Anyone who doubts the need for Gov. Cuomo’s ethics overhaul should consider some patently corrupt new legislation moving ahead in the Assembly.
The bills, as The Post reported Tuesday, seem tailor-made to enrich medical-malpractice attorneys and their clients (at everyone else’s expense). Yet lawmakers don’t have to disclose whether they do malpractice work or who their clients are — so the public has no idea if they personally will benefit from the bill.
How do they get away with that?
Cuomo’s reform would require greater disclosure. But lawmakers, natch, are balking; they like things just the way they are, thank you very much — i.e., secret, so as to hide confl icts of interest
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