ethics

"It clearly is a step forward. It increases accountability and decreases corruption risk."

The case against former Assembly member Angela Wozniak from the Buffalo area dates from 2016, when she was accused of harassing a male staffer.

A key issue in this criminal case is the U.S. Constitution's "speech and debates" clause. That says a member of Congress can't be challenged for something he says in Congress.

I never considered it for a second. This is nothing to do with anything in the report, this is because I embarrassed Jay Costa by releasing the exonerating report, and I embarrassed other people who had called for me to resign."

A national report finds that New York state’s ethics panel is among the worst in the nation. Reform groups say that’s not news to them and have called for an overhaul of the commission.

When a police investigator, Fred Akshar (R - Endwell) had intimate relations with a mother of a crime victim. According to the Gannett papers, Akshar had helped investigate her son's murder.

PA's State Ethics Commission could not meet the burden of "clear and convincing proof" that Bane had violated the Ethics Act.

Treasurer Joe Torsella said fellow Democrat Senator Daylin Leach has shown a troubling pattern of "lashing out" against people who have accused him of sexual misconduct.

The push for a public campaign finance system for New York’s politicians heated up as a feud erupted between three young female lawmakers and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top aides.

Donald Trump's former campaign chairman was ordered to serve some of his time concurrently with a 4-year term handed down last week, making his sentence a total of 7.5 years.