Sentences with phrase «with subpoena powers»

ATSIC should also be provided with subpoena powers and the ability to call government departments to appear before the ATSIC Board to account for their performance on delivering services to Indigenous peoples.

With more than 30 state lawmakers who have been embroiled in legal or ethical dilemmas since 2000, the state needs an independent watchdog with subpoena powers to not only examine individual instances of wrongdoing, but also to propose solutions to systemic problems of corruption that plague New York.

And he said, «well, I'm going to appoint this commission with subpoena powers from the Attorney General to look at all you guys,» and then Cuomo mysteriously abruptly shut down that commission over a year ago as part of budget negotiations.

«I think there is a sense that the acquisition of great wealth is a value in and of itself and rules are for chumps,» said Brodsky, who spent much of his 20 years rooting out corruption as a crusading committee chairman with subpoena power.

Making good on a long - standing threat, Cuomo today is expected to create a special Moreland Act Commission with subpoena power to investigate legislative corruption.

Even this Commission, armed with subpoena power, still has been unable to track down the sources of the torrent of money flowing into and within our state.»

Democrats want a new inspector general's office with subpoena power to probe questionable contracts.

Trotta on Monday filed a proposed resolution to create a bipartisan six member legislative committee with subpoena power to probe alleged wrongdoing at top levels of the county police department.

Such commissions come with subpoena power, and virtually open - ended authority to dig behind the scenes.

In something of a veiled threat to Cuomo, Skelos pointed out that the Legislature has investigative committees with subpoena power that can look into the executive branch.

With the laws approved through the override, the NYPD will get a watchdog with subpoena power to examine the NYPD's «operations, policies, programs and practices,» not just stop - and - frisk, like the court monitor.

«With subpoena power, there might be more explicit cases that come out,» Mahoney said.

Along with subpoena power, you have the power given by the rules of discovery, to conduct discovery, send interrogatories (written questions to the opponent and non -...

Not exact matches

When Schneiderman and Cuomo formed the commission in July, stacking it with district attorneys and other legal experts, they agreed to make each member a deputy attorney general, giving the panel broad investigative authority in addition to its subpoena powers.

Cuomo used his authority under state law to appoint a panel with sweeping subpoena powers only after the Legislature refused to pass his anti-corruption bills.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has also subpoenaed Con Ed and LIPA for plans and performance records on restoring power, communicating with customers without power and other aspects of the utilities» responses to the storm.

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.

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

A battle already is underway, with 15 contenders vying for the $ 194,243 - a-year post, with the power to subpoena, indict and prosecute violent criminals and corrupt politicians.

He should revive the Moreland Commission as a truly independent body, with the power to investigate, subpoena, and prosecute public corruption throughout the state, even if it affects those close to him.

The hiring of a Garcia comes after the Democratic - led Assembly retained the services of Kasowtiz, Benson, Torres & Friedman when dealing with the comission, which has subpoena power.

The single - source contract began in May 2016, after NYPA was served with a grand jury subpoena related to Competitive Power Ventures, the energy company that employed Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., who prosecutors say bribed ex-Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco in exchange for official actions.

The AG does not have subpoena power in public corruption cases, which has caused Schneiderman to get creative, teaming up with his fellow statewide Democrat, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, whose office does have that power, to prosecute the misuse of public funds.

His most cynical and telling move last year was to charter a special state commission to investigate corruption in Albany, vesting it with independent subpoena powers, and then blocking attempts by that very commission to look into donors and activities that led back to his own administration.

Most notably, the AG lacks subpoena power in corruption cases, which hamstrings him considerably — so much so that AG Eric Schneiderman has resorted to teaming up with state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who does have suboena power, to prosecute the misuse of public funds.

Invites a years - long legal battle with New Jersey by granting subpoena power over the Port Authority to a Cuomo - appointed official.

The subpoena also seeks information about the administration's interactions with the Millennium pipeline company, which will connect the CPV plant to a natural gas pipeline network as well as the New York Power Authority's actions taken to connect the power plant to the Power Authority's actions taken to connect the power plant to the power plant to the grid.

We're the investigative arm of congress, and I've been doing energy and science issues much as I was doing as a journalist, but with the power of subpoena; makes it a lot of fun.

Deniers with political power issue subpoenas, file investigative demands, and even hold kangaroo hearings.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, refused to comply with the subpoena, which he said «oversteps the boundaries of federalism, separation of powers, and the committee's own jurisdiction.»

In its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.»

And that was from a Chairman with majority subpoena powers.

But, the decision leaves Congress with the option of potentially changing that statute which currently limits the personal jurisdiction of federal trial courts to that of a state court of general jurisdiction in the same state, as it already does in cases that are predominantly «in rem» (e.g. interpleader cases and interstate boundary and real property title disputes), in bankruptcy cases, and with respect to the subpoena power of U.S. District Courts.