The 36-page report — the result of a taxpayer-funded investigation led by international law firm Hogan Lovells — disappeared from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics’ website Fr…
his controversial $5 million pandemic book deal — the now-defunct panel scrubbed the findings from its web site.
The much-maligned JCOPE — whom critics derisively called “J-JOKE” — is being replaced by a new watchdog agency created by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Albany Legislature called the Commission on Ethics in Lobbying and Government. JCOPE officials allowed Cuomo and his team to dictate the terms of what information it would disclose and when about the book contract when it sought approval from the ethics agency.
The belated autopsy said, “The Executive Chamber also successfully coerced JCOPE into expediting the approval and rushing through the process with very minimal due diligence.”
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