Jan. 17, 2025 19:04 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, citing the death of a cooperating witness against the Democrat who the governor had once chosen to be her second-in-command.
Judge J. Paul Oetken signed...
Jan. 07, 2025 19:20 PM EST
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When state officials created New York’s new ethics commission in 2022, they billed it as an independent watchdog to replace an old ethics panel roundly criticized for doing too little to reign in public corruption and self-dealing.
One of the Commission on...