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Vito Lopez probe poses big test for ethics panel

September 10, 2012 1:16 AM By DAN JANISON dan.janison@newsday.com

Assemb. Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn)

Photo credit: Bryan Pace, 2001 | Assemb. Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn)

Dan Janison

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The politics of who investigates politicians, when and for what becomes more complicated than the cases themselves.

For the first time in New York, appointees of the governor have a direct, immediate role in probing a major scandal in the State Legislature, a separate government branch. For this reason, the recently exposed sexual harassment charges against Assemb. Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn)...

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