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The state could be without a functioning ethics commission for years.
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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.
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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.
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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 Cuomo's $5m book deal
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The state ethics commission voted Tuesday to claw back the $5 million that disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo received for a memoir that he wrote about his management of the COVID-19 pandemic. 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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State's Ethics Commission Votes To Investigate Itself Over Approval Of Former Gov. Cuomo's Book DealThe state ethics panel voted Tuesday to open an independent investigation of how the panel approved a $5 million book deal for former Governor 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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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 have been in violation of New York’s open meetings law, because too many Senators were opting to participate over Zoom, instead of showing up in person.
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Some members of the state’s ethics commission pressed for a subpoena to look into a controversy over Governor Andrew Cuomo’s hiring of former aide Larry…