In Albany, the state ethics commission had been able to conduct their very own first meeting upon Wednesday afternoon, as it quickly follows the justice decision made on the part of the state Supreme Court. All the while, there’s been a discovery that the agency was made in a violation of the state constitution while it also has had to suspend it’s work, regarding the outcome of any appeal.
Friday, the division appellate of state Supreme Court in Albany had granted what seemed to be only a momentary stay upon the decision that had been issued by the Supreme Court Justice Thomas Marcelle.
Such a stay had been issued only after the office of the Attorney General had filed something of a notice of appeal and an emergency application for the order could allow the commission to keep functioning as the appeal gets litigated. In which case, a permanent stay of the decision hasn’t quite been granted.
Any inconvenience that had been caused from the investigation is subject to review.
No discussion of the court case is being held. However, the ruling that had been issued by Marcelle had been filed in the long-running court battle where the past Governor Andrew M. Cuomo fought against the ethics commission’s tries to investigate the $5 million deal that could be received for penning a book on the administration’s handling of the pandemic. The investigation had centered itself had been centered on allegations for what Governor Cuomo had been improperly using for on-duty government affairs to assist him to research and write his book.
The effort taken to get to the advance of that investigation has resulted in a plan to present the evidence to get reviewed by the Court of Appeals, which happens to be New York’s highest court.
