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Metro Focus

March 20, 2019

Investigations and Government Operations

Originally published in PBS MetroFocus

Over the last few years, the New York State Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations hasn’t done a lot of investigating. But that’s about to change as its new chair, James Skoufis, sets his sights on prescription drug pricing [and] so-called slum-lords.

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