Scope: State (New York)
Branch: Executive
Severity: Green
Date occurred: April 22, 2026
The Governor of New York signed Executive Order 60, titled "Prohibiting State Employees from Profiting on Insider Information." The order addresses the use of nonpublic government information by state employees for personal financial gain.
Constitutional basis: Governor's settled supervisory authority to set conduct and ethics standards for executive-branch employees, applied in ordinary directive form.