Sentences with phrase «reaching public corruption»
Of course, their fundraising tactics during that election cycle led to complaints that opened the door to a wide - reaching public corruption investigation.
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Far - reaching and critical amendments proposed by Bill S - 14, An Act to amend the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, received royal assent on June 19, 2013.
Word spread Friday evening of a potential deal that could have also included ethics - related measures such as more oversight of procurement procedures — a discussion sparked by the latest public corruption scandal that reached into the governor's inner circle — and a public financing system for judicial campaigns.
«We applaud Attorney General Schneiderman's far - reaching proposals for campaign finance reforms, including public matching funds, that are what's needed to finally reduce pay to play politics and corruption in Albany.
With a recent poll showing that nearly 90 % of New Yorkers believe that unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government a month before former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are sentenced for public corruption, the governor and legislative leaders have an obligation to New Yorkers to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform.
Mr. Bharara said numerous New Yorkers had reached out to him to express appreciation for his work against corruption, and thus argued he had already succeeded in improving public awareness of the issue.
Stripping public officials convicted of corruption is not in the proposal, but Democrats are «committed to reaching an agreement» for a constitutional amendment, which has stalled in the Legislature.
Perhaps, the most far - reaching measure Nana Addo plans to institute in his fight against corruption is his vow to create a special, independent Public Prosecutor's Office to deal with issues of corruption when they come up.
That ruling, reached six months after the Skeloses were convicted, significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» as it applies to federal bribery statutes and found that, while the McDonnell case was «distasteful,» it did not rise to the level of public corruption.
Thursday night, word began circulating of a «framework» agreement reached between the so - called «three men in a room» — Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — that would satisfy at least the minimum requirements for both: The Democratic - dominated Assembly would agree to the first passage of legislation paving the way for a constitutional amendment that would allow for the stripping of public pensions from elected officials and other top officials convicted of public corruption, and the Republican - led Senate would approve a one - year extension of mayoral control of New York City's schools.
When asked what he might do if a proposal for a 47 percent pay boost — which has been floated during the commission's deliberations — reached his desk, raising the yearly compensation of New York lawmakers from $ 79,500 to $ 116,900 and making them the highest paid legislators in the nation, despite the public corruption scandals that have consumed Albany, Cuomo replied:
With former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos scheduled to be sentenced next month for public corruption crimes, and a recent poll showing that nearly 90 percent of New Yorkers believe unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government, Albany's political leaders have an obligation to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform, the good government groups said.
A BOE enforcement mechanism wasn't adopted until 2014 in an ethics package Cuomo reached with the legislature after he agreed to kill The Moreland Commission on Public Corruption.