| With Albany rocked by a seemingly endless barrage of scandals and arrests, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo set up a high-powered commission last summer to root out corruption in state politics. It was two months old when its investigators, hunting for violations of campaign-finance laws, issued a subpoena to a media-buying firm that had placed millions of dollars' worth of advertisements for the NYS Democratic Party.The subpoena was swiftly withdrawn... "They apparently produced ads for the governor." The pulled-back subpoena was the most flagrant example of how the commission, established with great ceremony by Mr. Cuomo in July 2013, was hobbled almost from the outset by demands from the governor's office- the governor maintains he had every right to monitor and direct the work of a commission he had created, but commissioners and investigators saw the demands as politically motivated |
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