ALBANY — Despite a majority of its current members voting to find that a former top lawmaker in the state Senate forcibly kissed a staffer in 2015, the state’s ethics agency said Friday he will not face any repercussions.
That’s not because the evidence exonerated former Sen. Jeff Klein, who lost his seat in 2018. It’s because nearly half of the commission’s appointed seats are currently vacant.
Klein was accused of forcibly kissing Erica Vladimer when he was leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway group of Senate Democrats who caucused with the Republican majority for several years…