ethics

The state could be without a functioning ethics commission for years.

The already divided legislature couldn't agree on how to police itself and other county officials in a party-line 11-6 vote.

The troubled state Joint Commission on Public Ethics, or JCOPE, went out of businesses earlier this month. But progress on creating the new commission has been slow, leaving the state without any ethics panel at all.

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.

Government watchdog groups are making a push to include ethics reform in the state budget. Governor Kathy Hochul promised to overhaul the state’s troubled ethics oversight commission, but so far, the proposal has not been agreed to by the Legislature.

New York’s good government groups see a fresh opportunity to address what they see as a failure of ethics oversight in the executive branch under former governor Andrew Cuomo.

2018 will be a year of criminal trials for former associates of Governor Cuomo, as well as the former leaders of the legislature. Reform groups say they…

When the legislative session ended on June 21st , lawmakers left behind a lot of unfinished business, including a failure to act on ethics reform…

An ethics reform proposal quietly circulated between Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders for a possible special session that could also include a pay…

The second of the state’s top three powerful politicians in two weeks was sentenced to prison in federal court Thursday. Dean Skelos got five years for…