DOT gets integrity award
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- May
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And yes, that is the same place where the former governor hired a prostitute and the FBI is investigating the Senate majority leader and the former comptroller was using a state worker as a chauffeur for his wife and two Assembly members have admitted taking bribes and stealing money and—well, you know the stories.
The Commission on Public Integrity (whose report on the Troopergate scandal is still being awaited) awarded its 8th annual Theodore Roosevelt Ethics Award to the state Department of Transportation. The commission was lauded for extensive training, consulting with the commission and having its employees file timely financial-disclosure forms.
The department received a plaque with a quote from Roosevelt, the former president and governor or New York: “We can afford to differ on the currency, the tariff and foreign policy. But we cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure.’‘
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
