The groups, also strong supporters of comprehensive campaign finance reform built around a core of public financing of elections, today focused on the urgent need for ethics reform as another essential way to address the problems created by a money culture in Albany. (reinventalbany.org)
At 9:30 a.m., an hour before former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is sentenced for corrupting his office, government watchdog groups will weigh in on the heightened need for ethics reform before the end of the legislative session, Foley Square, intersection of Lafayette, Worth, and Centre streets, Manhattan. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Those allegedly involved in what U.S. Attorney Preet Bhara said was a wake - up call for Albany on the need for ethics reform were initially charged under a three - county indictment. (nystateofpolitics.com)