Governor Paterson Accused of Breaking Ethics Laws

As if things could not get any worse for David Paterson – well things have.

The Commission on Public Integrity has informed Paterson there is reasonable cause to believe he violated the public officers law last year when he solicited and accepted tickets to the first game of the 2009 World Series at Yankees Stadium.

Worse, the Commission on Public Integrity also found that there is reasonable cause to believe that the governor lied under oath about the matter. This finding indicates that reasonable cause exists to pursue perjury charges against David Paterson.

First, David Paterson engages in a GROSS ABUSE of office by covering up the violent assault conducted by Mr. Dave Johnson, his top aide, upon Mrs. Sherr-una Booker and UNLAWFULLY intervenes to protect Mr. Johnson from accusations of domestic violence by ordering the state police to deter Mr. Booker from going to court.

Now we have ethics violations, and lying under oath – PERJURY.

Is David Paterson for real?

This UN-ELECTED GOV and all the unqualified, incompetent friends and gal pals - - David Johnson, Clammie Harris, Michael Jones-Bey, Gabrielle Turner, Indira Noel, Harry Corbitt – he has placed in jobs need to be cleaned out…GET HIM AND THEM OUT NOW.

The more and more I read of the transgressions by David Paterson and his staff – lying under oath/perjury, the cover-ups, obstruction of justice, ethics violations, blatant lies - the more and more I wish Eliot Spitzer would have just read “The Democratic Conference: Organizational and Operational Structure Report”.

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM110_demreportfinal.html

This scathing report indicated that Paterson’s New York State Senate Minority office, headed by the highly inept Michael Jones-Bey, was completely dysfunctional. The unqualified and disinterested Mr. Jones-Bey, a childhood friend of Paterson, who is now incredulously Director of Division of Minority & Women Owned Business Development (DMWBD) at New York State’s Empire State Development Corporation, was reported to be more interested in partying and boozing up with staff than working.

Looks like Mr. Jones-Bey learned his dysfunctional ways from his boss.

David Paterson needs to RESIGN NOW and bring his CRONIES with him

Thanks for the post, Jane Doe. If David Paterson has done all the things he's accused of doing, then I agree, he should probably step down. It's completely ridiculous.

I would like to know what does anyone expect from a country which started out with shameful ethics and morals? i.e. all men are created equal, yet we had slaves. To this day, the life of a Black person is not worth the life of an animal. This was astutely observed by T.R.M. Howard, an unlikely civil rights hero who said after the acquittal of the murderers of Emmet Till, a 14 year old Black youth, "a white man was less likely to suffer a penalty for such a crime than for "killing deer out of season." Well, today we are visited once again by this type of atrocity via the case of Sean Bell, where no evidence was found all the way on the federal level, despite his death, despite the survivors of this vicious attack walking around with bullets in their body. However, Michael Vick's dog fights were considered more important! What ever actions Patterson has done, and believe me I live in Harlem and do not defend him on any level, pale in comparison to his contemporaries. In any event, the underlying movement against him is undoubtedly due to the demise of Senator Bruno, a republican. Once again, the politicians are getting embroiled in petty political bull while the people suffer. Talk about Patterson's problems is an unneeded diversion from real news.