ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo’s anti-corruption commission is investigating longtime Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind and the thousands of dollars Maimonides Medical Center paid to a company he owns.
Maimonides received a subpoena and is cooperating with the Moreland Commission, hospital spokeswoman Eileen Tynion said Tuesday.
The hospital revealed in July that it had paid $65,000 to Hikind’s ad company over the past year for advertising on the assemblyman’s weekly radio show, “The Dov Hikind Show.”
Hikind initially failed to disclose any income from the company but later amended his financial statements after inquiries from the online business publication Crain’s. In his 2012 form, he disclosed income of up to $20,000 from the company.
Hikind could not be reached for comment. News of the Moreland Commission’s subpoena was first reported by Crain’s Tuesday evening.
Moreland Commission Co-Chairman William Fitzpatrick, following a public hearing Tuesday night, declined to comment on the panel’s investigation into Hikind, but added: “I am not going to deny the existence of that subpoena.”
Fitzpatrick, meanwhile, said he hoped to “tone the rhetoric down a little bit” in the dispute over the Legislature’s refusal to turn over information about their outside income, but he stressed “we’re going to get that information one way or the other. I can assure you of that.”
