“Today, the Assembly’s Governmental Employees Committee met and had the chance to join me and my Assembly Minority colleagues in moving ethics reform legislation to the floor for a full vote. Unfortunately, the Assembly Majority in the committee balked at this opportunity and Assembly Bill 4643, which would strip state officials convicted of corruption of their taxpayer funded pensions, was overlooked.

“With less than 12 days of session remaining time is running low and we’ve still yet to see any form of ethics reform legislation. The people of New York have spoken and the onus is on the Assembly Majority to take up the legislation my conference has proposed or introduce something substantive.”