Sentences with phrase «shuttered ethics commission»

ALBANY — U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is getting a trove of «unseemliness» in the truckload of documents he retrieved from Governor Andrew Cuomo's shuttered ethics commission, according to the commission's former co-chairman.

And it paid $ 10,000 to the firm of Morvillo Abramowitz, where Cuomo has retained white collar criminal defense attorney Elkan Abramowitz to represent members of the governor's staff in the inquiry into the shuttered ethics commission.

Not exact matches

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 ethics package that produced the pilot public campaign finance program for the state comptroller race also included the shuttering of Governor Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission, which was in the midst of probing possible corruption cases.

This isn't the first time a commission formed under Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been tasked with reviewing ethics in New York, though the recent Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption was unceremoniously shuttered before it could completecommission formed under Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been tasked with reviewing ethics in New York, though the recent Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption was unceremoniously shuttered before it could completeCommission to Investigate Public Corruption was unceremoniously shuttered before it could complete its work.

The Skelos news also comes a year after the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption was shuttered following an agreement on ethics reform in the state budget in 2014.

The governor insists that he'd declared from the outset that he'd shutter the commission when the Legislature passed an ethics bill, and that's true.

The poll, conducted over four days last week, is the first to account for the breadth of negative coverage Cuomo's received in the weeks since the publication of a 6,000 - word story in the New York Times on July 23 that detailed the administration's handling of the ethics commission, which the governor abruptly shuttered in April this year.

Bharara was critical of Cuomo's decision to shutter the Moreland Commission in exchange for the Legislature's approval of improved ethics laws.

Cuomo is under increasing pressure to act on ethics as he shuttered the Moreland Commission that was investigating legislative misconduct in a 2014 deal with Silver and Skelos — a deal that greatly angered Bharara and appears to have sparked a federal investigation.