State Dem leader has two words for Diane Savino (updated)
And they’re “register Republican.” State Democratic Committee Executive Director Rodney Capel sent that nastygram to Sen. Diane Savino of the Independent Democratic Conference, who is increasingly...
View ArticleSolitaire Man, and other Tales from the Moreland Hearing
The Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption has posted up the full video of Monday night’s hearing at the Javits Center in New York City, a four-hour marathon that featured an often...
View ArticleHave the Morelanders uncovered criminality? ‘We have,’ Fitzpatrick says
As if the Capitol press corps wasn’t already eagerly awaiting the Dec. 1 interim report from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s anti-corruption Moreland Commission, now comes this allegedly non-tantalizing preview...
View ArticleVideo: In meeting, Board of Elections reacts to Moreland grilling
For your Veterans Day consumption, here’s the full video of the Nov. 1 meeting of the Board of Elections — the panel’s first since three members of its staff received a public spanking at the hands of...
View ArticleLawmakers’ bosses respond to Moreland subpoenas
The latest rebuff to subpoenas sent out by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission on public corruption comes not from state lawmakers, but from the people they work for. No, not the voters: the...
View ArticleMoreland panel: Oh yes we do too have legal authority
In response to today’s court filings seeking to quash its subpoenas of lawmakers’ outside employers, the three co-chairs of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission on Public Corruption keep it short...
View ArticleSkelos, Klein, Silver file their own motion to quash subpoenas
Arguing that the Moreland panel’s bank-shot subpoenas of campaign organizations and lawmakers’ outside employers are thinly veiled incursions on the Legislature, the leaders of the two chambers — Dean...
View ArticleCuomo the lawyer unimpressed with Legislature’s Moreland defense
In response to the Daily News report this morning that more than half of the state lawmakers subpoenaed by the anti-corruption Moreland Commission have complied, Gov. Andrew Cuomo panned the posture of...
View ArticleNYPIRG has reform ideas for the Moreland panel
The New York Public Interest Research Group on Monday released its recommendations to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission on public corruption, which is scheduled to deliver its own preliminary...
View ArticleMoreland, SRCC come to an arrangement on disclosure
There’s a glimmer of peace this morning in the legal battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission on public corruption: At least one of its subpoena targets, the Senate Republican Campaign...
View ArticleMoreland Panel releases first set of recommendations
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s five-month-old Moreland Commission on public corruption is out with its preliminary report to its creator, offering some ideas for the shape of the ethics debate that’s sure to heat...
View ArticleMoreland fixes v. Cuomo fixes, or: The French have a phrase for it
And that phrase is deja vu. As many have noted, the recommendations included in the Moreland panel’s preliminary report include a heaping helping of what was proposed in the spring by Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
View ArticleMoreland report React-O-Mat™
The responses began flowing in just minutes after the Monday-evening release of the Moreland Commission’s report on the sorry state of public ethics in state goevrnment. You know what that means: They...
View ArticleState GOP, others haze Cuomo for fundraiser
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will celebrate his 56th birthday Tuesday night at the Roseland Ballroom, in a fundraiser where the top package price is $50,000 — in other words, don’t feel the need to bring a...
View ArticleIs Joanie Mahoney … the Manchurian Morelander?
Members of the Moreland panel spent a chunk of Tuesday on damage control after Commissioner Joanie Mahoney, the Onondaga County executive who is thought to be one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s favorite...
View ArticleLive: The Fair Elections Campaign press conference
The Fair Elections Campaign is scheduled to hold a 1 p.m. press conference in New York City today highlighting its arguments for making the campaign finance reforms recommended by the anti-corruption...
View ArticleFitzpatrick on pay-for-access event: You’re kidding, right?
Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, a co-chair of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission on public corruption, expressed almost comical disbelief when WCNY’s Susan Arbetter read him...
View ArticleNew Moreland investigations chief a Cuomo vet
The new chief of investigations for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Commission on public corruption has spent the last seven years working for entities controlled by the governor: Robert Addolorato worked...
View ArticleCuomo: Moreland panel will shut down
In a 45-minute conference call with reporters, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his Moreland Commission panel on public corruption will be mothballed if the state Legislature approves the ethics reform...
View ArticleCuomo says Moreland came to natural end
In his comments to reporters in Monroe County on Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo described the continuation of his Moreland Commission as unnecessary given reform legislation accomplished because of the...
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