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Reinvent Albany’s Rachael Fauss said under the plan, the governor and legislative leaders would retain the power to appoint representatives to the commission, along with the state’s attorney general and comptroller.
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“We don’t want the deck chairs on the Titanic being rearranged,” Horner said. “We want the real independent ethics commission that the public’s been promised.”
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“I will introduce legislation to replace that commission with a new ethics enforcement watch dog. One with real teeth,” Hochul said on January 5, “one that answers to New Yorkers, and not politicians.”
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There are plans in the works for a new state ethics board in 2022, after critics say the old one failed to police alleged transgressions involving former Governor Andrew Cuomo's $5 million dollar book deal.
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The commission voted 12 to 1 for Cuomo to repay within 30 days the $5 million he was paid by the publisher.
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The state ethics panel voted Tuesday to open an independent investigation of how the panel approved a $5 million dollar book deal for former Governor…
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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may be out of office, but his legal troubles aren’t over just yet.An alleged leak to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo from someone inside…
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Experts call on bird watchers to help stop the spread of a disease affecting songbirds. An offshore wind project opens headquarters in Bridgeport, Suffolk…
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The chair of the state Senate Ethics Committee said even though hearings to fix New York’s dysfunctional ethics panel have been delayed, she’s hopeful…
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A New York state Senate hearing scheduled to examine the troubled state ethics commission had to be postponed Monday. There were concerns that it might…