The state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) said it will conduct an additional inquiry into how a $5.1 million contract for Cuomo’s 2020 memoir was authorized last year – perhaps ironically, by the very same ethics panel – the body’s newly hired chair Jose Nieves said on Tuesday, per …
Read More »‘Hell yeah, I’m bitter’: Obama’s ethics ex-chief rails against Biden White House nepotism in Twitter meltdown
Steve Ricchetti, described as one of President Joe Biden’s “most trusted advisers,” has three children working for the current administration and a lobbyist brother, the Washington Post revealed on Friday. Press secretary Jen Psaki’s sister, wife of chief of staff Ron Klain, and daughter of deputy chief of staff Bruce …
Read More »Ethics violation sanction may be on the cards for Marjorie Taylor Greene as AOC expresses security concern after in-person spat
The incident between the two controversial politicians was witnessed by two reporters for the Washington Post, which detailed the event in a story. Taylor Greene reportedly made a scene, yelling at Ocasio-Cortez that left-leaning groups such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa were “terrorists.” The Republican shouted that Ocasio-Cortez didn’t …
Read More »House Ethics Committee investigating underage sex claims against Trump ally Matt Gaetz
A rising star in the Republican Party’s ‘MAGA wing,’ Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has spent the last two weeks fighting off mounting allegations of corruption and sexual misconduct. First he was accused of sexual encounters with a teenage girl. Then he was accused of paying multiple adult women for sex …
Read More »Google fires ANOTHER AI ethics researcher amid row over ‘censorship & racism,’ as team member accuses company of ‘smear campaign’
Margaret Mitchell, who led Google’s Ethical AI unit, announced her termination in a brief tweet on Friday, saying only “I’m fired” without offering further detail. Google’s own statement on the matter was left somewhat vague, confirming Mitchell was let go over “multiple violations of our code of conduct,” while adding …
Read More »Deputies of the Saratov regional Duma, a fight over the issue of violation of ethics
Two deputies accused of breach of parliamentary ethics. During the announcement of this decision, one of them began to remove the speaker on the phone. The argument escalated into pouring water and a fight. At the meeting of the Saratov regional Duma deputies scuffled. Video of the brawl was published …
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