Sentences with phrase «formed state ethics commission»
The newly formed state ethics commission, championed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, found that a lobbying group closely associated with the Governor's policies, The Committee to Save New York was the biggest spender in 2011.
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The issue first came to light in a leaked memorandum from the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, Risa Sugarman, a position formed in 2014 following an ethics agreement in the budget and the shuttering of the Moreland Commission, a panel formed to investigate corruption in the Legislature.
«I think [the executive] chamber's staff are free to go at any time, but I was aware that there were times when Joe's clearance, or — I guess permission's not the right word because there is no form of control — but people would want to run it by Joe before someone left the executive chamber,» said Seth Agata, who now runs the state's ethics commission.
What Cuomo says he did not know was reported by Percoco in financial disclosure forms with the state ethics commission in mid-2015.
Currently, state officials must file annual ethics disclosure forms with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
According to the forms, made public by the state ethics commission, former longtime Cuomo associate Joe Percoco earned up to $ 125,000 from Clough Harbor Associates and COR development, two firms involved in Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion project and other taxpayer funded high - tech developments associated with SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.