Another undesirable legacy of the Berlusconi government is a devaluation of civic and public ethics.
Reports released earlier this month by a special prosecutor and the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics detailed claims against Lopez.
But a state Joint Commission on Public Ethics report, also released Wednesday, found Lopez violated the public's trust with his actions.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics has completed its investigative report and sent it to the Legislature's ethics commission for action.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics wouldn't divulge details of its report.
The other investigation, by the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, provided a review of Silver's role, but didn't recommend any sanctions against him.
The group and nearly 200 entertainers connected with it aren't currently registered lobbyists, a search by The Associated Press of the database of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics shows.
But the group and nearly 200 entertainers who are gaining attention and support in the dispute, which is splitting New Yorkers, aren't registered lobbyists, according to a search by The Associated Press of the database of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
After a six-hour public hearing, ethics committee members went into closed session, then emerged about a half hour later with their decision.
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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Elliott Abrams is president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
After leaving the Senate in 2007, Mr. Santorum wrote about foreign policy frequently for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he was a fellow until June of 2011.
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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.
Then it became clear that Republican leaders knew of Foley's conduct at least several months before it became public, and the ethics panel probe was launched to determine who knew what when.
In Britain, the phone-hacking scandal brought the demise of the News of the World along with dozens of arrests and resignations, scores of lawsuits against Murdoch's empire and a public inquiry into media ethics.
Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the U.K.'s opposition Labour Party, said Mr. Murdoch had "no option but to go" after "shocking evidence" of alleged bribery by the Sun, revealed this week at a public inquiry into media ethics by the police officer running the three criminal probes.
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Mr. Cole has been a member of the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching courses on public corruption law and legal ethics, and has lectured at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Their actions also serve as important opportunities for the public to gauge just how seriously ethics matters in the face of money, power, and success.
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The development, documented in the peer-reviewed journal Science, may stir anew nagging questions of ethics, law and public safety about artificial life that biomedical experts have been debating for more than a decade.
But Josephine Quintavalle, founder of the public interest group Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) described the use of human embryos for therapeutic treatment as "quite horrifying, " and said that stem cell research should focus on the use of adult stem cells.
Public opinion may be mixed about the ethics of stem cell research, but medical development is plowing full-speed ahead.
After two investigative reports on May 15, Donovan's and another by the state ethics board, Democrats focused their public criticism on Vito Lopez, the assemblyman accused of harassment.
It raises the question of whether ordinary members of the public have an obligation to start thinking about media ethics in the same way as the most experienced war correspondent.
They will discuss plans including making gross misconduct hearings open to the public and the media as well as setting up ethics committees - independent of the police and crime commissioners - for each force.
Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, chairman of the Committee of Public Health and Safety, which is looking into the ethics of cloning.
The Legislative Ethics Commission must make JCOPE's report public within 45 days.
Ohio Republican Bob Ney pleaded guilty in the Abramoff scandal, and a Justice Department ethics probe of Pennsylvania Republican Curt Weldon became public.
The raging debate over the ethics of animal enhancement or transanimalism foreshadows the emerging public discussion over manipulating humans.
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After much negotiation, Democrats and Republicans on the ethics committee agreed two weeks ago to subject Gingrich to public hearings that would have filled C-SPAN's daytime schedule for days.
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