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By a better than two-to-one margin — 56 to 27 percent — New Yorkers say the ethics reform legislation passed in the recently completed legislative session will not lead to a reduction in corruption in state government, according to a new Siena College poll of New York state registered […]
Pension forfeiture, spending disclosure rules part of last-minute reform package A last-minute ethics reform deal reached by the governor and legislative conference leaders would strip the pensions of any public officer who is convicted of corruption. Under the agreement reached late Friday, any public officer who is convicted of […]
With only a few days remaining in the session, the Legislature is poised to recess without passing a single anti-corruption measure, say leading good-government groups, despite a “crime wave of corruption” that has engulfed the Capitol and sent the leaders of both the Assembly and Senate to prison. “The […]