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Cuomo appointee to police Cuomo administration, legislature
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle, 2011
A former top adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will head the state’s new ethics commission. Ellen Biben, above, who worked in the attorney general’s office under Cuomo and whom the governor tapped to be state inspector general a year ago, will be the executive director of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, after a secret vote .
For some critics, the appointment raised questions about whether...
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