EXCLUSIVE: Bronx DA, a member of Cuomo’s corruption commission, did not report donors during run for re-election

Is the Moreland commission going to investigate Sheldon Silver? Of course not. The commission is composed of criminal corrupt individuals. Five of the 25 people Cuomo appointed to the Moreland Commission "didn't follow state election law when filing their own campaign finance disclosure forms."

Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson, a member of Gov. Cuomo’s Moreland Commission — which focuses on the influence of campaign contributions on government and compliance with election and lobbying laws — failed to file three required disclosure statements during his 2007 run for re-election. A representative for Johnson called it a ‘regrettable oversight.’

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Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson, a member of Gov. Cuomo’s investigative commission, didn’t file disclosure papers during a 2007 run. His representative Steven Reed called the DA’s failure to file the reports ‘a regrettable oversight because there was no active fund-raising during that period.

ALBANY — If the new investigative commission Gov. Cuomo charged this week with rooting out Albany corruption wants to find examples of dysfunction in the state’s campaign finance system, it doesn’t need to look beyond its own members.

A Daily News review of the 25 commission members found that five of them didn’t follow state election law when filing their own campaign finance disclosure forms, records show.

Most broke only minor rules like improperly omitting addresses for donors or vendors or failing to itemize campaign spending. But one commission member — Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson — completely skipped out on filing three required disclosure statements during his 2007 reelection run.

Cuomo’s anti-corruption Moreland Act commission is composed of 10 sitting district attorneys and an ex-U.S. attorney.

Cuomo’s tough anti-corruption Moreland Act commission — composed of 10 sitting district attorneys and an ex-U.S. attorney forming what Cuomo called “a law enforcement all-star team” — is set to focus on the influence of campaign contributions on government and compliance with election and lobbying laws. It will also recommend changes to state law.

Some state legislators have expressed fear the commission could go on a political witch hunt, turning unintentional minor infractions of the kind panel members have committed into scandal.

Bill Mahoney from New York Public Interest Research Group, a government watchdog, said the revelations show how deeply flawed the state’s campaign finance system is.

“These commissioners’ experiences give them first-hand knowledge of how the state board doesn’t even alert candidates to easily correctable problems,” Mahoney said. “Step one of any reforms they propose must be the creation of a smarter and stronger enforcement entity.”

Johnson rep Steven Reed called the DA’s failure to file the reports in 2007 “a regrettable oversight because there was no active fund-raising during that period.”

Johnson did not have a primary and was running unopposed in the general election. Reed also said that “the campaign is performing due diligence to ascertain why there was missing information on a handful of contributions from 2011.”