Sentences with phrase «state ethics complaint»
He was on the losing side in supporting secrecy in the state ethics complaint process.
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A state ethics panel, acting on a complaint from Bogota mayor Steve Lonegan, ruled in May 2007 that Katz's contact with Corzine during negotiations did not violate the governor's code of conduct.
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.
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.
She filed a complaint with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and a state ethics agency more than a year ago.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- A Democratic mayor is filing an ethics complaint against Republican Sen. Thomas Libous (LIH» - buhs), the state Senate's deputy majority leader.
The online home - sharing site today will file a formal complaint with a state ethics panel charging that the ShareBetter campaign, a coalition of unions, lawmakers and other Airbnb opponents, has engaged in illegal and unreported lobbying.
«Someone who may know [how to file an ethics complaint] is a person who has had allegations made against them for threatening to throw a reporter off the rotunda after the State of the Union address, for FEC filings,» he said.
Donald Trump is crediting New York's never - ending corruption scandals for prodding the state's ethics agency to investigate his complaint that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hit up Trump's relatives and associates for campaign contributions while investigating his business school.
The state GOP last week filed a complaint with ethics regulators over Percoco's appearances in the governor's office in 2014 when he was in charge of Cuomo's re-election campaign and not working for the state.
On the heels of former New York State Senate leader Pedro Espada's conviction, the state's ethics commission is pursuing a complaint against one of Albany's most prominent lawmaState Senate leader Pedro Espada's conviction, the state's ethics commission is pursuing a complaint against one of Albany's most prominent lawmastate's ethics commission is pursuing a complaint against one of Albany's most prominent lawmakers.
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.
A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a state ethics panel over a report in the New York Times that the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.
The woman, whom The Buffalo News has agreed not to identify, said she is angry that Hoyt left his post as regional president of Empire State Development Corp. with accolades from high state officials after she lodged complaints more than a year ago with a state ethics agency and the office of Gov. Andrew M. CState Development Corp. with accolades from high state officials after she lodged complaints more than a year ago with a state ethics agency and the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cstate officials after she lodged complaints more than a year ago with a state ethics agency and the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cstate ethics agency and the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
The Maine Democratic Party filed an ethics complaint in early October against Paul LePage, claiming that the governor used state property as part of his re-election campaign.
A former North Carolina Supreme Court judge has filed complaints with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and a New York state ethics panel alleging that taxpayer - funded ads Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has run in North Carolina violated the Hatch Act by interfering with the gubernatorial and legislative races...
The New York Public Interest Research Group on Monday lodged a complaint with ethics regulators over what it believes is an increase in lobby by the state's political parties.
The state's chief ethics agency, JCOPE, has reportedly commenced an initial inquiry into complaints surrounding the office of Sen. Marc Panepinto, a Buffalo Democrat who earlier this week made a surprise announcement that he would not seek a second term in Albany.
The state's ethics watchdog, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday; while its proceedings are secret, good - government groups have filed formal complaints against Lopez and it is expected commissioners will weigh authorizing an investigation.
The state Committee on Open Government has said that while part, or all, of ethics board investigations into complaints can be blacked out or kept confidential, meeting records still must be made public.
«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.»
Hochul says the incident is under investigation by the state's ethics commission, and she intends to look into the complaints that the review is not moving fast enough.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is looking to give the state's lobbying and ethics ombudsman additional funding to investigate sexual harassment complaints amid sexual misconduct allegations against the leader of a group of breakaway Democrats.
She says her group, which has already filed a complaint with the IRS and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman about ALEC, is now asking the state's ethic commission, JCOPE, to look into it.
* The state's primary ethics agency reportedly launched an initial inquiry into complaints surrounding Panepinto's office.
Mayor de Blasio answered questions from the press on a wide range of topics, including HIV prevention, the role of the Health Department and the «Nanny State», the large - size soda ban, Metzizah B'peh, fines and penalties levied by the Health Department, the ethics complaint filed against Patrick Gaspard, the city's fiscal outlook, stop & frisk and more.
The environmental group Protect the Adirondacks filed an ethics complaint regarding what it contends was «illegal advocacy and lobbying» by the state DC in support of a 2013 constitutional amendment that cleared the way for a land - swap deal between New York and an Essex County mining operation.
On January 29, 2014, a reporter with conservative Watchdog.org filed an ethics complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission, alleging several discrepancies between Davis» personal tax returns and her personal financial statements as State Senator from 2010 to 2012.
Lopez was censured by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Friday and stripped of his chairmanship, after a state ethics panel unanimously found that complaints by two employees were credible.
Another ethics complaint has been filed against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, claiming free services he received from a law firm violated state law.
(CNN)- Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated state ethics laws by letting supporters set up a legal defense fund to help her battle ethics complaints, a preliminary report on the issue has found.
On the first question, a cursory review by Woodstock Times of the local ethics law — and of Article 3 of the state Administrative Procedure Act, which complements and informs the local law — found no provision directing the Ethics Board to omit the specific charge when it notifies individuals that they are the subject of a complaint.
Nancy Schauffler, who has filed an Article 78 lawsuit challenging the Cucina expansion that the ethics complaint charged Magarelli and McKenna with favoring, stated that it «just doesn't look good» for a Town Board to rewrite a law that two of its members were found to have violated.
A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a 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 ethics panel, the state's Commission on Public Integrity, investigated Mr. Sachs's conduct at the request of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit organization that filed a complaint with the commission in February alleging that Mr. Sachs had violated ethics laws by failing to register as a lobbyist.
(CNN)- The South Carolina Ethics Commission has charged Gov. Mark Sanford with 37 counts of violating state ethics laws, according to a complaint released by the commission on Monday.
He faces a separate ethics complaint alleging his 2012 re-election campaign used state resources.
The Indiana Inspector General continues to investigate an ethics complaint against former state superintendent Tony Bennett.
Contending that a Rutgers professor and public schools advocate has used her position, title and state university resources to wage a personally driven campaign against them, a group representing the state's charter schools has filed an ethics complaint against the Save Our Schools NJ co-founder.
We have written frequently here about the series of ethics complaints filed in some 47 states by by Connecticut lawyer Zenas Zelotes against Chicago - based Total Attorneys and its lawyer - founder Kevin Chern.
The Washington Supreme Court upheld the hearing's officer's decision to exclude this evidence, citing Admission and Practice Rule 19 (e)(5), which states that «no information relating to an ethics inquiry, including the fact that an inquiry has been made, its content, or the response thereto, may be asserted in response to any grievance or complaint under the applicable disciplinary rules, nor is such information admissible in any proceeding under the applicable disciplinary rules.»
The investigations came in response to a series of ethics complaints filed in some 47 states by a Connecticut lawyer who maintains that the Total Attorneys model violates ethics rules.
The latest in the salacious saga of Michigan Judge Wade McCree has been making the law blog rounds this week (via Jonathan Turley, Above the Law), with the release of McCree's answer to the state Judicial Tenure Commission's complaint against him over a series of alleged ethics violations related to his sexual relationship with a complaining witness in a child support case.
The California State Bar alone received over 16,000 ethics complaints in 2011, a number that represents about 7 % of California's active lawyers.
Cease immediately or I will file an ethics complaint with your state bar....
Peach Pundit reports that a complaint has been filed with the state ethics commission against Taylor Bennett, the Democrat in the House District 80 runoff, accusing the Brookhaven attorney of failing to file his personal financial information in a timely manner.
A local Board, prior to referring an ethics complaint or arbitration request for review to the State Association, should exhaust all efforts to impanel an impartial panel to conduct either the original hearing or the appeal or procedural review.
Concerns about your fee may be the least of your worries, because your friend could file an ethics complaint against you with your state commission for violating Article 9.
(1) A local Board, prior to referring an ethics complaint or arbitration request for review to the State Association, should exhaust all efforts to impanel an impartial panel to conduct either the original hearing or the appeal or procedural review.
NAR Model Citation Policy and Schedule of Fines These models will assist state and local associations in developing citation policies, including fines, for receiving and resolving ethics complaints.