Gov says commission wasn’t ‘independent,’ despite what members thought
Jimmy Vielkind
ALBANY—The anti-corruption Moreland Commission was never meant to be independent, aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo now say, and the notion that it should have looked at the governor himself “would not pass the laugh test.”
It seems doubtful that the now-defunct panel's former leaders are laughing.
“I think we've learned that politics trumps reform every time,” said Barbara Bartoletti, the longtime legislative director for the League of Women Voters who was appointed as a 'special adviser' to the committee. “As it all begins to come out … of course I'm disappointed.”
As was laid bare in a New York Times expose published Wednesday morning, Cuomo aides directed the commission of district attorneys and legal experts that the governor himself convened whenever their investigative noses drew them toward his major allies, vendors or contributors.
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