“The New York court system’s Ethics Commission has refused to publicly release all judges’ annual financial disclosures, which safeguard against conflicts of interest, corruption and ethics lapses.”
“It obviously makes no sense that the leaders of an entire branch of government should be so secretive about what are, by definition, public disclosures,” said New York state Sen. Michael Gianaris, who has introduced a bill to mandate that all judicial disclosures be posted publicly, as lawmakers’ are.
