Posted by After the Rochester billionaire Tom Golisano brokered the coup last week that threw the State Senate into chaos, he strolled the halls of the Capitol proclaiming himself a reformer on a mission to shake up Albany’s old ways of questionable ethics and self-dealing.
But what Mr. Golisano did not advertise is that his own political action committee, Responsible New York, is under investigation, as are two other groups run by his top adviser, Steven Pigeon, who helped him engineer the Republican takeover of the Senate.
The Erie County Board of Elections is reviewing a series of transactions made by Responsible New York as part of an investigation of political action committees controlled by Mr. Pigeon. The State Board of Elections also recently sent the Albany County district attorney a case involving allegations that Responsible New York was improperly coordinating activities with individual campaigns.
