economic development projects.

Governor Cuomo is making some changes to prevent any future bid rigging in some of his major economic development projects, but critics on both the left and the right say the governor is failing to address the bigger picture — whether the $ 8.6 billion dollars» worth of programs are an effective use of public monies.

With just three scheduled days left in the legislative session and the corruption trial of several close associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo for their roles in a bid - rigging scandal scheduled to commence in October, the Legislature has yet to pass any meaningful legislation to prevent such abuses of the procurement process.

FPI and other organizations gathered in the Capitol to ask lawmakers to pass reforms that would expand New York State's contracting guidelines in order to oversee economic development projects and to prevent other bribery and bid - rigging scandals.

This article discusses the failure of lawmakers to implement ethical reforms that would prevent bid - rigging scandals in economic development contracts.

An article in the Saratogian, that quotes FPI's executive director Ron Deutsch, discussed the failure of the Senate and Assembly to pass a routine school governance extender and reforms to prevent future bid - rigging scandals.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is making some changes to prevent any future bid - rigging in some of his major economic development projects.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo used part of his budget address to the press last night to reveal a plan to prevent ethical improprieties involving companies seeking business with the state — months after a pair of his top lieutenants and several executives from companies that donated to his campaign got indicted on charges of bid - rigging and bribery.

But the criminal charges, brought last week by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as well as state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, have sparked widespread calls for more oversight and check - off procedures to prevent the kind of bid - rigging and pay - to - play allegations facing the defendants.

«Greenland has condemned as illegal a protest by Greenpeace activists who scaled an oil rig in a bid to prevent a British company from drilling in Arctic waters off the North Atlantic island.»