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Attorney General Spitzer Has Little Interest In Ethics

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July 13, 2006

About This Editor: I am a writer. Have been writing for other sites, but expect to do most of my future work HERE! My expertise extends from the esoteric such as burning hydrogen to the unpredictability of the stock market and my writing makes me a jack of all trades and exasperated master of none. I have had some influence over national wildfire and water policy and there are hints of a change in energy policy, BUT as Samuel Goldwyn once said, "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it is written on."

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He Prefers Pelf
Here in Brooklyn, the public has just learned in the local newspapers about a corrupt Assemblywoman named Diane Gordon being indicted for demanding a bribe in the form of a free home for helping a local developer acquire a valuable piece of city owned property.
The Brooklyn District Attorney was originally looking to have Ms. Gordon leave the state legislature in return for leniency but she filed to run for re-election so he indicted her. Of course, this does not speak well for ethics in politics since Mr. Hynes, the prosecutor, was interested in keeping the matter quiet rather than air political dirty laundry publicly.

One reason being the Brooklyn District Attorney owes favors to the Brooklyn Tammany patronage machine for helping him get elected in the first place. Raising questions about how thorough the investigation of deposed Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss Clarence Norman and his cronies has been.
Former Assemblyman Norman was forced out of office when he was convicted of filing duplicate reimbursement applications for travel expenses (overbilling twice for the same expense) and for pocketing a campaign contribution here and there, but the real motivation for his removal from office was his approving the nomination of too many corrupt judges for seats on the State Supreme Court (Brooklyn, unfortunately, being a one party county). So the aforementioned District Attorney Charles Hynes was forced to prosecute a number of sitting court officials for taking bribes, misusing other people’s money and so on. He finally got tired of all the corruption and did a thorough investigation of Brooklyn Democrat boss Clarence Norman, resulting in former Assemblyman Norman’s removal from office.

While the top ethics official in New York State is Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, he has shown little if any interest in the ethics of local officials. His big legal push has been to pursue the alleged overcompensation of former New York Stock Exchange President Richard Grasso, because he wants to demonize rich executives but not crooked politicians, raising questions as to where Mr. Spitzer’s priorities are.
I further believe there is a lack of interest in using the internet to fight crime and catch common criminals because doing so is not a patronage rich enterprise as far as Albany and many other politicians are concerned.