Sentences with phrase «independent state ethics commission»

The governor's failure to «establish an independent State ethics commission with robust enforcement powers» will leave him open to the attacks from County Executive Astorino, and other possible candidates, that he hasn't adequately dealt with Albany's ethical woes.

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Cuomo's subpoena - empowered commission was close down following an agreement on ethics legislation last year that included new anti-corruption laws and independent enforcement at the state Board of Elections.

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.

The current ethics panel known as the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, created in 2011, would be replaced by the Independent State Commission on Public Ethics.

Among his recommendations, Astorino favors switching elected officials from the defined - benefit pension plan to a defined - contribution plan; replacing the per diem system for lawmaker expenses to one requiring stricter bookkeeping; and scrapping the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics in favor of a new independent ethics watchdog appointed by the judiciary.

Klein late Thursday sent a letter to the state's ethics commission asking for an independent investigation.

Cuomo is also calling for establishing an independent ethics commission, full disclosure of outside income and clients by legislators, a board of trustees rather than the sole trustee model for the state comptroller's office and the creation of «Open NY» — a one - stop - shopping clearinghouse of all public information much like his «Project Sunlight» at the AG's office.

The state's independent ethics commission took the first official ethics - related action in Albany since the convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday when it appointed a man with ties to both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders as its new executive director.

The two legislative leaders declined to attend any of the six State of the State events, expressing their displeasure at the governor for interfering in the work of an independent commission that would have given lawmakers pay raises for the first time in years and then leveraging ethics reform to consider a special legislative session in December.