ALBANY—David Grandeau is delighted that the State Senate is scheduled to take up legislation blowing up the structure of ethics enforcement on Thursday, even as the head of the current Commission on Public Integrity made a public plea for its life.
"The basic pro is that anything that rids the state of New Read More
ALBANY—Michael Cherkasky, the man David Paterson appointed to lead the embattled Commission on Public Integrity as he seeks to dissolve it, just issued a statement "respectfully" saying the governor was wrong to call for the commissioners to resign.
"After my full review, I respectfully submit, however, that the Governor's request should be withdrawn," Cherkasky Read More
ALBANY—Michael Cherkasky, the man David Paterson appointed to lead the embattled Commission on Public Integrity as he seeks to dissolve it, just issued a statement "respectfully" saying the governor was wrong to call for the commissioners to resign. "After my full review, I respectfully submit, however, that the Governor's request should be withdrawn," Cherkasky wrote. Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson said that he would push ahead with plans to create a new government ethics commission, which he announced yesterday, even after the executive director of the Commission on Public Integrity, Herb Teitelbaum, heeded the governor's call and resigned. (The other commissioners have not.) Paterson, speaking to reporters after a ceremony commemorating police officers Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson said that he would push ahead with plans to create a new government ethics commission, which he announced yesterday, even after the executive director of the Commission on Public Integrity, Herb Teitelbaum, heeded the governor's call and resigned. (The other commissioners have not.)
Paterson, speaking to reporters after a ceremony commemorating Read More
ALBANY—Robert Hermann, who was alleged by Inspector General Joseph Fisch to have violated the public officers law, is no longer working for the Democrats in the State Senate. "Today, the Senate accepted the resignation of Mr. Robert Hermann, Special Counsel to the Senate Majority, effective immediately," Austin Shafran, press secretary for Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, Read More
ALBANY—Robert Hermann, who was alleged by Inspector General Joseph Fisch to have violated the public officers law, is no longer working for the Democrats in the State Senate.
"Today, the Senate accepted the resignation of Mr. Robert Hermann, Special Counsel to the Senate Majority, effective immediately," Austin Shafran, press secretary for Majority Leader Malcolm Read More
ALBANY—Admitting he has been a "lightning rod for controversy," Herb Teitelbaum has resigned as executive director of the Commission on Public Integrity, effective June 24.
After a report issued by Inspector General Joseph Fisch alleged that Teitelbaum violated the public-officers law, David Paterson called for Teitelbaum and other commissioners to resign. There was Read More
ALBANY—Admitting he has been a "lightning rod for controversy," Herb Teitelbaum has resigned as executive director of the Commission on Public Integrity, effective June 24. After a report issued by Inspector General Joseph Fisch alleged that Teitelbaum violated the public-officers law, David Paterson called for Teitelbaum and other commissioners to resign. There was initial resistance, Read More
ALBANY—The former executive director of the state's now-defunct Lobbying Commission, who was forced out when it was recast as the Commission on Public Integrity, said David Paterson was right to try and blow it up and that current executive director Herb Teitelbaum should resign.
"It has suffered from going from a well-regarded agency to Read More
ALBANY—The former executive director of the state's now-defunct Lobbying Commission, who was forced out when it was recast as the Commission on Public Integrity, said David Paterson was right to try and blow it up and that current executive director Herb Teitelbaum should resign. "It has suffered from going from a well-regarded agency to what Read More
ALBANY—The Commission on Public Integrity just sent a five-page response to the Inspector General's report this morning on its investigation of the Troopergate affair, saying it "inappropriately second guesses" their work and reaches "unfounded conclusions" regarding Executive Director Herb Teitelbaum. Attributed to Zachary Carter, the Integrity Commission's outside counsel, the statement says that commissioners were Read More
ALBANY—The Commission on Public Integrity just sent a five-page response to the Inspector General's report this morning on its investigation of the Troopergate affair, saying it "inappropriately second guesses" their work and reaches "unfounded conclusions" regarding Executive Director Herb Teitelbaum.
Attributed to Zachary Carter, the Integrity Commission's outside counsel, the statement says that Read More
ALBANY—A new report by Inspector General Joseph Fisch finds that while it was investigating the Troopergate affair, the executive director of the Commission on Public Integrity spoke regularly with members of the Spitzer administration.
The report calls for the resignation of Herbert Teitelbaum, who Fisch said may have violated the public officer's law by Read More
