Lawyers fighting Hochul’s insurance reforms falsely claim support from Syracuse bishop A Black clergy leader in Syracuse says his name was wrongly used on a letter opposing the proposals.

Kathy Hochul’ s proposed car insurance reforms lists Bishop H. Bernard Alex of Syracuse as the first of 16 prominent co-signers from across the state. Alex, of Victory Temple Fellowship Church in Syracuse, says there’ s just one problem: He never signed the letter. A news story about the letter is posted on the website of the New York Trial Lawyers Association, the main…