Sentences with phrase «said pension forfeiture»

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«The Senate is committed to restoring faith in government, and pension forfeiture has been a priority for us because those who violate the public trust need to be held responsible,» said Senate Finance Committee Chair Cathy Young.

«We have an ongoing discussion in a broad rubric about ethics, but pension forfeiture has come up,» Flanagan said.

«There's several version of pension forfeiture bills out there,» said Assemblyman Dan Stec, a Republican from Queensbury.

«I'll reiterate, discussions are ongoing with pension forfeiture,» Flanagan said.

He said his office will seek to use the pensions as substitute assets to satisfy any forfeiture judgments they get as a result of their illegal schemes.

But voters will understand neither the horse - trading nor the heady implications of the bill, and several Assembly members said they were simply happy and hoping to act on a pension forfeiture amendment — whichever one it was.

Tedisco said the Majority's plan does not contain provisions for pension forfeiture for convicted felon elected officials who betray their oath of office, term limits for leaders, truth in spending to bring sunlight to state spending in the shadows to end quid pro-quos, or giving rank and file members the ability to bring legislation to the Floor for a vote and diminish the unbridled power that's been given to legislative leaders.

And if that wasn't clear enough, he later added: «I clearly said we are not going to leave the session without pension forfeiture being resolved.»

Neither pension forfeiture nor cracking down on Super PACs has anything to do with these matters, good - government advocates say, and while laudable, they shouldn't substitute for proposals that restrict the flow of campaign money or the omnipresent correlation between those who donate and benefit from favorable state actions.

«This body has passed forfeiture of pensions for public officials convicted of corruption,» Young said.

Assemblyman Goodell did offer rare praise for Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie over the passage of the pension forfeiture measure, saying he wished, though, it had a broader scope.

As for the pension forfeiture bill, Speaker Heastie says lawmakers actually have until the end of 2016 before they have to finalize the first step to change the state's constitution, so he says there's plenty of time to agree on a new bill.

Little, Stec say legislature needs to take a serious look at pension forfeiture, leadership term limits in wake of Silver conviction more

A spokesman for the Assembly Democrats has said that technically, the legislature has until the end of 2016 to come to agreement on the pension forfeiture measure.

But the League's Jennifer Wilson said the threat of pension forfeiture does not go far enough in fighting corruption at the Capitol.

«We've made an agreement that we will pass a constitutional amendment resolution on pension forfeiture and we still believe we're going to do that,» Heastie said this month.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Wednesday insisted negotiations were ongoing on pension forfeiture, while Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement said his house was ready to act.

Those briefed on the agreement say the amendment for pension forfeiture will be closer to the Assembly - backed version that more narrowly defined which officials would be impacted.

And since he's currently in the majority in the Assembly, maybe he could explain why the Democrats didn't pass the pension forfeiture law that they said they would.

Heastie, who succeeded Silver last year after his indictment, said he wanted to move forward with ethics reform measures, saying there is a «will» to have a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture approved this year.

All these plans should be a part of it but the pension forfeiture piece specifically, I think it's something that the public demands at this point,» he said.

«What the public is hungry for, post Shelly Silver, is ethics reform — specifically, the pension forfeiture bill that was agreed to last year and promptly reneged on by the Assembly,» said Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for the Democratic governor.

«I don't think... anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done, like at least the pension forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year — which still hasn't been passed — the LLC loophole, which is just an obvious anomaly that could be passed easily, in my opinion, which would at least reflect the sense of the people that this has been a wholly unprecedented year in terms of investigations of legislators,» the governor said after speaking at a minimum wage rally outside the Capitol.

ALBANY — If Republicans don't want to negotiate more about the language for pension forfeiture, Democrats who dominate the Assembly said, they'll follow Republicans and pass a measure that has drawn concerns from both sides of the aisle.

Supporters of Mr. Cuomo's proposals — which include increased disclosure of outside income, restricting personal use of campaign funds and pension forfeiture for public officials convicted of crimes — say they would probably cost little to put into effect.

Stec, who has authored a pension forfeiture bill, said he would continue fighting for ethics reforms in Albany.

«Overall, I find it disappointing,» Cuomo said, adding later: «I don't think anyone in good faith could leave Albany until we get things done like the pension - forfeiture bill which we agreed to last year.»

Also, «for those defendants previously convicted and who have failed to satisfy the financial obligations imposed at sentencing, we will consider federal civil forfeiture actions against their pensions to satisfy criminal judgments,» the prosecutor said.

But the League's Jennifer Wilson says that the threat of pension forfeiture does not go far enough in fighting corruption at the Capitol.

If passed, the measure would dramatically expand on a pension forfeiture provision of a 2011 ethics reform package that only applied to public officials not already in the state pension system at the time — that is to say, no sitting lawmakers.

«The strongest piece of ethics reform was pension forfeiture: That's what the people wanted,» he said.

The Senate has already passed a pension forfeiture bill but DeFrancisco said the Assembly wants to exclude teachers and other employees from the agreement.