The Center for Public Integrity found all 50 States Corrupt, gave New York a "D"

The Center for Public Integrity has released a report detailing the risk of corruption and lack of accountability in all 50 states. If you believe that state governments are transparent, accountable, free of corruption and well- run, think again. Nearly every state received a poor grade.

About the Center for Public Integrity: The Center for Public Integrity was founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis. It is one of the country's oldest and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organizations.  Its mission: to reveal abuses of power, corruption and dereliction of duty by powerful public and private institutions in order to cause them to operate with honesty, integrity, accountability and to put the public interest first.

Rampant Corruption and Lack of Accountability

The Center for Public Integrity’s report examined accountability and ethics in each state government. States were graded on 330 separate metrics, which were grouped into 14 major categories. Overall grades are based on the average grades in the major categories, which included lobbying disclosure, political financing, internal auditing, ethics enforcement agencies and redistricting.

No state earned an A, and only five states received better than a B+. More than half the states received a D+ or worse. Scored from 1 to 100, eight states earned failing grades of 59 or below from the project.  New York received a grade of D.



Read the full Report here: When the State Anti-Corruption Committees Are Marked With Corruption and Partizanship.