Log in Subscribe

Corruption Panel: Political System Is Marked by ‘Deplorable Conduct’

By MARK TOOR
Posted 12/9/13

A preliminary report released last week by Governor Cuomo’s Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption said it had found “more than enough information to warrant sounding the alarm for immediate legislative action to help stem the tide of corruption.”

The report did not name the lawmakers the commission was investigating. “What we can describe, though, is deplorable conduct, some of it perfectly legal yet profoundly wrong; some of it potentially illegal—and, indeed, this commission will make appropriate criminal referrals at such time as it deems appropriate.”

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in