Espada Wants an IG Probe of His Investigators, IG Says No

ALBANY—The charges against him are selectively pursued, State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. insisted.
The Daily News reported this morning that Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson has subpoenaed his legislative records dating back to 1993. Last night, Espada’s press aide put out an announcement confirming the investigation, and vowing he would file a complaint with Read More

Paterson’s Ethics Head Says Body Should Stay

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“After my full review, I respectfully submit, however, that the Governor’s request should be withdrawn,” Cherkasky Read More

Paterson: Commissioners Were ‘Brazen’ to Defy Order to Resign

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 Read More

State Senate Breaks With Hermann

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