Sentences with phrase «watchdog agencies»

In addition, the rules governing eligibility for taking deductions are complex, and government watchdog agencies have been critical of the IRS's oversight of this area in years past.

Watchdog agencies announce debt collection crackdown — Federal and state regulators announced a coordinated effort to fight a growing tide of debt collection abuses... (more)

At the time, State Senator Gayle Slossberg, the only Democrat to vote against Malloy's plan, was quoted as saying, «I just think that the proposal in front of us undermines the independence and the integrity of the [State Election Enforcement Commission and the other] watchdog agencies,»

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, disputed that the investigative groups were being shortchanged, saying the administration had «made key investments to ensure watchdog agencies have the tools and resources they need to fulfill their oversight responsibilities.»

Likewise, Governor Cuomo's derelict and incompetent staff lost my documents twice last year, under the direction of a now defunct employee named Lindsay Saffron, and you can understand how I will never be able to trust all unreliable and unstable politicians, much less government watchdog agencies that continue to ignore corruption that is within their purview to complete and investigate.

A spending bill that funds watchdog agencies overseeing Wall Street will offer lawmakers one of their last opportunities to undercut President Barack Obama's signature financial overhaul before the November elections.

Regulators have taken a closer look at cross-border currency transactions since US and European watchdog agencies fined seven banks $ 10 billion for manipulating international currency markets last year.

Watchdog agencies were asleep at the wheel.

Cruz, who also favors abolishing Dodd - Frank, has said he'd additionally jettison the newly formed watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

With Trump, though, the headless watchdog agency's approach isn't yet clear.

One of the federal government's low income phone subsidy programs is bedeviled by fraud, a watchdog agency investigation concluded.

The U.S. consumer watchdog agency, enmeshed in partisan politics since its creation after the 2008 financial crisis, is now at the center of a tug - of - war...

A government watchdog agency alleges that insurer Health Net of California has refused to cooperate in a security audit called for under a federal contract.

The watchdog agency has handled more than 192,000 mortgage complaints since its inception.

and Sherrod Brown (D - Ohio) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the federal watchdog agency to research and report on the economic subsidy that too - big - to - fail banks receive as a result of actual or perceived taxpayer support.

Even though Syrian officials agreed to destroy their massive stockpiles of chemical weapons more than a year ago, a disturbing new report from a watchdog agency found evidence that mustard gas was used as recently as August.

The church needs to establish a watchdog agency which would conduct continuous research and debate to ensure that the message and practice of religious programs remains congruous with established Christian thought.

The watchdog agency MinistryWatch.com called for an independent commission to run TBN.

WASHINGTON — American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

«Obviously, time will tell, but we're very optimistic about Forrest Claypool's ability and intent to reform the Park District,» says Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, the civic watchdog agency that awarded Chicago's parks a dismal D - plus grade this year.

Let's hear it for the Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog agency that has still managed to remain independent of the more corrupt aspects of Washington food politics.

Two years after members of the JCOPE complained of interference by Cuomo's administration, phone records show that Cuomo's top attorney repeatedly called the state's ethics watchdog agency.

Mark - Viverito's call for Ponte to quit came after an investigation last month by the city's anti-graft watchdog agency found that he had been out of town for a quarter of 2016 as violence and corruption plagued the Rikers Island jail complex.

The same investigators have accused Ponte's deputy in charge of internal probes of spying on the watchdog agency's investigators and continuing the practice when ordered to stop.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- A state watchdog agency has deemed Rikers Island and four upstate jails as the worst local jails in New York.

Cracking down on public urination, disorderly conduct and other low - level offenses doesn't lead to a decline in more serious crimes, a watchdog agency tasked with monitoring the NYPD said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo counts on $ 1.2 billion in «fiscal gimmicks» to keep spending growth below 2 percent in his proposed 2017 state budget, a government watchdog agency said.

The watchdog agency, often criticized as ineffectual, was both rebuked and handed more work to do.

We slammed the state's watchdog agency, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, for their attempt to expand their definition of lobbying to include the meetings public relations firms have with newspaper editorial boards.

The watchdog agency's predicament is just one example of what happens in the budgetary bloodletting of fashioning a $ 20 - billion annual budget plan when the state faces a huge shortfall in revenue.

In the wake of the scandal, JCOPE staffers will be paying «closer attention» to financial disclosures, though officials for the watchdog agency declined to say how it missed crucial information in Bharara's case against Percoco.

Just days before he is set to retire, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton unleashed a blistering attack on the watchdog agency whose report concluded that Broken Windows — the key tenet of Bratton's policing strategy, was ineffective and led to racial disparity in police action.

The CCRB is the watchdog agency that investigates officer misconduct.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board, the police watchdog agency investigating the misconduct claim against Pantaleo and others, is also seeking the minutes — not for public use but for private investigative reasons.

Just days before he is set to retire, police commissioner Bill Bratton unleashed a blistering attack Wednesday on the watchdog agency whose report concluded that Broken Windows, the key tenet of Bratton's policing strategy, was ineffective and led to racial disparity in police action.

Since the law was passed, only 24 lobbying clients and 11 lobbyists have submitted paperwork detailing the hiring of state officials, according to the website of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state's lobbying watchdog agency.

Before joining the department in 2010, Ms. Finkle spent 11 years at the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the watchdog agency that investigates police abuse, becoming the executive director in 2002.

The fines were set by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board, the watchdog agency that disciplines hundreds of city workers for ethics lapses every year.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

Recently, though, former FTC officials have said that Facebook's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica may have violated the company's legal agreement with the federal watchdog agency.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo counts on $ 1.2 billion in «fiscal gimmicks» to keep spending growth below 2 percent in his proposed 2017 state budget, a government watchdog agency said Monday.

Fast - forward three months, and we have a very real and disturbing situation involving New York state's top watchdog agency.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board received 4,487 complaints in 2017 — up 202 from the year before — an uptick in allegations following seven years of declining numbers, according to the police watchdog agency's 64 - page report.

«Our concern is that there should be a greater independence in the watchdog agency — putting watchdog in quotes — so that it is not merely a substitution of one government agency's judgment for another government agency's, and being subject to the same criticism of some of the issues being swept under the rug,» Mr. Silver said, echoing concerns raised by some prominent advocates for disabled people.

It would also require the General Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog agency, to certify that such vetting had occurred before any new questions were added.

Federal agencies need to patch some scientific holes in their ongoing efforts to protect struggling bee populations, according to the nonpartisan watchdog agency of Congress.

There seems to be no consensus on the answer, although a range of estimates were presented at a conference called last month * by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

Turner, a social scientist at City University of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

FBI's investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people in the United States was marred by weak scientific practices and analytical gaps, a report by Congress's watchdog agency has concluded.