Sentences with phrase «with ethics disclosure»

Not exact matches

«Repeated failures by your White House colleague, Jared Kushner, and former employer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to properly disclose their meetings and contacts with Russian officials have only increased the need for vigorous oversight into ethics and security disclosures by other senior officials in this Administration,» they said.

The ethics disclosure was made public along with an updated filing by Kushner.

As the Governor has said, he will not enact a budget that doesn't include an ethics package with real disclosure of legislator's outside income, and he meant it.»

Officials were uncertain about whether a new Suffolk law requiring the county ethics board to release officials» financial disclosure publicly would apply to John Scott Prudenti, a district attorney bureau chief who rented his partyboat to criminal defense attorneys with cases before the DA's office.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

But with the new ethics bill (apparently about to be signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo) requiring new disclosure of outside income, that's looking like a less attractive option for some senators and assembly members.

Columbia Journalism School's The New York World, in cooperation with some of our favorite advocates at NYPIRG and Common Cause / NY, has created a searchable spreadsheet of the New York State Legislature's ethics disclosure forms.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo's running mate for lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, earned between $ 150,000 and $ 250,000 a year in her job as a vice president at M&T Bank, according to financial disclosure records filed with the state's ethics commission.

But Cuomo has said he would hold up a deal on the state budget this year in order to achieve ethics legislation, with a heavy emphasis on disclosure of outside income.

«During the campaign, I made a commitment that we would either pass real ethics reform with real disclosure and real enforcement or I would form a Moreland Commission on public integrity,» the governor cotinued.

The ethics pledge envisions a reinvigorated ethics commission with sweeping jurisdiction and subpoena power, comprehensive annual financial disclosure requirements and the creation of a panel to recommend limits on campaign contributions from individuals and organizations that solicit or obtain state business.

Among Citizens Union's proposals are: independent budgeting for JCOPE; investing in database resources and information technology; an open process of personnel selection; making internal workings public and transparent; improving the process of financial disclosure reporting by coordinating with different agencies; reducing response time to complaints; and improved guidance of grassroots lobbying to ensure ethics compliance.

Spokesman John Milgrim says while the ethics commission can not comment on whether or not an investigation is being conducted «To the extent a problem is identified in any individual's financial disclosure statement, the Commission will seek full compliance with the law.»

Prosecutors said he received millions of dollars from businessmen who wanted help from the Legislature, and firms that had him pressure labor unions to invest money with them — and then he concealed the payments in his ethics disclosure forms.

The disclosure forms, which must be notarized, are kept on file by the city comptroller with copies delivered in sealed envelopes to members of the city's ethics board and the mayor.

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Lerner, with Common Cause, says that's because of weaknesses in the state's ethics laws concerning campaign funds and outside income disclosure.

Richard Azzopardi, the governor's spokesman, said the executive branch seeks information from JCOPE routinely about matters such as completing financial disclosure filings, conflicts of interest, pre-government employment, ethics training and how to comply with JCOPE's opinions.

Cuomo has previously reached an agreement with Assembly Democrats on ethics legislation that would create new disclosure requirements, campaign finance regulations and travel reimbursement reform.

Cuomo's contract with the company is worth at least $ 700,000, according to a financial disclosure form the governor filed with state ethics regulators earlier this year.

After meeting with his conference on Wednesday evening, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos dismissed the ethics deal, saying any talks of ethics reforms should also include financial disclosures of the executive branch, and should also include domestic partners.

However, in June 2011 Cuomo reached a deal with the Legislature that started a new ethics body - the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE)- and passed a law to require stricter disclosure on legislators» outside income.

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

Currently, state officials must file annual ethics disclosure forms with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

One day before the state ethics commission is to hold hearings on new rules for lobbying disclosures, there are more revelations about a multi million dollar advocacy group associated with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

To clean up the government and restore trust with New Yorkers, we need to pass a new ethics law that mandates transparency and full disclosure as well as a law that calls for a real independent monitor.

What is notable is what is not in the agreement — legislative compensation overhaul, desperately needed stronger ethics enforcement with greater public transparency of votes, comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing that closes the LLC loophole and bans all personal use of campaign funds, strong disclosure and accountability for all executive and legislative discretionary lump sum funds, and a commitment to undertake the necessary examination and full - scale overhaul of our ethics and campaign finance laws.

It is therefore important to determine which ethics rules apply to Ms. Trump, which disclosures she will be required to make to demonstrate her compliance, and whether her compliance with these rules will be monitored and enforced.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said Wednesday that a Senate ethics panel is investigating Sen. Roland Burris following his disclosure that he had spoken with Rod Blagojevich's brother about raising money for the disgraced former governor while seeking appointment to the Senate.

MirRam Group, has had 26 clients this year, 11 of which jumped aboard after Heastie replaced the criminally charged Sheldon Silver as speaker on Feb. 3, according to disclosure filings with the state ethics commission.

Ms. Trump's lawyer, Jamie S. Gorelick, said that «she will file the financial disclosure forms required of federal employees and be bound by the same ethics rules that she had planned to comply with voluntarily.»

We need real ethics reforms: eliminating pension benefits for convicted corrupt officials, a ban on personal use of campaign funds, a full - time legislature with sharp limits on conflicts of interest, and full - disclosure requirements for personal finances.

«We must restore honor and integrity to government with tough new ethics standards, expanded disclosure requirements, independent investigators to root out and punish corruption, and an overhaul of campaign finance laws,» said Cuomo.

Such a disclosure would be required under Gov. Cuomo's new proposed ethics bill and was the focus of a report in Monday's Post that found that Skelos — unlike Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — won't say whether he's representing private legal clients with business before the state.

For instance, financial disclosure statements filed with a joint executive - legislative ethics commission will be posted online.

The plan: To repeal the county's old, amended 1989 ethics policy and replace it with a tougher one, designed to better prevent conflicts of interest, increase fines for financial disclosure violations and strengthen the Board of Ethics.

The biggest single change in the package is an entirely new ethics law, melding a series of them into one law, with more power for the Board of Ethics and stronger public employee disclosure rules.

The ethics agreement will also expand disclosure requirements by political consultants who do work for elected officials as well as for clients with business before the state or local governments, and increase the number of donors to groups that perform lobbying who will be required to disclose their identities.

«The problem with Brenda Fitzgerald is like many in the Trump administration, she was very negligent at submitting her personal financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics and finally worked out an ethics agreement with OGE very late in her term,» Holman said.

For someone whose ethics demand disclosure of potential conflicts, navigating the Kramer Diaspora has come to feel like running through a jungle laced with trip wires.

Members of boards of trustees of charter schools operating under the this section shall file a disclosure annually with the state ethics commission, the department and the city or town clerk wherein such charter school is located.

The purpose of financial disclosure reports is to provide assurance that reporting individuals are in compliance with applicable ethics laws and regulations.

The action followed NASA's denial of ATI's federal Freedom of Information Act request with NASA, seeking records detailing whether and how «global warming» activist Dr. James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behavior.

Operating as the American Tradition Institute (ATI), The Energy and Environment Legal Institute filed a federal FOIA request with NASA seeking information on how climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies «has complied with applicable federal ethics and financial disclosure laws and regulations, and NASA Rules of Behaviour.»

Sheriff Todd Entrekin of Etowah County revealed the compensation on ethics disclosure forms filed with the state, AL.com reports.

This website and our consumer - facing websites are designed to comply with the ABA Model Rules and various state ethics rules by providing clear, visible disclosures and by not endorsing or recommending any particular attorney.

In fact, I've long been predicting that large firms will attempt to force changes in existing ethics rules to reduce the barriers to representation of clients with unremediable conflicts, i.e., conflicts so substantial that they can not be mitigated through disclosure and consent.

To a lesser extent experts can find courses about dealing with instructions, disclosure, ethics, admissibility, conferences with counsel, privilege, liability, and wasted costs orders.

Insofar as section 15 (2) of the policy permits disclosures that might be permitted under American ethics rules but are not permitted under Canadian ethics rules, the proposed policy risks conflict with the existing law governing lawyers in our country and could create a messy situation for lawyers trying to determine how to conduct themselves in accordance with the law.

We proposed that when a covered entity could not practicably obtain oral agreement to disclose protected health information to next - of - kin, relatives, or those with a close personal relationship to the individual, the covered entity could make such disclosures consistent with good health professional practice and ethics.