Ethics in Albany remains elusive
By Ali Hibbs Albany, N.Y. — When the Metropolitan Transit Authority Chairman and CEO Joe Lhota resigned last fall, leaving behind an intransigent subway crisis, he and Gov. Andrew Cuomo led the public to believe that Lhota had successfully served his limited purpose at the agency. But the resignation letter Lhota sent last fall to the governor — by whom he was appointed — tells a profoundly different