Sentences with phrase «state ethics disclosure»

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Together, the pair is worth as much as $ 761 million — or $ 25 million more than Kushner's original ethics disclosure stated back in March, according to the Times.

Cuomo is pushing a package of ethics reform proposals including public financing of political campaigns and strengthened disclosure of outside income for elected officials — measure he says must be in the final state budget agreement.

JCOPE Commissioner Ravi Batra claims that the state ethics panel is not abiding by the law that created it, and he is considering legal action after JCOPE voted to set into place disclosure requirements that are effective starting July 1st of this year instead of June 1st.

During this morning's JCOPE meeting the state ethics board released a draft report on disclosure rules requiring lobbyists and lobbying groups to disclose individual donors who give more than $ 5000.

«The Joe Percoco corruption trial is now the Todd Howe show — and a case study in how Albany's lobbyists, their clients and administration officials frequently maneuver around the state's under - enforced ethics and disclosure laws.»

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

Columbia Journalism School's The New York World, in cooperation with some of our favorite advocates at NYPIRG and Common Cause / NY, has created a searchable spreadsheet of the New York State Legislature's ethics disclosure forms.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo's running mate for lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, earned between $ 150,000 and $ 250,000 a year in her job as a vice president at M&T Bank, according to financial disclosure records filed with the state's ethics commission.

Most agree that the governor's insertion of ethics reform — specifically tying per diem changes and disclosure requirements to the state comptroller's budget — is a stretch of even the limited boundaries defined in Silver v. Pataki.

But Cuomo has said he would hold up a deal on the state budget this year in order to achieve ethics legislation, with a heavy emphasis on disclosure of outside income.

A civic coalition seeking to improve how Albany governs is asking incumbents and candidates for state office this year to pledge publicly to back strict fiscal controls on state spending, stronger ethics and financial disclosure regulations, and a nonpartisan system for drawing legislative and Congressional districts.

Even the state's top lawyer, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, points out that there might be some conflict between the governor's proposed financial disclosure requirements and the lawyers» code of ethics.

The ethics pledge envisions a reinvigorated ethics commission with sweeping jurisdiction and subpoena power, comprehensive annual financial disclosure requirements and the creation of a panel to recommend limits on campaign contributions from individuals and organizations that solicit or obtain state business.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Democrats announced a two - way deal on ethics reform late Tuesday, that they say will require full disclosure of outside income for state lawmakers.

New York lawmakers have passed a $ 142 billion state spending plan that includes new spending on schools, changes in teacher evaluations and new ethics disclosure rules for lawmakers.

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

Cuomo is also calling for establishing an independent ethics commission, full disclosure of outside income and clients by legislators, a board of trustees rather than the sole trustee model for the state comptroller's office and the creation of «Open NY» — a one - stop - shopping clearinghouse of all public information much like his «Project Sunlight» at the AG's office.

New York City is flouting a state law that requires unpaid members of policymaking boards and commissions to file financial - disclosure statements — an ethics breach that allows officials on some powerful panels to make decisions without any sunlight on potential conflicts of interest.

Cuomo's contract with the company is worth at least $ 700,000, according to a financial disclosure form the governor filed with state ethics regulators earlier this year.

«The Senate supports enhanced disclosure to ensure transparency and accountability in government, and will modify the Governor's ethics proposals, as well as the education reform initiatives advanced as part of the Executive budget,» the Republican conference stated.

The Legislature in 2011 adopted an ethics overhaul measure that required greater disclosure of sources of outside income for state elected officials, as well as the creation of the latest lobbying regulator, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The measure, known as the Education, Labor and Family Assistance budget bill, included a suite of ethics reform legislation that address client disclosure for state lawmakers who are attorneys as well as per diem and campaign finance reform.

As Cuomo pursues new ethics legislation in the state budget that would create new private income and client disclosure laws as well as the submitting of receipts for travel reimbursement, some lawmakers have called for similar pushes on the governor himself.

Cuomo did win ethics legislation in recent years that included new income disclosure laws for state lawmakers and statewide elected officials as well as new crimes for bribery and public corruption.

The Siena college survey asked voters about Cuomo's plan to make the state budget late if the legislature doesn't agree to an ethics package that includes fuller disclosure of lawmakers» outside income.

What Cuomo says he did not know was reported by Percoco in financial disclosure forms with the state ethics commission in mid-2015.

Mr. Feerick, who is dean of the Fordham Law School, also lobbied for an ethics law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the disclosure provisions of state election law.

Currently, state officials must file annual ethics disclosure forms with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

One day before the state ethics commission is to hold hearings on new rules for lobbying disclosures, there are more revelations about a multi million dollar advocacy group associated with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

After the landmark ethics overhaul enacted last year, the State Board of Elections has developed rules for the disclosure of spending by outside groups, but those that don't explicitly advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate are exempt from this requirement.

A law approved in 2011 aimed at requiring more disclosure for state officials who earn outside income from lobbying entities to appears to be rarely enforced by state ethics regulators.

JCOPE unanimously passed «emergency» regulations that will govern the state's lobbying disclosure rules should Gov. Andrew Cuomo sign an ethics reform package, as expected.

David Grandeau, an Albany - area consultant who spent years as the state's top lobbying regulator, is advising the authority on «updating and amending» its code of ethics and financial - disclosure policies, according to Steve Coleman, a Port Authority spokesman.

Cuomo defended the measure this week at the State Fair in Syracuse, telling reporters «everything in ethics is about disclosure.»

(The state ethics commission is developing the disclosure rules; it is not clear when they will take effect.)

MirRam Group, has had 26 clients this year, 11 of which jumped aboard after Heastie replaced the criminally charged Sheldon Silver as speaker on Feb. 3, according to disclosure filings with the state ethics commission.

Keeping the ethics monitoring groups at current levels comes at a time when Mr. Cuomo, lawmakers and other state officials are all floating various ideas to strengthen existing ethics laws, including heightened disclosure requirements, increased penalties and an overhauled per - diem system.

Asked whether the group should voluntarily disclose where its money comes from, Mr. Cuomo responded by noting that an overhaul of the state ethics law for which he won passage last year will require the disclosure of donors in the future.

What more motivation does the State Legislature need to enact a comprehensive overhaul of ethics laws that would require full disclosure of the source and amount of outside income, and how it was earned?

Such a disclosure would be required under Gov. Cuomo's new proposed ethics bill and was the focus of a report in Monday's Post that found that Skelos — unlike Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — won't say whether he's representing private legal clients with business before the state.

Even if Silver's actions ultimately are found to be just business as usual in Albany, however, something must be done about the state's porous ethics laws and opaque disclosure requirements.

N.Y. (AP)-- Two political advocacy groups are considering a legal appeal after a New York state ethics board rejected their request to shield major donors from public disclosure.

The ethics agreement will also expand disclosure requirements by political consultants who do work for elected officials as well as for clients with business before the state or local governments, and increase the number of donors to groups that perform lobbying who will be required to disclose their identities.

Cuomo has hailed the budget — which also includes new disclosure requirements for lawmakers» outside income — as «transformative,» saying it addresses two of the state's most pressing needs: education and ethics reform.

Members of boards of trustees of charter schools operating under the this section shall file a disclosure annually with the state ethics commission, the department and the city or town clerk wherein such charter school is located.

Sheriff Todd Entrekin of Etowah County revealed the compensation on ethics disclosure forms filed with the state, AL.com reports.

This website and our consumer - facing websites are designed to comply with the ABA Model Rules and various state ethics rules by providing clear, visible disclosures and by not endorsing or recommending any particular attorney.

«He says the state's ethics rules are designed to provide disclosure and encourage lawmakers to participate in areas where they are knowledgeable, so that a farmer can participate in debates about agriculture and a doctor on health care issues, for example.»

Real estate brokers and agents: disputes relating to brokers, agents and their ethical, fiduciary and other common law disclosure and other obligations, as well as alleged breaches in civil actions and in ethics proceedings before state regulatory agencies

The Georgetown report cites state laws that require providers to adhere to professional codes of conduct and ethics with respect to disclosure and re-disclosure of protected health information.