The U.S. supported the appointment of Joan Dubinsky, an American, to head the UN ethics office.
Any body that does not set up its own ethics monitoring system will come under the secretariat's Ethics Office.
Both cases had been referred to the House committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics, a separate, outside ethics office.
An SEC spokesman said on behalf of Ms. Walter that she abides by her ethics agreement and consults with the SEC's ethics office.
Last month, she promised in a letter to the SEC ethics office to step aside from any decision affecting a former client for one year after she represented them.
Now Spencer Bachus, a Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, is said to be under investigation by the Congressional Ethics Office, although he strongly denies any wrongdoing.
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In 2010, Justice Department officials overruled a recommendation by its ethics office to sanction for professional misconduct the Bush-era lawyers who wrote those memos, and decided not to charge C.
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Although fraud prevention mechanisms, such as the Ethics Helpline and Office of the Ombudsman, led Corporate Security and Internal Audit groups to investigate reports about certain arrestees, they did not appear to run joint investigations or develop a corrective actions approach.
As a result of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution piece, the matter was taken up by the Office of Congressional Ethics which, following an investigation, issued a report concluding that Deal had improperly used his office staff to pressure the Georgia officials to continue the car inspection program that was making Deal hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Following Watergate, a scandal far worse than what we have seen thus far, Congress and the president adopted a number of major government reforms that included a new campaign finance system, ethics rules, the Office of the Independent Counsel, and much more.
In the past, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics was one of the worst.
DC, have done before him: an agency called the Office of Government Ethics approves tax-exempt sales by quite a few people each year (but does not disclose the number).
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Schapiro's personal disclosure form, filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics when her nomination was still pending, said that she had been "chairman" of the FINRA foundation since 2003.
The Office of Government Ethics, which oversees all federal executive branch employees, sided with the House, informing its employees that their spouses and children don't need to file these periodic reports.
The standards committee ruled on 1 February that the Tory leader of the council should receive training in ethics after censuring him for bringing his office into disrepute.
Sloan and others say the failure of the committee to find any violations of House rules points to the need for an outside office of public integrity to handle ethics complaints.
In my case, he let loose the ethics investigators of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to smear my reputation and that of Jay Bybee, who now sits as a federal judge on the court of appeals in San Francisco.
Mr Murphy stepped down after a standards committee found he had brought his office into disrepute and needed to receive ethics training.
Mr. Capretta, a former associate director at the White House Office of Management and Budget, is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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The decision to step down marked an unexpected change of heart for the Nevada Republican who as recently as last month said he would remain in office until his planned retirement from politics because he had not violated ethics rules.
Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law who specializes in legal ethics, said while there is "nothing wrong" with a prosecutor detailing his office's work on a TV program, there is a limit to what prosecutors are allowed to disseminate about still-pending cases.
Organized by the Bioethics Programme at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, with the facilitation of UNESCO Office in Windhoek and in partnership with the University of Namibia, this Ethics Teacher Training Course offers a unique opportunity for participants from all over the world, but especially from Namibia and other countries in the region, to engage in one-week long training designed to enhance their teaching capacities in ethics.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to lead the charge of aggressive ethics reform in Albany, a matter Mr. Cuomo pledged to pursue when he took office in 2011.
According to The Office of Professional Discipline of the State of New York, there were no official ethics complaints on Friehling until the Madoff case.
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