Sentences with phrase «said ethics laws»

Some lawmakers say the commission lacks jurisdiction on matters that happened before it was created, while others say the ethics law wasn't protect lawmakers from past misdeeds.

The foundations of the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union have jointly filed a lawsuit saying an ethics law passed by the Legislature earlier this year violated the First and Fourth amendments.

Not exact matches

«The Philippines has found a way to pay tribute to our president,» said Kathleen Clark, a government ethics lawyer and law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

The documents CREW cites are the same documents that were examined by Treasury's Inspector General in his review of Treasury's travel, in which he identified no violation of law, regulation, or ethics requirements,» Sayegh said.

Dr. Richard Leblanc, an associate professor of governance law and ethics at York University, said there are many potential hints of a CEO burnout, including erratic behaviour, inconsistency at work, divorce or family issues, and even substance abuse.

Governance expert Richard Leblanc, who teaches law, governance, and ethics at York University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawyers do not.

«It shouldn't be adversarial,» says Richard Leblanc, associate professor of governance, law and ethics at York University.

«This is the way the world is going,» said Richard Leblanc, associate professor of governance, law and ethics at York University.

«It's the funders that create the problem,» says Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics.

Top White House strategist Kellyanne Conway on Thursday wouldn't say whether President Trump will discipline her after a watchdog group said she violated federal ethics law by endorsing a Republican candidate in an Alabama Senate race.

«It is not uncommon after a crisis or scandal to recruit from the outside like CPA Australia has done,» says Richard Leblanc, associate professor of law, governance and ethics at York University.

The boardroom trends that are «hot» right now, says Richard Leblanc, associate professor in law, governance and ethics at York University, are those that are examining «over-boarded [and] over-tenured directors,» as well as tackling board diversity and experience.

That's the middle ground whether you are talking government, politics, law, ethics as a citizen, or even, dare I say it, religion.

The «moral majority» and ethics in our society deems it «not o.k.» and therefore turns votes into laws that make said practices illegal.

I was not disappointed when I looked to see if Simple had said anything about the law in the perspective of ethics:

There isn't roomhere to do more than illustrate the case with a few examples, but an attempt will be made to show how rich Paul's view of ethics is, how his teaching on law is original and relevant, how his emphasis on love is important, and how he forces us to consider not only the human act that, as St Thomas says, is what moral theology is all about, but also the adjectival human agent transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a friend, indeed a child of God.

The medical board doesn't care even though the law says they can fine physicians for ethics violations.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Tuesday said he would be willing to discuss «additional changes» to the state's ethics and transparency laws after the guilty verdict in the corruption case of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

On ethics, Cuomo wasn't able to get at some of the issues that forced, say, Sheldon Silver from power, namely the ability for lawmakers to earn as much money as they'd like at law firms or other entities with potential business before the state.

«To clean up the government and restore trust we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure,» Cuomo says.

«He is going around the county campaigning to be the county executive by attacking everyone for being engaged in a dirty way of doing business in politics, and in his own office, blatantly, he's violating the ethics law,» Jacobs said.

But Cuomo says «there's more to do» on overhauling ethics laws and he touts his own proposals on tightening anti-bribery laws and giving more power to district attorneys around the state to tackle corruption.

That helps reveal, Orzechowski said, how many reforms are tangled in a morass of Albany power players» political self - interest, leading to unlikely bureaucratic arrangements, such as an ethics agency that is not subject to transparency laws.

An ethics bill New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says will increase accountability and transparency was signed into law Wednesday.

She then said «he» would determine where else it might be released, but she didn't specify if she was referring to the U.S. attorney or Schwartz before hastily ending the news conference in which Cuomo announced his proposals for ethics laws.

TheTimes - Union said that the trial was a troubling demonstration that ethics and campaign finance laws need to be reformed in Albany.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's opponents in the November election race are stepping up accusations over the ethics commission scandal and citing sections of state law that they say might have been broken by the governor's aides.

Reform groups are giving Gov. Andrew Cuomo an A for effort on his ethics proposals, but they say some of them need to go further, and Cuomo needs to follow through and actually get the plans enacted into law.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve commenting on Monday's open letter sent by 60 British Humanist Association supporters is quoted in today's Telegraph as saying «As I go around and look at the way we make laws, and indeed many of the underlying ethics of society are Christian - based and the result of 1,500 years of Christian input into our national life.

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.

Ironically, Albany's ethics watchdog, JCOPE, which critics say is too close to the governor — if not controlled outright by him — is reportedly investigating allegations that Libous used his political clout to secure a job as a politically - connected Hudson Valley law firm for his son.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a New York state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

The former enforcers also say proposed ethics laws wouldn't have stopped most of this ooze coming from Albany.

Poloncarz said he hopes the ethics law he worked on with Lorigo will finally receive some attention.

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.

«What has been reported could mean that there's a gaping hole in New York's ethics laws,» said Horner.

Spokesman John Milgrim says while the ethics commission can not comment on whether or not an investigation is being conducted «To the extent a problem is identified in any individual's financial disclosure statement, the Commission will seek full compliance with the law.»

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

Cuomo has said, repeatedly and vociferously, that he discontinued the commission purely because it had satisfied its mission, which was to pressure the legislature into passing tougher ethics laws.

«We must prove once again that state government can be trusted, and that means passing tough new ethics laws and creating a system that deters, detects and punishes individuals who seek to abuse and corrupt,» he said last week in a

A congressional ethics report has recommended further investigations into allegations Rep. Tim Bishop violated House rules and federal law last year, saying there was a «substantial reason» to believe Mr. Bishop broke federal campaign finance rules.

Mayor Steve Noble said this week he will sign a new ethics law that passed a divided Common Council earlier

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Long Island said Tuesday that the goal of the negotiations with Cuomo is «full transparency and strong ethics laws» modeled on effective laws in other states.

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.

Kolb had said earlier this week — after the Democrat - led Assembly rejected his proposed ethics - law changes — that he would seek to invite the prosecutor to Albany.

ALBANY, N.Y. — One day after signing his fourth ethics bill into law since taking office as governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday there's still more work that's needed to be done.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the only one left standing of the «three men in a room» who made every major decision on New York's laws and budgets in January, praised the verdict and like Bharara and others in Albany said it should spur ethics reforms.

Bamberger says he isn't doing any lobbying for the group (he's prohibited by state ethics laws from doing so) but said the new advocacy group has retained its own lobbying firm, Bogdan, Lasky & Frazier LLC.

Lerner, with Common Cause, says that's because of weaknesses in the state's ethics laws concerning campaign funds and outside income disclosure.

«The problem is more about appearance than law or ethics, strictly,» said Mr. Green, who lost to Mr. Cuomo in the Democratic primary for attorney general in 2006.