2018 - 2020 -- ILLUSTRATIVE PRESS -- JCOPE

 2018

June 11, 2018
"New York top ethics enforcement agency slammed as toothless 'lapdog'
for exonerating ex-Cuomo aide"
Daily News (Glenn Blain)

July 29, 2018
"Is ethics agency probing Cuomo? Republican challenger sues to find out"
Albany Times Union (Chris Bragg)

July 31, 2018 
"Ethics commissioner wants option to make status of probes public"
Albany Times Union  (Chris Bragg) 

August 5, 2018
"What has JCOPE actually done?"
City & State (Kay Dervishi)

August 20, 2018
"NY Attorney General's office won't defend state ethics panel against GOP lawsuit"
Daily News  (Ken Lovett)

October 18, 2018
"Arguments heard in lawsuit seeking Percoco probe"
The Telegraph (Chris Bragg)

December 19, 2018
"Judge says JCOPE must vote on Percoco complaint"
Albany Times Union (Chris Bragg)

December 19, 2018
"JCOPE's new regs constrained by settlement"
Albany Times Union (Chris Bragg)

December 19, 2018
"N.Y. ethics commission must vote on whether to probe ex-Cuomo aide..."
Daily News (Chris Sommerfeldt)

December 20, 2018
"Judge rules that state watchdog has 30 days to decide on potential Cuomo probe"
NY Post (Carl Campanile)

2019

January 4, 2019
"Cuomo picks former Onondaga County deputy
exec Bill Fisher for ethics panel"
Syracuse.com  (Tim Knauss)

January 29, 2019
"Gary Lavine of Syracuse is back on NY ethics board,
thanks to Senate Republicans"
Syracuse.com (Tim Knauss)

January 31, 2019
"JCOPE says it has voted on Percoco complaint"
Albany Times Union (Chris Bragg)

February 2, 2019
"Albany's ethics watchdog is useless"
New York Post (editorial)

March 13, 2019
"JCOPE ethics panel fails as government watchdogs"
Syracuse (Luke Parsnow)

March 27, 2019
"Replace JCOPE with an independent body"
City & State (Ross Barkan)

May 22, 2019
"New York state watchdog's top agency head Seth Agata to step down"
New York Post (Bernadette Hogan)

May 28, 2019
"Reform groups say scrap JCOPE, as national report rates it among the worst"
WBFO (Karen DeWitt)

May 29, 2019
"'So Completely Compromised':  New York Watchdog Agencies Have a Credibility Problem"
Gotham Gazette (Samar Khurshid)

August 10, 2019
"Probing JCOPE's motives"
Albany Times Union (Fred LeBrun)

August 20, 2019
"New York's attorney general won't defend state ethics panel against GOP lawsuit"
Daily News (Ken Lovett)

September 10, 2019
"Protest Held at JCOPE meeting"
Spectrum News (Nick Reisman)

October 24, 2019
"Rape survivor files lawsuit against state ethics panel accuing her of lobbying,
calls on Cuomo to fire JCOPE chairman"
Daily News (Denis Slattery)

November 13, 2019
"Inspector general probed ethics panel's alleged leak to Cuomo"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

November 15, 2019
"Flawed by design: State ethics panel's Percoco flub is a feature not a flub"
Daily News (editorial)

November 16, 2019
"Pulling JCOPE's strings"
Albany Times Union (editorial)

November 16, 2019
"IG won't say if Cuomo, Heastie interviewed in ethics' leak probe"
Oleans Times hearld - Albany Times Union (Brendoa Lyons)

December 17, 2019
"New York ethics agency votes down 'self-assessment' of its operations"
Albany Times Union (Chris Bragg)

December 13, 2019
"Is it time to replace JCOPE?"
City & State  (Zach Williams)

2020

February 25, 2020
"Internnal rancor continues as JCOPE"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

February 28, 2020
"Lawmakers seek to bypass Cuomo, overhaul state ethics panel"
Albany Times Union (Brendan Lyons)

September 18, 2020
"New York's ethics' panel renews search for a leader"
Albany Times Union (Chris Bragg)

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