The state Commission on Public Integrity revealed yesterday that expenditures to lobby state government and the Legislature in 2008 and 2009 were significantly higher than the commission had initially reported.
The agency blamed a computer error on a vendor used by the commission to track lobbying fees and expenses. Overall lobbying expenditures reported as $173.9 million for 2008 were actually $197.7 million, while 2009 expenses originally placed at $167.8 million were, in reality, $197.8 million, the commission said. The new totals of $197.7 million and $197.8 million, respectively, made 2008 and 2009 the highest-spending years on record for lobbyists in Albany, commission spokesman Walter C. Ayres said yesterday. He said the reported total for 2007—$171 million—was correct.
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