Sentences with phrase «state ethics violations»

They accused the ex-top-cop during the trial of «disavowing» his 2006 guilty plea to state ethics violations of accepting $ 255,000 in free renovations for his Bronx apartment in exchange for greasing the wheels for his mobbed - up pals.

Not exact matches

For Christians this was evident several years ago when the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States condemned even the possession of nuclear weapons as a violation of the just war ethic.

«If Lieutenant Gov. Duffy indeed failed to disclose the nature of his relationship with the Rochester Business Alliance to Gov. Cuomo, that would represent a major violation of state ethics laws.

«The only way to determine whether or not the State's second ranking public official committed an ethics violation is for the Moreland Commission to conduct a thorough investigation,» Cox said.

We believe this is a big mistake and further undermine the credibility of an agency that has struggled to independently and effectively investigate and enforce violations of state ethics laws by the governor, legislature, state employees, and -LSB-...]

«It raises the question of massive violations of state anti-corruption laws and ethics laws.»

The state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which polices violations of state ethics law, is effectively controlled by Cuomo's office.

Wu says while a grand jury will have to determine whether any actual crimes were committed, he says alleged interference by Cuomo's staff in an ethics commission sending out subpoenas is potentially in violation of several state statutes, including conspiracy to perform official misconduct and the hindering of prosecution.

Meanwhile, the chair of the State's Republican Party, Ed Cox, says Governor Cuomo's anti corruption Moreland Act Commission should investigate Duffy for a «possible violation of state ethic laws&raState's Republican Party, Ed Cox, says Governor Cuomo's anti corruption Moreland Act Commission should investigate Duffy for a «possible violation of state ethic laws&rastate ethic laws».

Cuomo is planning to begin a Moreland Act Commission to investigate campaign finance violations at the state Board of Elections if lawmakers do not approve an ethics package.

Cuomo created the Moreland Commission in 2013 as part of an effort to investigate corruption and ethics violations among state lawmakers and political organizations.

But probably the most high profile primary race in the state is in Harlem, where longtime Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democrat who has survived charges of ethics violations, faces four challengers.

Asked last month why Glenwood continued to pay once it learned fees were being directed to Silver while they had business before the state in violation of ethics laws, the source said: «It was a business decision to continue to pay.»

Since his last election, he has been bludgeoned by a Congressional censure over ethics violations, health woes, a newly configured district that is less favorable to him and an ambitious and credible challenger in state Sen. Adriano Espaillat (D).

In 2010, Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who was then the state's attorney general, named her independent counsel to investigate several alleged ethics violations by Mr. Paterson.

The changes also included an amendment explicitly stating that the District Attorney is responsible for prosecuting claims of ethics violations.

The «State government's ethics laws are policed by several separate entities, each without the independence necessary to ensure that violations are fully and fairly investigated and prosecuted. . .

Established in 2011, Jcope oversees the executive and legislative branches and investigates violations of state ethics and lobbying laws.

The commission investigates potential violations of state ethics laws by state employees and elected officials.

«With ongoing federal investigations into potential ethics violations by several state lawmakers, this report highlights that there are many legal channels through which special interests exert their influence in Sacramento,» Kathay Feng, executive director of CA Common Cause, said in a press release.

This afternoon State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he was passing off the responsibility of investigating David Paterson's reported attempt to influence court proceedings against one of his own aides and his reported violation of state ethics laws regarding a few Yankees ticState Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he was passing off the responsibility of investigating David Paterson's reported attempt to influence court proceedings against one of his own aides and his reported violation of state ethics laws regarding a few Yankees ticstate ethics laws regarding a few Yankees tickets.

State Superintendent of Schools Karen B. Salmon made news Wednesday after she declined to approve Verletta White as Baltimore County's permanent school superintendent, citing White's recent ethic violations.

Former state superintendent Tony Bennett is expected to pay a fine after being found guilty in an ethics violation from 2012.

You can always report broker ethics violations to your state's mortgage licensing governing body, but it would be after the fact.

You might be in violation of your state's ethics rules.

However, in one state, Connecticut, the chief disciplinary counsel found cause to file charges against five attorneys, alleging that they were obtaining referrals through and sharing fees with Total Attorneys in violation of legal 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 Indiana State Ethics Commission on Thursday is to consider a settlement between the state and a former Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles official who faces ethics violatState Ethics Commission on Thursday is to consider a settlement between the state and a former Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles official who faces ethics violatstate and a former Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles official who faces ethics violations.

Among other things, that provision is a legal ethics violation, in Virginia and many other states.

Deliberate relationships with expert witnesses such as the one sought in the below should be recognized as ethical violations and banned by state bar ethics rules.