Sentences with phrase «public corruption in»

Nearly a year has passed since the New York Times published a series of lengthy articles questioning whether the Cuomo administration interfered with a Moreland Commission the governor created to investigate public corruption in the Legislature.

What they said: «In an age often decried for increasingly bitter partisanship, we can say that public corruption in New York is truly a bipartisan affair.»

«Although this chapter ends today, the FBI will continue the very important work of investigating public corruption in all its many forms,» Sweeney said.

I am committed to cracking down on all public corruption in our County regardless of politics or political party.

He asked Mr. Cuomo for a general referral to go after public corruption in the state — something he said Mr. Cuomo backed when he himself held Mr. Schneiderman's job — but was denied.

That's according to a co-chair of Governor Andrew Coumo's Moreland Act commission that's looking into public corruption in the state.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A commission charged with investigating public corruption in Albany said in its first report Monday that deep and comprehensive reform can not wait.

The chairman, William Fitzpatrick, also said that the commission, created by Governor Andrew Cuomo to investigate public corruption in Albany and recommend changes to state election and fund - raising law, has found «criminal behavior» through its investigations.

«Under Andrew Cuomo, public corruption in our state capital has become a national embarrassment, and robbed New Yorkers of the honest, trustworthy government they deserve,» Nixon said in a statement.

In further contrast to 2013, this year, IEs in City Council races, where some primary races were highly competitive, were higher than IEs in the mayoral primary, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has been seen as a heavy favorite all along, more so since evading an indictment for public corruption in March.

Rockland County Executive Ed Day said, «As I have been saying since I became county executive, we will stop at nothing to root out public corruption in every corner of this county.

When he shut down the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption in March, Cuomo set in motion events that would test his poise.

In related news, Cuomo yet again justified shutting down the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption in the 2014 budget deal.

As part of that approach, prosecutors could take the unusual step of producing a grand - jury report on systemic public corruption in the state capital.

It was complete inaction on the topic, after a year marked by the arrest of two sitting senators and one assemblyman, that led Cuomo to appoint the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption in July.

Cuomo said at a cabinet meeting earlier in the day that there are more opportunities for public corruption in the Legislature than in his branch of government.

The timing of the announcement, which followed through on a 2013 proposal, is worth noting: The large - scale destruction of state documents will be happening in the middle of a sprawling federal investigation of public corruption in Albany.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Federal prosecutors have tried and tried again to take on public corruption in New York, going after several of the state's most powerful politicians and power brokers.

Said Zugibe, «We have a formal Memo of Understanding with the FBI, focusing on public corruption in Rockland County.»

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo faces many hurdles when he takes office in January, so here's one shortcut to ethics reform: He should hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.

Data compiled by Dr. Jeffrey Milyo and Scott Delhommer on state - level public corruption in the last decade.

Less than three weeks after the election, a passage appeared in a New York Times editorial urging Cuomo to «hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.»

The AG said that Wednesday's indictment was part of an ongoing investigation into public corruption in Queens.

«It is deeply disturbing that the Board of Elections would consider gutting one of the few tools that exist to root out public corruption in New York — or sideline a dedicated professional like Risa Sugarman who is committed to upholding the rule of law.»

Federal prosecutors have launched «an assault on the criminal opacity of Albany,» in the words of one Justice Department official, and could take the unusual step of producing a grand - jury report on systemic public corruption in the state Capitol.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan picked up his second tabloid endorsement this morning, landing the support of the Daily News, which said the Republican's years of prosecutorial experience and lack of political ties to Albany make him «best suited» to clean up public corruption in state government.

Three weeks after the Moreland Commission — which Governor Cuomo founded in 2013 — was due to release its report on public corruption in New York State, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested by federal authorities on charges of taking millions in bribes and kickbacks.

Howard Master, who helped lead the CityTime payroll and Sheldon Silver cases, will now work for New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as senior enforcement counsel, focusing on issues relating to the Trump White House and public corruption in general.

One top Republican New York state lawmaker doesn't think there is any kind of new law that will end the public corruption in Albany.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse), who is deputy Senate majority leader, says he hears all the time from New Yorkers who say state laws should be changed to stop public corruption in Albany.

It's an initiative aimed at stopping public corruption in the state.

It had been reported that the charges stem from the aborted Moreland Commission, tasked with looking at public corruption in the state.

Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said it would be «dangerous» to put the responsibility of fighting public corruption in the hands of her AG opponent, Sen. Eric Schneiderman.

However, another prominent Republican, Onondaga county district attorney Bill Fitzpatrick — who is investigating public corruption in the state as the co-chair of the Moreland Commission — thinks public financing would be an excellent use of public money, leading to long - term savings for taxpayers.

A Siena College poll this week shows that most New Yorkers don't know about the Moreland Commission, a panel of district attorneys and law enforcement officials investigating public corruption in Albany.

The commission that's been delving into public corruption in New York state will release a preliminary report to Gov. Andrew Cuomo this weekend.

Cuomo insisted he had «no concerns at all» about Schneiderman's ability to investigate public corruption in the Legislature after being a member of it since 1998.

Because public corruption in New York, from all the available evidence, appears pervasive and because it is more than a prosecutor's problem.

Bharara had risen to prominence as a federal prosecutor in part for his aggressive pursuit of public corruption in city and state government.

Not exact matches

The first trial involving a charge under the Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act was concluded this past summer, and resulted in a conviction.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.

Back when the teams were born, global anti-corruption advocates accused Canada of failing to enforce its Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), introduced in 1999.

Recently former president Fernando de la Rúa was charged with bribing senators in the 2000 election and current president Cristina Kirchner has faced harsh public criticism over rampant corruption as well.

Bollore, whose logistics empire is a powerhouse in former French colonies across West Africa, is suspected of corrupting foreign public officials and complicity in corruption, his lawyer has said.

Wang, who heads China's top anti-graft agency and is in charge of public discipline, was the key target of Chinese dissident Guo Wengui's allegations of corruption in the highest party ranks.

With approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.

But then again, so is demographics, water scarcity, technological change, creativity, policy choices, public sentiment, corruption, cultural differences, new forms of energy and a myriad of other factors, all interacting in unpredictable ways.

Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), a product of this era, became law in 1999.

Before Comey tapped him to lead the Richmond office in 2014, he was section chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section, investigating some of the highest profile cases against government officials and civil rights violations in recent years.