Sentences with phrase «state ethics report»

Lopez in May 2013 resigned under fire from the Assembly after 28 years after a state ethics report accused him of harassing up to eight former staffers.

Quinn made her remarks one day after a state ethics report looking into accusations of sexual harassment at the hands of Lopez found the embattled assemblyman did not violate any laws.

A state ethics report accused former Assemblyman Vito Lopez of harassing at least eight women during his time in the chamber.

The state ethics report was released shortly after a special prosecutor conducting a parallel criminal investigation in Brooklyn said Mr. Lopez, 71, would not face charges there, because no «chargeable crime» had occurred within that jurisdiction.

After multiple women accused Assemblyman Vito Lopez of sexual harassment, such as groping them and making sexual remarks at work, a 2013 state ethics report found Silver failed to investigate and tried to cover up the allegations.

«Even after a state ethics report criticized him for covering up allegations of sexual harassment against a powerful assemblyman, even after a prosecutor said his failure to act might have put other women at risk, even after a number of editorial boards called for his ouster, Mr. Silver is still standing strong.»

Not exact matches

The study's subjects were selected entirely by the Mattachine Society, a group that H00ker herself admitted in the report had «as its stated purpose the development of a h0m0 ethic.

Abrecht (1984) is one of many ecumenical leaders who judge that no ecumenically organized reflection on theology and social ethics has matched the quality and thoroughness of the 1937 meeting of the WCC on «Church Community and State in Relation to the Economic Order» and its report of that title.

The report released on Monday by lobbying and ethics regulators found the top lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.

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.

Those lobbying state and local government spent a record $ 226 million in 2014 trying to influence public officials, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the state's ethics and lobbying regulations.

A November report from the reform group Reinvent Albany listed 11 measures Cuomo could take by executive order to make the state government more accountable, including putting government information and public meeting presentations online, imposing stronger ethics rules for executive branch employees and automating voter registration.

In the State of the State policy book released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

Silver announced last night that he would introduce a resolution to begin the process of expelling the sleazy Brooklyn lawmaker in the wake of a scathing report by a state ethics committee that found Lopez sexually harassed women in his office and violated the state's Public Officers Law.

Acting Supreme Court Judge Daniel J. McCullough, 65, stepped down last month, after a state ethics probe determined that he «persistently failed to report to work» since April 2014 instead of going on proper medical leave.

State legislators would be required to report outside income of more than $ 1,000 and disclose the name of law clients who pay them more than $ 5,000 under an ethics - reform package unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

A state senator from Buffalo who announced he would not seek re-election is the subject of an inquiry by state ethics officials amid lurid allegations including sexual harassment, according to a report.

Vito Lopez served in the Assembly from 1985 to 2013, when he resigned ahead of a vote of the chamber to expel him after the state ethics commission had released a bombshell report that showed he had routinely sexually harassed young staffers in his office.

«Our only knowledge of the reported investigation by the District Attorney, the State ethics enforcement body, or U.S. Attorney's Office of the mayor is what has been reported in the news,» Azzopardi said.

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos, whose GOP majority rules the Senate, is the second highest earner of private income in the Senate, after former Speaker Silver, as reported in required annual filings with the state ethics commission.

The paper reports that the letter may be precedent - setting, in that it could result in the first investigation of a sitting legislator concerning activities that may or may not have happened before the creation of the state's ethics commission.

The state ethics commission report on the Assemblyman Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal might finally be made public later this month.

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.

Recent reports have indicated Boak failed to disclose if she received income from IOFA on her state ethics form.

Records show that nearly 300 state executive agency employees were arrested, hit with ethics charges, or investigated by the state inspector general's office since 2005, including 213 since Cuomo took office, the Daily News recently reported.

Governor Cuomo repeated that ethics reform remains the top issue in relation to a new state budget, and that reports that there is a deal close at hand with the state senate republican leadership is premature.

Mr. Lopez, who as the Democratic leader in Brooklyn and chairman of the Assembly's housing committee projected great influence across New York City and the state, resigned in May 2013 after a state ethics commission released a report about his alleged behavior including groping of female staff members and other unwanted sexual advances.

When ethics expert Jane Feldman's departure from the New York State Assembly, and her appraisal of the experience as «as waste of money,» was first reported by the Times Union last week, many saw it as another blow to reform efforts in Albany.

But the report from the IG's office notes that PSC workers seemed unaware of a 2008 change to the state ethics law that tightened the rules for accepting gifts.

The head of Gov. David Paterson's security detail, Maj. Charles Day, has not only been transferred in the wake of the Kaye report, but also faces potential charges for violating state ethics laws.

Cuomo's ethics measures — aimed at the Legislature, but would also apply to all state employees in the executive branch — would require the reporting of private business clients.

Aides to Cuomo discouraged a state ethics commission from issuing subpoenas connected to Buying Time, according to recent reports that the governor steered the commission away from entities that touched on his administration.

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

In early January, during his State of the State address, Cuomo cited the commission's interim report as evidence for the need to pass new ethics proposals.

But that did not happen before Cuomo was able to use the commission's report to get state lawmakers to agree to a package of ethics reforms, which created new crimes for violating the public trust and corrupting government.

State ethics regulators on Wednesday released a report that offered a scathing assessment not just of Mr. Lopez but also of the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, and his staff.

Members of the Public Integrity Commission, the state's ethics watchdog, are rebuffing Governor Paterson's calls for them to step down in response to a report from inspector general Joseph Fisch.

The allegations against the Westchester County DA chosen by Governor Cuomo to head a newly formulated state ethics commission were first reported in the New York Post.

As reported in Politico New York, there is a second way, other than the state ethics board, for a curious chief executive to find out if his top aides represented outside clients that might pose a potential conflict of interest.

A new record has been reached in spending on lobbying in New York, according to a report released by the state's ethics commission.

A government reform group is calling for a state ethics panel report to be made public, one day after the panel investigating charges against Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D - Brooklyn) sent a report to the legislative ethics committee.

Groups hiring lobbyists must file semi-annual reports with a state ethics agency.

Ethics regulations do require lobbyists and clients to disclose business transactions with state officials, but the 2011 ethics law appears to exclude reporting any dealings with a public official's residence.

However, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported a state ethics panel separately found Lopez violated the public trust and could face penalties.

Published reports in the New York Post and New York Daily News say US Attorney Preet Bharara has subpoenaed records from a state ethics panel created by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature.

Tuesday's Inspector General report referred the matter to a state ethics panel and to the Manhattan district attorney.

But while Donovan found no criminal culpability, a report released by a state ethics panel found Lopez violated the public trust.

The law also has provisions pertaining to business relationships between lobbyists and lawmakers, changes rules about who can launch an ethics investigation and how, and requires the state Board of Elections to clarify requirements for independent campaign spending, the Associated Press reports, via the Wall Street Journal.

(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.

The Legislative Ethics Commission, under pressure from the state ethics board, has released the report.