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The new state budget replaces New York’s troubled ethics commission with a new entity aimed at lowering the number of scandals in state government. But critics said the measure doesn’t go far enough and could replicate some of the same problems the current commission created.
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Ethics watchdogs say they are dismayed with a plan developing between Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York state lawmakers that would replace the troubled state ethics commission with a new entity.
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In the lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court in Albany, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused the Joint Commission on Public Ethics of violating his constitutional rights and showing “extraordinary bias against him."
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Government watchdog groups are making a push to include ethics reform in the state budget, and while Gov. Kathy Hochul promised to overhaul the state’s troubled ethics oversight commission, the Legislature has not agreed to the proposal so far.
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The state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE, was created by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he took office a decade ago, it was dominated by his appointments and managed by a succession of close Cuomo allies, and is largely viewed as largely viewed as ineffective,
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The state ethics commission on Tuesday voted to revoke permission that it granted to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to write and publish what became a controversial memoir about how he handled the COVID-19 crisis.
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New York's state ethics panel voted Tuesday to open an independent investigation of how the panel approved a $5 million dollar book deal for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The deal has been the subject of a probe by the state’s attorney general as well as federal investigators.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul has made two appointments to the state's ethics commission, including one from Buffalo.
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While the state legislature considers ways to bolster enforcement of the state’s ethics laws for public officials, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that the current system of enforcing those rules is “flawed” and that she wants to “turn it upside down.”
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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 that solutions can be reached by the end of the summer.