Ethics Panel Fines Top Mayor and Former Speaker Aide Maura Keaney

A former deputy chief of staff to Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn who recently served as a top aide to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s re-election effort has been fined for violating city law by soliciting campaign contributions for Ms. Quinn while working for her. In announcing the sanction on Monday, the city’s Conflicts of Interest [...]

Ethics Watchdogs Raise Eyebrows with Contributions

The people who are supposed to police the ethics of New York’s top elected leaders are also donating to them. Four members of the state’s much-maligned Public Integrity Commission have contributed $5,000 since its creation in 2007 – 80% of it since July – to the campaigns of Gov. Paterson, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and [...]