Press Releases

March 31, 2015 - A NY state ethics deal may have been reached, but no one has yet seen a bill.   Only 15 hours remain before the deadline of the state budget’s required passage is reached.

March 31, 2015 - New York needs a much stronger response than the ethics bill finally presented mid-afternoon today by the governor and the legislature to solve Albany’s crime wave of political corruption.

March 18, 2015 - Good government groups see agreement that still leaves much unfinished reform on the table.

March 12, 2015 - Good government group wants to cap and disclose all outside income, boost legislative salaries, increase JCOPE role and budget, expand disclosure of executive and legislative lump sum funds, and end use of budget for policy changes.

February 5, 2015 - Citizens Union’s corruption tracker shows Albany’s crime wave continues to rise.

February 2, 2015 - Citizens Union finds promise in Governor Cuomo’s call today for comprehensive ethics reform to end the culture of secrecy in Albany that has fed the crime wave of corruption.

January 26, 2015 - Good government group believes speaker Sheldon Silver no longer has the trust of the public to govern effectively.

January 22, 2015 - Calls for improvements in ethics enforcement and in addressing outside income.

December 2, 2014 - Citizens Union today sent a letter to the Conflicts of Interest Board (the “Board”) requesting an investigation into whether a meeting on July 14, 2014, attended by Mayor Bill de Blasio and sponsored by Local 1182 of the Communications Workers of America (“CWA”) at P.S. 66 in Brooklyn may have violated the conflicts of interest provisions of the New York City Charter.