By Staff Reporter (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Apr 09, 2013 01:50 PM EDT
Tags corruption
New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday proposed three new laws aimed at stopping corruption by elected officials, after federal prosecutors brought two criminal cases against elected officials in the state last week.
The so-called Public Trust Act would create laws to punish bribery, scheming to corrupt the government and failure to report corruption, he told a joint news conference with several chief prosecutors from the New York City area.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
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