Sentences with phrase «to investigate corruption»

Numerous news reports have accused the governor's aides of interfering in the activities of the state commission investigating corruption in government.

And he said district attorneys and federal prosecutors were already fulfilling the task of investigating corruption.

There is no method of research to properly investigate a corruption case.

They were to investigate corruption in government and recommend concrete remedies.

The commission is charged with investigating corruption in state governmental agencies, and has already gone after the state Board of Elections and the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or J - COPE, at recent public hearings.

But the traditional style of budget making in New York, known as «three men in a room,» is coming under criticism, by among others, the U.S. Attorney currently investigating corruption at the Capitol.

ALBANY — When announcing the formal creation of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics in late 2011, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the new entity would use its «robust enforcement powers» to «aggressively investigate corruption and help maintain integrity in state government.»

I am aware of the recent move of Rosenstein who refers to a similar case when in 1941, when Attorney General Robert Jackson investigated a corruption scandal in the US Navy.

But the traditional style of budget making in New York, known as «Three Men in a Room,» is coming under criticism, by among others, the U.S. Attorney currently investigating corruption at the Capitol.

The gifts total about $ 5 million in the past six months and he spent $ 1.7 million of it, including $ 300,000 on legal fees while Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara probed his closing of the Moreland Commission investigating corruption in Albany.

Mr. Cuomo spent $ 1.5 million in the last six months, including about $ 500,000 on television commercials last summer, when he paid for advertising promoting a commission he had appointed to investigate corruption among state elected officials.

While many have said that the office would be a duplication of roles, because there are agencies such as the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice and the Economic and Organised Crime Office that are responsible for investigating corruption, others have praised its implementation and called on the president to make it truly independent of political interference.

Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman set up the special panel to investigate corruption last year after a rash of bribery arrests and ethical breaches.

In the past two years Cuomo has been back in the national spotlight, as his office has investigated corruption on Wall Street.

«Award - winning reporter Andrew Jennings has led the way investigating corruption in world football» Daily Mail

Nixon went on to critique the governor's record on ethics, saying he closed down a Moreland Act Commission that was actively investigating corruption in state government, and earlier this month saw his former closest aide convicted of bribery.

Today, a jury unanimously found that Tom Libous, the second highest ranking New York Senator, told lie after lie to hide the truth from federal agents investigating corruption in Albany.

According to A Plus, ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo - Danquah who was part of the team which investigated corruption allegations he leveled against two deputy chiefs of staff is fabricating issues about the case.

Bharara warned he's not yet done investigating corruption in Albany, saying: «We're not closing up shop anytime soon.»

«The worst moment of all came when Mr. Cuomo blocked the progress of the independent commission he set up to investigate corruption after the panel began to look into issues that may have reflected badly on him and his political supporters,» the editorial declared.

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has sought jurisdiction to investigate corruption throughout state government without requiring a referral from the governor of a suspected case of misconduct, said his spokesman Eric Soufer.

The co-chair of the commission, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, said the governor did not prevent him from investigating corruption.

OECD members are bound to investigate corruption regardless of its economic cost.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is reportedly investigating corruption in the Police Department and Mayor Bill de Blasio's nonprofit fundraising.

ISODEC believes state security agencies can not be expected to do a good job in investigating corruption issues when appointments to top jobs in the agencies are politicized.

Friday's headlines speculated about headaches for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who disbanded the Moreland Commission investigating corruption before it could complete a look at Silver's finances.

Last November 2016, following recommendation of the Presidential panel investigating corruption allegations against military personnel, Vice Admiral Ibrahim was invited and quizzed by the EFCC.

Fang Mengao goes back home to investigate the corruption account record, he asks Xie Peidong to cooperate with his work.

Xingu Fawcett explores what may have happened when the U.S. Department of Justice investigated a corruption -LSB-...]

I mean, this is the governor who disbanded the Moreland Commission, charged with investigating corruption in state government, when it started to paying attention to some of Cuomo's supporters.

Agata also defended the performance of the agency that Cuomo promised would «aggressively investigate corruption.»

On Tuesday, he began using some of that money to broadcast a 30 - second commercial drawing attention to a commission he established to investigate corruption among public officials.

The traditional style of budget making in New York, known as «three men in a room,» is coming under criticism, by among others, the US Attorney currently investigating corruption at the Capitol.

Fisch, a former state Supreme Court judge from the Bronx who was appointed inspector general in 2008 by Gov. David Paterson, is responsible for investigating corruption and mismanagement in state offices run by gubernatorial appointees.

Mr. Schneiderman took a little swing at the governor, noting that as attorney general, he does not have original jurisdiction to investigate corruption cases, but that they must be referred to him.

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo (who inexplicably disbanded the Moreland Commission he created to investigate corruption last year) has consistently talked a good game about reform.

Prof Mike Ocquaye on Tuesday, January 31, 2017, constituted the five - member committee to investigate the corruption allegation made by some members of the minority in parliament.

Bharara began looking into the Cuomo administration after the governor disbanded an ethics commission investigating corruption in Albany.

The Legislative Ethics Commission, which has the job of investigating corruption, is relatively useless, he said.

The Moreland Commission, charged with investigating corruption in state government, was asking that question before Gov. Andrew Cuomo disbanded the panel in March.

Browder said that to protect the vast amounts of money, some of which he said was in American banks, Putin launched a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russian officials whom the U.S. held responsible for the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail after being retained by Browder to investigate corruption.

The issue first came to light in a leaked memorandum from the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, Risa Sugarman, a position formed in 2014 following an ethics agreement in the budget and the shuttering of the Moreland Commission, a panel formed to investigate corruption in the Legislature.

The Daily Freeman is skeptical of Cuomo's motives in forming a Moreland Act Commission to investigate corruption, saying: «we're not yet ready to throw him a testimonial dinner for this initiative.»

For example, under the Moreland Act the governor could appoint a commission to investigate corruption.»

If Legislators fail to pass the anti-corruption measures, Governor Cuomo has threatened to appoint a special panel, a Moreland Commission, to investigate corruption in the body.

«Here's a body that's put into place to investigate corruption or serve as the underlying ethics agency in New York state and it's not fully in step with other measures like FOIL.

A new poll finds that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is still feeling the fallout from the demise of his Moreland Commission, a panel that was investigating corruption in the legislature.

In response to a prominent set of arrests of high - ranking Democrats and Republicans, the governor has proposed a series of proposals to strengthen the power of district attorneys to investigate corruption.

After lawmakers failed to pass the ethics reforms he proposed last year — including closing the LLC loophole — Cuomo formed a Moreland Commission to investigate corruption and recommend new campaign finance laws.