During the first legislative session after her election, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul.
During the first legislative session after her election as governor, her administration passed a state ethics law overhaul.
Yet state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from using the threat of criminal liability to obtain advantage in a civil settlement.
There have been several sensational scandals, including one for which the outgoing governor, Bob Taft, pleaded no contest to state ethics violations.
And he publicly threatened criminal action to force Merrill into a civil settlement--despite state ethics rules that forbid this kind of leverage.
Sicari is appealing a 2008 state ethics committee ruling that he can't continue working as a paid entertainer while on the bench.
Two reports by the state ethics board and a special prosecutor criticized Silver for the settlement, which they said violated Assembly policy for handling such claims.
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.
Former state ethics board Executive Director Karl Sleight said that in his experience it was "very unlikely" that a state official would report concerns about another state official's ethical behavior.
The state ethics reform requires spouses of policy-making state employees to report any business activity that licensed or regulated by the state or any business he or she had with the state.
Two investigations came to differing conclusions about her actions: One found she violated state ethics law by using state employees to put pressure on her former in-law, another found she had stayed within the law and little evidence she knew of the actions of her subordinates.
In anticipation of Senate approval, Mr. Kerry, 69 years old, has told State Department ethics officials he will divest some of his and his wife's holdings and investments to avoid any potential conflict.
Mr. Koch carried on a political feud with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and lobbied New York state government for ethics reform.
Take to social media, says San Diego State University management and ethics expert, Dan Eaton.
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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 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.
She said a major factor in her decision to quit as Alaska's governor was the mounting legal cost she and the state faced in fighting nearly 20 ethics charges.
Dena Davis, a law and ethics professor at Cleveland State University and the legal consultant on the AAP's policy review, says that she personally favours considering a symbolic cut, because of the potential for harm reduction.
Without tying ethics to a business curriculum, "we are graduating students who are very myopic in their decision-making, " says Diane Swanson, founding chair of the Business Ethics Education Initiative at Kansas State University.
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In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents.
He helped to pass ethics and campaign-finance reforms in a state loth to do so.
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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She got elected in 2006 by campaigning as a reformer, pushing ethics legislation and railing against cozy ties between the state's political establishment and the oil industry that undergirds Alaska's economy.
Jindal, in his second term at age 41, has built up a record of ethics reforms, cuts to business taxes and his state's response to the devastating BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The ethics and actions of every lawyer is regulated by their representative State Bar Association.
Croft was impressed, and he asked her to join him in another ethics fight -this time, a conflict of interest complaint against the state's Republican attorney general.
He recalls how Palin quit over the ethics violations of another commissioner, a man who also happened to be the chair of the state Republican Party.
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