Enabling Legislation & Jurisdiction
Articles Regarding Commission Members & Staff
Is Albany Playing CronyVille with JCOPE?, New York Daily News (Dec. 12, 2011)
Articles and Reports Regarding JCOPE
General Articles & Reports regarding JCOPE
- Hope for JCOPE, issued by Common Cause & the NYC Bar Association (March 14, 2014)
- JCOPE Returns to Waivers, Albany Times Union (Feb. 18, 2014)
Current Board Members:
- Hon. Joseph Covelo (Appointed by Senate Majority Leader Dean L. Skelos)
- Hon. Vincent DeLorio (Appointed by Gov. Guomo)
- Hon. Renee Roth (Appointed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver)
- Paul Casteleiro (Appointed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver)
- Mitra Hormozi (Appointed by Gov. Cuomo)
- Chairman Daniel J. Horwitz (Appointed by Gov. Cuomo)
- Marvin E. Jacob (Appointed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver)
- Seymour Knox (Appointed by Gov. Cuomo)
- Gary J. Lavine
- Hon. Mary Lou Rath (Appointed by Senate Minority Leader Dean L. Skelos)
- David A. Renzi (Appointed by Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb)
- George A. Weissman (Appointed by Sen. Majority Leader Dean L. Skelos)
Executive Director
- Letizia Tagliafierro
Former Members/Personnel
- Chairwoman Janet DiFiore (Appointed by Gov. Cuomo) [Retired April 22, 2014]
- Westchester Probe could affect Cuomo, Wall Street Journal (May 29, 2012)
- Ravi Batra (Appointed by Senate Majority Leader John Sampson)
- Patrick J. Bulgaro (Appointed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver) [Resigned July 31, 2013]
- Mario Cuomo Helped Investment Firm Being Probed by Son Andrew, New York Magazine (Aug. 18, 2008)
- Budget Chief Resigns to Run Health Care Group, New York Times (May 18, 1993)
- Watchdog Groups Worry That Ethics Commission has been Hobbled, New York Times (Mar. 24, 2004)
- Ellen Yaroshefsky (Appointed by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver) (Resigned Oct. 29, 2013)
- Executive Director Ellen Biben (Resigned May 2, 2013)