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Cuomo: NY ethics panel should probe Assemblyman Vito Lopez

Assemb. Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn)

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

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants the case of an assemblyman accused of sexual harassment to go to the state ethics board.

Cuomo said he can't direct the independent Joint Commission on Public Ethics to take the case, but he says JCOPE could handle the disputed elements of the case.

The Assembly's ethics committee found Assemblyman Vito Lopez, the Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman, sexually harassed...

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