Report highlights flaws of defunct watchdog

July 15, 2022 – As a parting goodbye, the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics released a report on the watchdog’s internal approval process of a request by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to write a pandemic memoir in 2020. The Times Union’s Chris Bragg shares the details of the analysis and highlights what it says about the entity’s broader failings over the past 11 years.