Sentences with phrase «with ethics scandals»

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On Monday, in an attempt to clear out any more undiscovered scandals, the Montreal - based firm announced it would provide amnesty this summer to any employee with information regarding the company's ethics problems.

We should attempt to understand the scandals associated with Mark Driscoll as indicative of the crimes and passions we excuse or berate in our various heroes as a mirror to critique our own loyalties and ethics.

«Evangelicals have completely turned their political ethics on its head,» he said, citing the difference in how evangelicals discussed the Clinton sex scandal compared to Trump's alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Still, the amount of money raised is eyebrow - raising for good - government advocates, who have been pushing for a host of ethics reforms in the wake of the corruption scandals, arrests and convictions, with still more investigations ongoing.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces potentially make - or - break hearings today on Capitol Hill, where he is expected to be peppered with questions about spending and ethics scandals that have triggered bipartisan calls for his ouster.

Fred LeBrun writes Cuomo is «dead wrong» if he thinks passing an ethics reform package in the wake of the scandals will help state government's image with the public.

The effect of the phone hacking scandal originating with the News of the World also raised wider questions about the ethics employed by companies under Murdoch's ownership, as well as the effects the scandal will have on the ethics employed specifically by print journalists and to some extent the wider world of journalism.

Democratic voters have one major takeaway from the 2016 election: avoid anointing flawed candidates with limited progressive values, shaky ethics, and a penchant for scandals.

With ethics troubles of his own (he's been accused of taking bribes to pay his legal bills for another alleged scandal), William Boyland Jr. is being forced to fend off a gaggle of challengers, including Roy Antoine, Anthony Herbert, Anthony Jones, David Miller, Nathan Bradley and Christopher Durosinmi.

After a string of corruption scandals hit the Legislature, Cuomo impaneled the commission to investigate the Legislature when lawmakers failed to reach an agreement with him on new ethics laws.

House Republicans, with no warning and overriding their top leaders, voted yesterday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says the Assembly's sexual harassment scandal presents the first true test for the fledgling ethics commission, created by Governor Cuomo and lawmakers last year.

Now, with Cuomo on the defensive over a scandal involving his ethics commission, Astorino says he's seeing some gains in fundraising and interest in his campaign.

«With New York government scarred by a shameful parade of scandals, ethics reform is once again at the forefront of this year's legislative session and I call on the Senate and Assembly to include real restrictions on these taxpayer - funded mailings that serve no legitimate governmental purpose,» Singas wrote.

With the corruption scandals that have roiled the state; the last - minute flurry of legislation this past June and watered - down ethics reform packages, there's not a lot to love about the way our state government is functioning right now.

President Obama in 2010 said he was troubled by Rangel's ethics scandal and hoped he would retire «with dignity.»

The first legislative scandal to coincide with his tenure is the time for him to use the popularity he has with the public to achieve ethics reform.

Government reformers say with a burgeoning scandal involving potential violations of campaign limits in Democratic Senate races in 2014, and the scheduled sentencing of the two former leaders of the legislature in early May, it's time to focus on ethics fixes.

A day after squabbling with state lawmakers over the best way to achieve ethics reform and before the anticipated opening of indictments in a sweeping pay - to - play scandal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday unveiled a long list of anti-corruption measures.

As part of the Senate minority, Schneiderman struggled for sweeping ethics reforms and in his brief time in the majority, he fell into Albany's routine ethics triage by responding to the latest scandal with bandaids.

The attitudes from some gamers towards games journalism have also changed quite significantly, with some intent on «exposing» some sort of ethics - based scandal they're adamant is a widespread issue.

The scandal of a report to the Law Society was only averted when Hine agreed to sign a solemn undertaking to his colleagues to comply strictly with professional ethics.