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The Assembly Minority Conference

Statement From Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay On JCOPE Decision To Release Report On Former-Gov. Cuomo’s Book Deal

“In what would appear to be its final meeting, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics voted 10-1 to publicly release the report on their staff’s 2020 approval of disgraced former-Gov. Cuomo’s $5.1 million book deal.

Since its inception 11 years ago, the commission has seemingly gone out of its way to be anything but transparent and straightforward.

The circumstances surrounding their staff’s approval of Cuomo’s book deal, written during one of the worst public health crises in modern day history, deserve to be public.In their final act, I am pleased to see that the members finally took a step toward protecting ethics in New York state.”