A lawyer who has repeatedly caused clients to lose cases by missing court appearances and failing to file paperwork on time also leads the committee that oversees the practice of New York law — but his boss isn’t concerned.

On Wednesday, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins defended Senator Luis Sepúlveda, who also works as a private lawyer, after reporting from New York Focus, Hell Gate, and City Limits found that he has botched cases numerous times since 2017, leading to consequences for his clients, including multiple evictions.

Legal experts who spoke with New York Focus called Sepúlveda’s record “professional negligence,” and said it could lead to disbarment or lawsuits from clients.

One of the world’s largest private equity firms has bought up hundreds of apartment buildings across Brooklyn and Queens in the last few years, part of a trend that state leaders have sought to curb. As the firm, the Carlyle Group, gears up for a new buying spree, it will be fueled in part by a notable investor: the state’s own pension fund.

Political leaders have grown increasingly concerned about the rise of institutional investors in the housing market, blaming the trend for exacerbating housing costs locally and nationally — although some experts are dubious.

Each spring, Albany lawmakers decide how to spend hundreds of billions in public money in the state’s famously opaque budget process. New York’s budget is bigger than those of most countries, and outpaces that of every other state except California.

With lawmakers having already blown past the official April 1 deadline for passing the budget, the answers to these questions — and many others — are coming down to the wire.

In the Bronx, Democrats lose elections to Republicans about as often as the Yankees miss the playoffs. So why is the Bronx Democratic Party suddenly smashing fundraising records?

Over a six-month period late last year, the party’s campaign “housekeeping” account raised ​an unprecedented $812,000 in contributions​, the party’s biggest fundraising haul on record.

After years of seeing their projects rejected in New York, pipeline and power plant companies are eyeing a comeback as the state weighs a slower transition away from fossil fuels.