JCOPE has mostly sat on the sidelines, playing a role in the ouster of just one official: Lopez left the Legislature after new details about his treatment of female staffers emerged in a JCOPE report that was written after he had already been
censured by the chamber's leadership.
Over the course of three days, an Assemblyman has been
censured by the chamber's ethics committee for sexual harassment, and a State Senator has been arrested on corruption charges.
Rangel, 83, a Korean War veteran and dean of the New York congressional delegation, has struggled since being found guilty of House ethics violations and
censured by the chamber in 2010.
Not exact matches
Owego Judge Vincent A. Sgueglia was
censured by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct for having a loaded gun, which accidentally went off, in his
chambers.
Lopez, once a highly regarded Democratic party leader in Brooklyn and head of the
chamber's coveted housing committee, had been
censured by the Assembly the year before, after he was accused of sexually harassing two women who worked in his district office.