Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s vindictiveness and desire to protect his office and image were evident long before the current scandals involving New York’s chief executive, The New Yorker reported Tuesday.
An investigation directed by the New York state attorney general recently determined that the Democrat governor harassed multiple current and former state government employees. Other investigations are looking into whether the governor’s office hid nursing home-related deaths during the COVID pandemic and the use of state resources as Cuomo wrote and promoted a pandemic memoir.
Danya Perry, a former federal prosecutor, witnessed Cuomo’s bullying ways long before the governor’s efforts to discredit reports that he had harassed women, The New Yorker reported.
“Every single thing I’ve seen in the past couple of months was foreshadowed,” Perry told The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow.
Perry served as chief of investigations for the Moreland Commission, which Cuomo appointed in 2013 to probe corruption in state government, political campaigns, and elections in New York.
However, when the commission’s inquiries began potentially to implicate the governor, Cuomo and his team used increasingly heavy-handed tactics, The New Yorker said.
“He did not want an investigation into his own dark-money contributions,” Perry said.
Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., who served as one of the commission’s co-chairs, echoed Perry.
“[Cuomo] was pulling back subpoenas that were gonna go to friends and supporters of his — it was just really unbelievable,” Rice said.
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However, when the commission’s inquiries began potentially to implicate the governor, Cuomo and his team used increasingly heavy-handed tactics, The New Yorker said.
“He did not want an investigation into his own dark-money contributions,” Perry said.
This shows how utterly corrupt the NYS Assembly truly is. They just look the other way. Same thing for the corrupt senate.