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New York once had an independent counsel to enforce campaign finance laws. But there's been scant oversight since the watchdog's powers were reduced, political and good-government leaders say.
The Republican co-chairman of the Board of Elections also questioned New York’s top election enforcement official about why he seemed disinterested in any inquiry pursuing the source of the leak.
State Board of Elections enforcement counsel Michael L. Johnson charged that Senate Republicans abused their housekeeping account in the lead-up to the 2016 election