The legislature is currently working on their own ethics reform package, and Silver says they are unlikely to support an overall commission to enforce all ethics violations. (wrvo.org)
He had even used the threat of a Moreland Act commission before, most significantly to negotiate an earlier ethics reform package in 2011. (nydailynews.com)
The proposal is the latest in a series of ethics reform packages to be intrdouced in the wake of the arrests of Sen. Malcolm Smith and, in a separate case, Assemblyman Eric Stevenson. (nystateofpolitics.com)