Sentences with phrase «trust by a public official»

Ms Akers said the police investigation was establishing evidence of payments linked to specific news articles which reflected both breach of trust by public officials and breach of privacy.

Keywords: Conspiracy to Smuggle (here, cheese); Breach of Trust By Public Official (here, police officers)

Not exact matches

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

«Unfortunately, the decision was forced through by public officials who were blindly committed to this project and abandoned the public trust,» the Oneida Indian Nation said in a statement.

In June 2009, Sir Michael Scholar, head of the UK Statistics Authority, wrote to Harman to warn her that different headline figures used by the ONS and Government Equalities Office with regards to pay differentiation between men and women might undermine public trust in official statistics.

«When we have public officials who are entrusted by the public with their trust, it's absolutely outrageous that when they commit crimes and get convicted of them, that the same members of the public have to pay for them,» he said.

«This is one of the ways that Albany is corrupt, by continuing to pay pensions to officials who violate the public trust.»

«Contrary to the defendant's argument that his crime was victimless,» the U.S. attorney's office added, «the people of the State of New York are victims whenever, as here, an elected official abuses the trust the public placed in him by accepting secret payoffs from lobbyists and by covering up his conduct.»

To restore the public trust in public service, he's leading the effort to bring ethics reform to Albany by helping to pass a constitutional amendment stripping officials convicted of a felony of their taxpayer - funded retirement and instituting term limits on legislative leadership position, ensuring no one can accumulate entrenched power and use it to his or her advantage.

The Board's mission is to assure the trust, respect, and confidence of the people of Erie County by discouraging Erie County officials and employees from acting upon personal or financial interests in the performance of their public responsibilities.

JCOPE — set up by Gov. Cuomo in 2011 to «restore public trust» by making sure officials follow state ethics rules — has broad jurisdiction over New York legislators, elected officials, candidates and employees.

State GOP Chairman Chris Healy had requested the investigation by Kane's agency, and on Monday, another top Republican, Senate Minority Leader John P. McKinney of Fairfield, said: «The crimes Sen. Gaffey committed and will plead guilty to, as well as his prior violations of state elections law, undermine the public trust placed in elected officials.

This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).

She says the first goal is to find ways to restore public trust in JCOPE in an atmosphere of public corruption by elected officials.

Further, given that the report has called for further investigations of the Highway Department such as a review of time cards for the past two years, it is clear that such investigations can not be conducted by Town of Clarkstown personnel now that the public trust in the actions of Town employees and officials has been called into question.

Unlike bitcoins, which are created by the public, the Mazacoin Tribal Trust privately mined most mazacoins before the official launch of the currency, essentially giving the role of central bank to the tTrust privately mined most mazacoins before the official launch of the currency, essentially giving the role of central bank to the trusttrust.

These attempts to mislead the public may well have huge adverse effects on the climate issue, the future of blue / red politics, public trust in the press and public officials, serious damage to the economy and the environment, and even whether science will continue to be judged by using the scientific method.

The National Post today did the nation a favour by providing, under the title «Lawyers must earn the public's trust» an astutely edited version of the Governor General's speech (along with the link to the official web page where the full text can be found):

With the Twitter handle of what still is — rightly or wrongly — the representative of the entire cryptosphere (at least through the eyes of the general public) the information shared by the (seemingly) «official» Bitcoin account was blindly trusted by the majority of the public.