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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court unveiled an ethics code on Monday following a series of scandals over lavish gifts and luxury vacations received by some of its justices. The nine members of the nation's highest court are the only federal judges not explicitly subject to ethical oversight, and pressure has been mounting from Democrats in the Senate for them to adopt a code of conduct. In a statement, the Supreme Court said the absence of a formal code had led to a "misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestrict...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court unveiled an ethics code on Monday following a series of scandals over lavish gifts and luxury vacations received by some of its justices. The nine members of the nation's highest court are the only federal judges not explicitly subject to ethical oversight, and pressure has been mounting from Democrats in the Senate for them to adopt a code of conduct. In a statement, the Supreme Court said the absence of a formal code had led to a "misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestrict...
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Washington (AFP) - A billionaire Republican donor paid for the private school tuition of Justice Clarence Thomas's grandnephew, whom he was raising, a report said Thursday -- the latest in a string of ethics controversies surrounding the US Supreme Court. Thomas did not disclose the payments, according to ProPublica, which also reported last month that real estate tycoon Harlan Crow had gifted the longest-serving justice luxury trips over two decades. A July 2009 bank statement showed that Crow's business had paid a $6,000 monthly bill for a boarding school attended by Mark Martin, Thomas's te...
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Washington (AFP) - A billionaire Republican donor paid for the private school tuition of Justice Clarence Thomas's grandnephew, whom he was raising at the time, a report said Thursday -- the latest in a string of ethics controversies surrounding the US Supreme Court. Thomas did not disclose the payments, according to ProPublica, which also reported last month that conservative real estate tycoon Harlan Crow had gifted the longest-serving justice luxury trips over two decades. According to the report published Thursday, a July 2009 bank statement showed that Crow's business had paid the $6,000 ...
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Washington (AFP) - US senators pressed Tuesday for a binding code of conduct to be forced on the Supreme Court amid a mushrooming scandal over justices accepting lavish gifts and benefiting from undisclosed real estate transactions. Members of the nation's highest judicial body are the only federal judges not explicitly subject to ethical oversight, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pointed out, as they voiced dismay over the refusal of Chief Justice John Roberts to appear before them to discuss reform. Senator Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Democratic-led panel, opened the sessi...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court is used to doing the grilling but it will be the high court itself in the hot seat on Tuesday as a Senate panel conducts an extraordinary examination of the ethics of the justices. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing comes with a record 58 percent of Americans disapproving of the job being done by the court, composed of six conservative and three liberal justices. The Democratic-controlled Senate committee has called the hearing following recent revelations about business dealings by two conservative justices and lavish gifts received by one of them. ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court's Chief Justice John Roberts is refusing to testify in Congress about business dealings by two conservative justices and lavish gifts one received that have raised ethics issues. Roberts cited "separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence" in declining the committee's invitation in a letter dated Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He included a copy of court ethics guidelines and a statement signed by the nine justices in which they "reaffirm and restate foundational ethics principles and practices." But Ro...
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Washington (AFP) - US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was asked Thursday to testify to a Senate committee after news reports raised questions about conservative Justice Clarence Thomas's dealings with a real estate tycoon. In a letter the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Democrats, asked Roberts or another justice of his choosing to appear on May 2 to testify publicly regarding the ethical rules governing the nine justices. Since the last time justices appeared before Congress in 2011, also on ethics questions, "there has been a steady stream of revelations regarding justices fallin...
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New York (AFP) - US authorities fined Ernst & Young a record $100 million over cheating on accounting ethics exams that the firm initially covered up from regulators, officials announced Tuesday. From 2017 to 2021, 49 audit professionals with the "Big Four" firm sent or received answer keys to Certified Public Accountant (CPA) ethics exams, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission order. Hundreds of other Ernst & Young professionals cheated on other exams, while a "significant" number of staff did not cheat themselves but failed to report the misconduct, said the SEC order, part of th...
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Washington (AFP) - The Federal Reserve has asked its watchdog to investigate the trading activities of senior officials, the US central bank said Monday, after two resigned following criticism of their stock market activities. "As part of our comprehensive review, we began discussions last week with the Office of Inspector General for the Federal Reserve Board to initiate an independent review of whether trading activity by certain senior officials was in compliance with both the relevant ethics rules and the law," a Fed spokesperson said. "We welcome this review and will accept and take appro...
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