MONTICELLO, NY — The ethics complaint filed against Bill Liblick by the Sullivan County Board of Ethics has been withdrawn. A press release issued by the Orseck Law Offices, who represented Liblick in the matter, said, “This complaint was brought in bad faith by those people in Sullivan County government authority, in a hamfisted attempt to harass and intimidate Mr. Liblick. While we don’t know who actually filed the charges, it is safe to guess that those who filed were aligned with the same senior legislators and county executives that Mr. Liblick has worked so tirelessly to expose.”

In response to the complaint, filed earlier, Kirk Orseck wrote, “Due process rights, such as the right to be properly noticed of charges, arise when rights to life, liberty, or property are put at risk….” Because violations of the county code of ethics could result in a $10,000 fine, Orseck wrote, “Liblick should be afforded his constitutional due process rights in this proceeding, and he should therefore be provided with full and actual notice of the charges against him.”

Liblick was accused of releasing confidential county documents. Orseck wrote that “government documents are presumptively open to the public, and therefore non-confidential, unless they fall within a few narrowly tailored exceptions.”