#DivestNY NYC => NYS

line corporate board. Williams announced the appointment literally the day after the CIO left the state’s employment after leading the managing of the pension fund. Along with our allies, we launched a formal corruption complaint to the State’s ethics board. An excellent investigation from WNYC, Sludge and Capital & Main documents this issue. While the State’s ethics board typically whitewashes ethics problems, we will not drop this issue.

In 2019, we will be ramping up the campaign to get DiNapoli to #DivestNY, as this Daily News column reported. Along with our partners, we plan to push divestment legislation; hold protests; document the state’s already-large financial losses from oil and gas investments; organize large town hall meetings across the state; and shine a spotlight on the Comptroller’s ethics problems on this issue. We hope to win Comptroller DiNapoli’s commitment to divest the $200 billion state pension fund from fossil fuels this coming year.