Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill that will automatically strip public officials of their jobs if they’re convicted of federal felonies.
, who were both convicted in separate federal corruption cases.
“It just struck me that this could create some real problems down the line for taxpayers,” Gaughran said Monday. Assemblyman John McDonald III, the bill’s co-sponsor, said crooked politicians could use the extra time in office to abuse their powers.The bill’s other co-sponsor, Assemblyman John McDonald III , said the time between conviction and sentencing in federal court offered the opportunity for a crooked pol to abuse his or her powers before losing them.
“One can only let their mind wander what could happen when an elected official who had that gap, what havoc could they have enforced in their community?” he said. McDonald, who was the mayor of upstate Cohoes from 1999 to 2012, said that experience meant “I can think of a few situations — particularly simple things in regards to civil service lists and taking care of people on the way out the door.”
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