Sentences with phrase «ranking public official»
«The only way to determine whether or not the State's second ranking public official committed an ethics violation is for the Moreland Commission to conduct a thorough investigation,» Cox said.
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For a high ranking public official in the Roman Empire, these ideas are treasonous.
As I mentioned in the commentary, most believe that his title indicates he was a high ranking public official.
We don't know who he was exactly, but the title Luke gives him, most excellent Theophilus, hints that he may have been some sort of high ranking public official.
Audrey Wall, the managing editor of The Council of State Governments» The Book of the States, has perfected the game of hunting down the salaries of high - ranking public officials for 17 editions of the book.
We may not be high - ranking public officials, but the challenge of Jesus remains.
According to SERAP, «Imposing targeted anticorruption sanctions against those accused of grand corruption in Nigeria would help to deter corrupt behaviour by high - ranking public officials.
Consequently, in July 2017 Hon Justice Hadiza Rabiu Shagari following a Freedom of Information suit number: FHC / CS / 964 / 2016 ordered the Nigerian government to widely disseminate including on a dedicated website information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered since May 2015 and to disclose the circumstances under which funds were returned.»
«SERAP believes that the recoveries, specifically from high - ranking public officials (and not private individuals), are matters of public interest.
This came on the heels of the heels of the recent disclosure of funds recovered from some high - ranking public officials and private individuals.
The request reads in part: «While we believe that suspects generally are entitled to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction, SERAP opposes blanket non-disclosure of names of high - ranking public officials from whom some of the funds were recovered.»
The roundtable will assess the on - going fight against corruption, and is expected to come up with key programme agenda for among others mobilising Nigerians to get involved in the fight against corruption, and agenda for increasing the tempo of the anti-corruption fight including by revisiting outstanding cases of high - level official corruption and prosecuting high - ranking public officials.
Justice Aikawa further agreed with the submission of ICPC's counsel, E. A. Shogunle, that the 1st Respondent, ICPC, had established that there were reasonable grounds to suspect that certain high - ranking public officials and lawyers acted in abuse of their offices to facilitate a breach of contract with Chief Afe Babalola in order to confer corrupt advantage upon themselves in violation of sections 19 and 25 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.
He said, «President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all relevant agencies to compile documents on names of all looters with a view to promptly enforcing the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the government to release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered.»
«The bill is also counterproductive, especially at a time Nigerians are witnessing a sprawling gap in accountability for grand corruption, and high - ranking public officials accused of corruption are getting away with reduced punishment, and allowed to keep their ill - gotten wealth.»
SERAP had last year approached the court praying that the court should order the Federal Government to name the high - ranking public officials and private individuals, they recovered looted funds from.
«To widely disseminate including on a dedicated website information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered since May 2015The circumstances under which stolen public funds were returned.»
In 2009 he won a bruising citywide election for Gotham's second - ranked public official (after the mayor), the public advocate, which Manhattan Institute fellow Sol Stern says, «is a campaign office» for mayor.
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An individual making the statement may also have the protection of an «absolute privilege» or immunity, such as the president or other high ranking public officials who enjoy absolute immunity for statements made «in the course of their official acts.»
Not exact matches
«We believe that public officials must be held to a higher standard, and whether intentional or not, misusing taxpayer dollars is unacceptable,» wrote Sens. Johnny Isakson, R - Ga., and Jon Tester, D - Mont., chairman and ranking member of the Senate committee, and Reps. Phil Roe, R - Tenn., and Tim Walz, D - Minn., chairman and ranking member of the House committee.
The first is the Traffic Light (TL) system, developed by the UK Food Standards Agency, where nutrients of greatest public health significance (total fat, saturated fat, sugar and sodium) are ranked and colour - coded as either high (red), medium (amber) or low (green), based on cut - points established by the European Regulation for Nutrition and Health Claims (Official Journal of the European Union, 2006).
SERAP argues that the public interest in publishing the names of the high - ranking government officials from whom funds were received outweighs any considerations to withhold the information, as there would be no prejudice against those whose names are published as long as the information is appropriately framed and truthful.»
«Sadly, we're getting confronted with public officials who are alleged to have abused their positions of trust, in this case the highest - ranking elected official in Nassau County and in the Town of Oyster Bay, for their own corrupt benefit, thereby abusing the public trust,» Robert L. Capers, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said at a news conference.
Senator Savino, a former high ranking union official, says municipal union leaders in New York City have not yet been adequately briefed on a policy that would represent a big change for public pensions.
That law allowed for the pensions of subsequently elected legislators to be taken after a criminal conviction, and defined «public official» in a way that also included rank - and - file state employees but excluded police officers, firefighters and teachers.
Over the past few weeks, a series of loosely related public corruption investigations coordinated by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara have spilled into public view, with targets including high - ranking New York Police Department officials, the union representing city jail guards, and the political fundraising activities of several people with ties to New York City's mayor.
«When the two highest ranking members of the Senate Democrat Conference oppose a measure to give the public a mechanism to remove a corrupt statewide official or County Executive from office, you know they're not really serious about reform,» Reif said.
JCOPE adopted a pair of controversial advisory opinions intended to tighten fund - raising restrictions for New York's highest - ranking elected officials, and widening disclosure requirements for public - relations consultants, including for activities like soliciting editorials from news organizations.
According to a statement by the Director of the group, Professor Ishaq Akintola, said although the P resident was represented by a high - ranking Nigerian official, «the way and manner the Nigerian Army made the president's movement public ahead of the time in a zone that is yet to become completely secure» was commendable.
Public Advocate Letitia James, the city's highest - ranking black elected official, said this afternoon she is «incredibly disappointed» that Philip Banks, the NYPD's chief of department and highest - ranked uniformed officer, abruptly resigned today.
The governor was joined at the ceremony by high - ranking officials, including Public Advocate Letitia James, city Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and US Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Adriano Espaillat.
According to sources, Bratton avoided dramatizing the event with saber - rattling warnings, but rather used an «informative and professional» tone in reminding his executive core of captains and higher - ranking officials of their responsibilities, including adhering to the city s «public officers law» that prohibits taking anything worth $ 50 or more.
De Blasio is giving the public unprecedented access to his swearing - in ceremony at City Hall on Jan. 1 — an event typically filled with VIPs, elected officials and high - ranking government staffers.
Top officials at the Public Employee Federation were so anxious to get the word out, that they called a news conference less than an hour after Kahn handed down his decision... And long before most rank - and - file members even found out what had happened.
Elected and appointed officials, as well as rank and file staff members must be mindful of the public trust they hold when looking for a new job.
It is noteworthy that only weeks ago, a judge took this same prosecutor to task for public comments he made regarding the case of another high - ranking elected official who has been indicted.
NYPA has long been the gold - standard patronage mill for both parties, a quiet place far from public scrutiny where former elected officials and high - ranking staff go to pad their pensions.
When Mr. Dinkins called on him to head the commission, Mr. Mollen had months before stepped down as deputy mayor for public safety, after a long public career in which he had been a top city housing official in the 1960s and a high - ranking state judge in the 1970s and»80s.
An ethics case involving two Woodstock Town Board members has depleted the ranks of the Ethics Board and raised lingering questions about matters such as due process, the rights and responsibilities of public officials, and the soundness of the local law at the heart of the case.
BROOKLYN, NY — Several elected officials are quietly lobbying New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Kings County Democratic Party leadership to appoint NYC Public Advocate and Brooklyn native Letitia James, currently serving as the city's highest - ranking watchdog, as the interim Brooklyn District Attorney, Kings County Politics has learned.
The following table ranks each state based on total convictions and convictions per 10,000 residents of public officials in federal corruption cases between 1976 and 2010.
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, today called for a full Natural Resources Committee hearing to determine whether a high - ranking Department of the Interior (DOI) official received outside payments from a conservative group that seeks to influence federal policy.
Seventeen years and a host of education reforms separate public declarations by its highest - ranking officials that the nation's largest labor union should become a leader of education reform.
And the unions themselves didn't want to provoke a public split with a president their rank - and - file members adored, so they concentrated all their anger on Obama's Education secretaries, focusing their ire first on Arne Duncan, and then his successor John King, as though Obama himself were unaware of the reforms his Cabinet officials were carrying out on his behalf.
Adam Levinson, interim director for the office, told Policy Watch he would have to survey the state's ever - growing ranks of charter schools to compile such information, but multiple state officials agreed last week that a number of North Carolina's public charters include leaders from outside North Carolina.
For decades Bill Gates and his billionaire buddies along with high ranking government officials have been «reforming» our public schools.