Review panel status: stalled

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Rick Karlin

Who's watching the watchers? In the case of the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, no one is.

That wasn't intended three years ago, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers passed the law creating JCOPE. The legislation also called for creation by June 1, 2014, of an eight-member review panel to "study, review and evaluate" the activities and performance of the commission. The bill says the review panel is supposed to issue a report in 2015.

But as of Tuesday, spokesmen for Cuomo, Assembly Democratic Majority Speaker Sheldon Silver and Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos had no answers on the review commission's status.

That wasn't a surprise to David Grandeau, a former Lobbying Commission director and frequent JCOPE critic.

http://m.timesunion.com/local/article/Review-panel-status-stalled-5639844.php