Most of Mr. Cuomo's senior aides — including his secretary, counsel, director of state operations and chief of staff — will have their pay reduced 5 percent from the salaries of their predecessors in the Paterson administration.
In the tightly scheduled weeks leading up to November's U.S. presidential election, he was called on to advise Barack Obama's economic team, testify before Congress, and counsel heads of state in Argentina, France, and Botswana.
Ronald A. Labasky, general counsel of the state Association of Supervisors of Elections, had spent a frantic month putting out legal fires for county elections officials around the state, and was braced for more, had the Supreme Court allowed the count of disputed ballots to resume.
"The portfolio has a benchmark of a 15percentt return requirement," said Keith L. Johnson, chief legal counsel of the state investment board.
Ms. Deinhardt, a former general counsel of the state's Department of Labor, will draft rules to enforce the ethics code and to investigate violations.
Maureen Scannell Bateman, the former general counsel of the State Street Corporation and U.S. Trust, will review the fund business's legal and regulatory controls.
He indicated yesterday that he would fight on, uncompromisingly, in effect rejecting the counsel of the state's most important fiscal voice in Washington.
"When a doctor makes a warning, he's violating confidentiality for a certain purpose and a certain period of time," said Seth P. Stein, general counsel of the state Psychiatric Association and an author of the brief.
Robert Stern, former general counsel of the state's ethics agency, said the true test of lawmakers' intentions would be whether the stricter laws pass the entire Legislature and head to the governor for his signature or veto.
