Daily News Reports That Andrew Cuomo Has "Lawyered Up"
The Moreland disclosures just don't stop these days - here's another big one, courtesy of Ken Lovett at the Daily News: ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo has lawyered up as the scandal over the handling of his anti-corruption commission has grown, the Daily News has learned. Cuomo hired prominent white collar criminal defense lawyer Elkan Abramowitz in May to represent the governor’s office, sources told The Ne
Everyone Hates Andrew
That's the takeaway from Maggie Haberman's Politico story on Andrew Cuomo:As of mid-Thursday afternoon, no Democrats in the state had come forward with statements backing the governor, and party operatives were loath to discuss his case publicly. Many pols in his party have existed in fear of Cuomo since he won a race for state attorney general in 2006, outlived Eliot Spitzer politically and becam
The Sounds Of Silence In Albany
A comment at the NY Times: Consider the deafening silence from our state legislators over this affair verses the fire storm in New Jersey when Gov. Christie was involved. When the Moreland group was decommissioned, a great sigh of relief was audible through the halls of the Legislative Office Building. Cuomo is being called on his behavior and Democrats have to wake up to the fact that they have a
It's Always The Cover-Up
Blake Zeff on Twitter:Reminder: It's always the cover-up http://t.co/P4D1Dn3zKw— Blake Zeff (@blakezeff) July 31, 2014Stephen Gillers in The Nation writes in an article entitled "Andrew Cuomo's Watergate?" that up until now, he didn't see much for US Attorney Preet Bharara to get Cuomo on, but after Cuomo's shenanigans this week stage-managing his defense, he thinks Cuomo gave Preet an o
An Ominous Warning For Governor Cuomo
Mike Allen on The Morning Joe Show:This is turning into a potentially defining episode for Governor Cuomo, who is of course up for re-election in November and is expected to easily be re-elected. But through all this bad press throughout the ethics commission, this bombshell story last week about how the governor's office had been said to have interfered, the trillion dollar question had been, wha
Cuomo Tries To Turn A Corner, Preet Says Not So Fast
Last night around 9:30 PM, Reuters posed the following story:Exclusive: Cuomo intervened in BNP deal to get $1 billion more for NY state fund(Reuters) - Only days before U.S. authorities reached a landmark $8.97 billion settlement with BNP Paribas over the bank’s dealings with countries subject to U.S. sanctions, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo intervened to ensure the state government got a much b
US Attorney Warns Governor Cuomo Over Witness Tampering, Obstruction Of Justice Charges
The battle between US Attorney Preet Bharara and Governor Andrew Cuomo over the Moreland mess just got ratcheted up some more:In an escalation of the confrontation between the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the governor’s cancellation of his own anticorruption commission, Mr. Bharara has threatened to investigate the Cuomo administration for possi
7-30-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Here's Comes The "Health Care Savings" From City WorkersFrom the NY Times:When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his first labor agreements with New York City unions this spring, he was sharply criticized for granting long-awaited wage increases in exchange for promises of unspecified though sizable savings on health care expenses.Now, some of the specifics are coming