Schneiderman probed for allegedly tapping Trumps for cash
The state ethics watchdog has launched a probe into whether state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman illegally solicited campaign contributions from Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her husband...
View ArticleTrump calls AG Schneiderman a ‘sleazebag’ amid probe
Donald Trump is crediting New York’s never-ending corruption scandals for prodding the state’s ethics agency to investigate his complaint that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hit up Trump’s...
View ArticleWhat scandals? Albany lobbyists rake in $226 million
ALBANY — Continuing scandals in Albany haven’t stopped the flow of big money to lobbyists, who reported they raked in $226 million last year. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics on Wednesday released...
View ArticleCuomo’s ethics-watchdog agency is ineffective: review board
ALBANY — On the same day jury selection began for the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a review panel assembled by Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders issued a tepid report on the...
View ArticleNew teeth for New York’s ethics watchmouse
Good-government groups hail it as a major step forward, but the reforms offered in a 307-page report on the state’s ethics “watchdog” amount to little more than lipstick on a pig. They’re fine — as far...
View ArticleHeastie selects state ethics panelists originally picked by Silver
ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has reappointed two members to a state ethics panel who were first put there by his crooked predecessor, Sheldon Silver. Heastie defended his move extending the...
View ArticleAssembly Speaker Heastie retains Albany lobbyist as paid consultant
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is paying $4,000 a month to a political consulant who is also a lobbyist with a long list of clients seeking help from the Legislature’s most powerful Democrat. Heastie’s...
View ArticleOn ethics, New York politicians still won’t walk the walk
State and city politicians are talking tough on ethics reform these days — but their actions tell a different tale. Consider two disclosures, each perfectly legal, that smell to high heaven. Assembly...
View ArticleAn outrageous power grab by New York’s fake ethics watchdog
With the capital a notorious cesspool of corruption for lo, these many years, New Yorkers have rightly viewed the state’s ethics “watchdog” as a mere joke. But now the Joint Commission on Public Ethics...
View ArticleAn ‘ethics’ assault on the First Amendment
After years of helping hide Albany corruption, a band of loose-cannon bureaucrats has taken on a new mission: “regulating” the First Amendment. The state Joint Commission on Public Ethics just passed...
View ArticleOust the JCOPE bureaucrats for their speech-suppressing power grab
A spectrum of New York p.r. firms filed suit Tuesday to force the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics to drop its lunatic bid to treat them as lobbyists. Here’s hoping the courts slap JCOPE fast...
View ArticleAlbany’s ethics watchmice get a new Big Cheese
New York’s anti-corruption watchmice — the members of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — are remarkably consistent. Consistently servile, that is. After a nine-month nationwide search, the...
View ArticleSorry, Mayor de Blasio: Your problem’s not Andrew Cuomo, it’s Preet Bharara
A good offense may often be the best defense in sports, but Mayor de Blasio is whistling in the dark if he really thinks it’s his way out of one of the biggest political scandals in New York City...
View ArticleThe latest explanation for New York corruption
Glenwood Management — and all the New York pols it bribed over the years — must be laughing all the way to the bank. Wednesday, the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics hit the real estate firm...
View ArticleSchneiderman probed for allegedly tapping Trumps for cash
The state ethics watchdog has launched a probe into whether state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman illegally solicited campaign contributions from Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and her husband...
View ArticleTrump calls AG Schneiderman a ‘sleazebag’ amid probe
Donald Trump is crediting New York’s never-ending corruption scandals for prodding the state’s ethics agency to investigate his complaint that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hit up Trump’s...
View ArticleWhat scandals? Albany lobbyists rake in $226 million
ALBANY — Continuing scandals in Albany haven’t stopped the flow of big money to lobbyists, who reported they raked in $226 million last year. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics on Wednesday released...
View ArticleCuomo’s ethics-watchdog agency is ineffective: review board
ALBANY — On the same day jury selection began for the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a review panel assembled by Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders issued a tepid report on the...
View ArticleIn Albany, sleaze never goes unrewarded
File this under Classic Albany Sleaze: On Friday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie placed a top aide to convicted felon Shelly Silver on the state ethics panel — even though the panel said the aide helped...
View ArticleUnion finds MTA work-around to ‘pay back’ Cuomo support
Political ads are banned in the subways — but the MTA has no problem with a public service ad that features a smiling Gov. Andrew Cuomo surrounded by kids in an election year. In an end run around the...
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