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Investigative Post: Assembly Member Crystal Peoples-Stokes blocking corruption bill

Heastie has a willing accomplice in Assembly Member Crystal Peoples-Stokes, who has kept two of the measures bottled up in the Government Operations Committee that she chairs.

A lot of issues scream for reform in Albany: ethics, campaign finance, cash bail. But nothing rivals state contracting practices, not in the wake of the corruption convictions of Alain Kaloyeros and three developers who contributed heavily to Andrew Cuomo’s gubernatorial campaign, including Lou Ciminelli of Buffalo.

Yet here we are, 21 months after the indictments, two months after the convictions, with no reform. Yes, Cuomo has proposed a handful of changes, but they satisfy practically no one. Meanwhile, a trio of bills sit stalled in the Assembly, a victim of Speaker Carl Heastie’s willingness to appease the governor by refusing to bring them up for a vote.

Heastie has a willing accomplice in Assembly Member Crystal Peoples-Stokes, who has kept two of the measures bottled up in the Government Operations Committee that she chairs.

You can read the full Investigation Report here.

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