As Skelos heads to prison, Albany's corruption story never ends

Published May 11, 2016 This content is archived.

A front page article in the Buffalo News about corruption in Albany and the sentencing of former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos on Thursday quotes James Campbell, UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science. “There’s a sort of numbness that takes over. ‘OK, here’s ‘fill in the blank’ being prosecuted for ‘fill-in-the-blank’ crime.’ It’s sort of business as usual,” he said. “It does further cause a deterioration of the public’s respect for politicians and government, and it feeds on some stereotypes that have developed that government is intrinsically a corrupting influence.”

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