ALBANY (NY)
New York Post
June 10, 2018
By Anna Sanders
Bronx state Sen. Jeff Klein’s Democratic challenger wants Albany to make public the status of a probe into allegations the lawmaker forcibly kissed a staffer.
Alessandra Biaggi called on Republican and Democratic legislators to amend state law to allow the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) to be transparent about the status of its investigations.
Former policy analyst Erica Vladimir told the Huffington Post five months ago that she stopped working for Klein after he “shoved his tongue” down her throat at an Albany bar on March 31, 2015.
Klein denied the allegations. His lawyer said in mid-January the case was being investigated by JCOPE.
But JCOPE is barred from commenting on anything that may or may not be under investigation, or if it has completed a probe or decided not to investigate at all. Only a substantiated allegation would be made public eventually.
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