Sentences with phrase «public ethics laws»

Bharara's statement comes on the eve of Cuomo's sixth State of the State address, where he will once again propose reforms to the state's public ethics laws.

New York's leading good government groups gathered at Manhattan's Foley Square Wednesday to call on the New York State legislature and the governor to take immediate action to reform public ethics laws.

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Disclosure is consistent with public policy, in the best interest of the Company and its shareholders, and critical for compliance with federal ethics laws.

Because of the tendency in Luther and the reformers to distinguish between grace and law» understandable relative to late - medieval scholasticism» Protestants ever since have erected a false dichotomy between grace and law that has had debilitating effects in theology, ethics, and public policy.

A post-Enlightenment public square sounds positively tribal: it would mean Muslims arguing for Shari'a law and Christians arguing from the Bible about sexual ethics.

And the laws that forbid all manner of discrimination seem to emanate from a disinterested public «ethic,» suitably cleansed of any sectarian shading.

Where positivist reason dominates the field to the exclusion of all else - and that is broadly the case in our public mindset - then the classical sources of knowledge for ethics and law are excluded.

I am as concerned with the great pool of public sentiment out of which the laws arise and are applied — the «ethos» of the people that is the subject of «ethics» — as I am with the legal issues.

My thesis is that the many visions of perfection are more or less the same or at least analogical, and therefore if each Faith keeps its ethics of law dynamic within the framework of and in tension with its own transcendent vision of perfection, the different religious and secular Faiths can have a fruitful dialogue at depth on the nature of human alienation which makes love impossible and for updating our various approaches to personal and public law with greater realism with insights from each other.

If each Faith keeps its ethics of law dynamic within the framework of and in tension with its own transcendent vision of perfection, the different religious and secular Faiths can have a fruitful dialogue on the nature of human alienation which makes love impossible and for updating our various approaches to personal and public law with greater realism with insights from each other.

Also at 11 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Department of Law Corporation Counsel Lawrence R. Porcari will hold a press conference to announce new anti-corruption and public ethics measures, which include full funding of an independent Inspector General as required by Mount Vernon charter, City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square, Mount Vernon.

Another provision would apply much of the ethics provisions from the public officers law to state procurement officials.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former top aide — Percoco, now on trial for bribery — broke the state's public officers law.

• 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.

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Governor Cuomo and his top aide, Joe Percoco, now on trial for bribery, broke the state's public officers law.

Silver announced last night that he would introduce a resolution to begin the process of expelling the sleazy Brooklyn lawmaker in the wake of a scathing report by a state ethics committee that found Lopez sexually harassed women in his office and violated the state's Public Officers Law.

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

Klein and Cuomo had sought public finance and other reforms, as part of a budget deal, but in the end settled for a more limited ethics package that would strengthen the regulation of campaign violations and enact stiffer anti bribery laws.

The state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which polices violations of state ethics law, is effectively controlled by Cuomo's office.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

But public financing of elections, a system designed to take the big money out of politics, would be «key» to any ethical reforms of state government, he said Wednesday at a daylong symposium on ethics and government at Albany Law School.

Asked again whether he regretted his controversial decision to shut down the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption, Cuomo cited ethics laws passed by the Legislature in exchange for the shutdown.

The governor has maintained that the commission served its purpose — «to educate the public [and] to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws, which they did,» he said in 2015 — and that it was entirely within his purview to shut it down.

that the commission served its purpose — «to educate the public [and] to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws, which they did,»

These measures will create the strongest and most comprehensive ethics laws for public officials of any state in the nation,» said Governor Cuomo.

Working with the new majority in the Erie County legislature, I have been able to secure a new ethics law that increases transparency and reinforces public faith in the integrity of elected officials.

They also want the signature requirement for delegates to be reduced, to make it easier for members of the public to run, and they say current freedom of information laws, and lobbying and ethics standards should apply to the convention's proceedings.

That commission was to spur, to educate the public, to spur the Legislature to pass ethics laws — which they did.

Formal advisory opinions are required to be made public, though the 2011 law that created the ethics watchdog panel prevents it from releasing informal advisory opinions, which are issued by JCOPE's staff.

Scott asked a state public ethics commission to investigate whether Robert Haggerty, O'Hara's boss as the former first deputy director of the Department of Agriculture & Markets, violated state law by steering contracts to favored bidders.

In the ad, Gaughran compares this with his own tenure in public service, taking credit for writing ethics laws on the local level.

Despite appearing jointly together, both Skelos and Silver are far apart on whether to allow public financing of campaigns to move forward, a coming flashpoint in the effort to overhaul campaign finance and ethics laws in the wake of two corruption scandals.

Lawmakers on Monday said they expected Republicans to remain opposed to public financing, but did not rule out a different ethics reform package that includes tightening anti-bribery and corruption laws.

Instead, Ryan filed an ethics complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics pointing to testimony in a Yonkers corruption trial from disbarred attorney Anthony Mangone that alleged Libous had arranged for his son to receive a job at a law firm paid for by $ 50,000 from a lobbying organization.

Cuomo did win ethics legislation in recent years that included new income disclosure laws for state lawmakers and statewide elected officials as well as new crimes for bribery and public corruption.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, said, «What has been reported could mean that there's a gaping hole in New York's ethics laws.

However, in June 2011 Cuomo reached a deal with the Legislature that started a new ethics body - the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE)- and passed a law to require stricter disclosure on legislators» outside income.

«There can be no question that a full ethics investigation into this improper exertion of state legislative influence by Senator Libous is required, either by virtue of this complaint or on the Commission's own initiative, in order to hold the state senator fully accountable to the standards of ethical conduct and public integrity state law requires of all members of the legislature.»

Gross also said the ethics board is in a difficult position as an agency that keeps the financial disclosure records open for public inspection, while the board and its staff are barred by the county ethics law from disclosing confidential information.

But Democratic Sen. John Sampson said the data was all public and he didn't violate any laws or ethics rules against the release of confidential information.

Haven, with NYPIRG, believes, based on his study of the new law that set up the ethics commission, that the public likely won't see details of any donations to the Committee to Save New York from 2011.

MANHATTAN — Police Commissioner Bill Bratton reminded top NYPD brass Tuesday that they risk their jobs and their freedom if they fail to adhere to ethics laws and department regulations surrounding the acceptance of gifts from the business community or the public.

«We give advice, we examine public office law violations and ethics violations.

The Commission oversees compliance by public officers with ethics laws and by lobbyists with the state laws that govern lobbying in order to avoid conflicts of interest on the part of those holding elected office or public employment in the State of New York.

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.

After Libous» conviction of a single felony count of lying to the FBI about using his public post to get his son, Matthew, a job at a politically connected law firm — a decision that automatically ejected him from his Senate seat — six good government groups renewed their call for a special legislative session to address ethics reform.

Ethics regulations do require lobbyists and clients to disclose business transactions with state officials, but the 2011 ethics law appears to exclude reporting any dealings with a public official's residence.

«A political earthquake has hit Albany,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which has pushed for a special session this year to enact tougher ethics laws.

The 2011 law that created the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) to be the top ethics watchdog in the state contained a proviso that the body would be periodically reviewed to find ways to improve its functioning.