FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 19, 2014

Speaker Silver Implements Recommendations of Assembly Ethics Committee in Matter Concerning Assemblymember Micah Kellner


After a second hearing again found that Assemblymember Micah Kellner engaged in sexual harassment in 2012 and 2013 in violation of the Assembly's Harassment Policy, Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced that he is immediately implementing the recommendations of the Assembly Ethics and Guidance Committee.

"I accept the recommendation of the Committee in full," said Speaker Silver in a letter of admonition and reprimand to Assemblymember Kellner. "Therefore, I hereby and again admonish and reprimand you for your conduct. You have been found to have engaged in sexual harassment in 2012 and 2013 in violation of the Assembly's Harassment Policy, in addition to and distinct from the previous findings of the Committee, upheld on appeal by Judge Levine, that you engaged in sexual harassment in 2009 and 2011."

(Two letters included in attachment.)