In 2015, two of the three most powerful politicians in New York State government stood trial for corruption charges at the same time in the federal courthouse in Manhattan. The sentencings this month of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to 12 years in prison, and of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to five years in prison, have once again laid bare what has increasingly been described as Albany’s pervasive and persistent epidemic of corruption.
As The New York Times recently noted in an editorial, “Corruption remains the great, crippling defect of New York State government, tainting all that it does and fails to do.”1 This article explores this great taint of corruption on the New York State Legislature and proposes a three-part fix to reduce the incentives and opportunity for future corruption.
Albany’s Corruption Crisis
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