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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on May 02, 2016, 09:22:11 AM

Title: Investigation of confidant could be a career-killer for Cuomo
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 02, 2016, 09:22:11 AM
This was highlighted on this morning's talk show program on WGY.  Warms my heart. :whistling: :yahoo:

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Investigation of confidant could be a career-killer for Cuomo

By Fredric U. Dicker

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May 2, 2016 | 12:08am

It’s a “devastating turning point” and possibly the “beginning of the end” of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 30-plus-year political career.

That’s the profound impact of US Attorney Preet Bharara’s corruption probe of Cuomo’s longtime friend and top aide Joe Percoco — who was tighter with the governor than even members of his own family, top state Democrats told The Post.

“Joe was even closer to Cuomo than [girlfriend] Sandra Lee, closer than his sisters and even his brother Chris. Joe was always there with him, for God’s sake,’’ said a prominent Democrat who has known Cuomo for years.

In a move widely seen as a pre-emptive effort to put his own “spin’’ on the federal probe, Cuomo announced late Friday that an investigation was being launched into “undisclosed conflicts of interest by some individuals which may have deceived state employees’’ involved in economic development programs.

The announcement, which came as Bharara’s probe of Percoco became public, stunned many close to Cuomo because it appeared that the governor was, as a Cuomo administration source put it, “just throwing Joe under the bus, which seemed incredible to everyone and suggested how serious all of this is.’’

I'll believe it when it happens, but I'm thinking that 2018 will usher in Rep. Chris Gibson as the new Governor of NYS.

http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/investigation-of-confidant-could-be-a-career-killer-for-cuomo/
Title: Re: Investigation of confidant could be a career-killer for Cuomo
Post by: J P Sousa on May 02, 2016, 10:40:34 AM
How many is that (Cuomo's buddies under investigation) or is this just more regurgitation of the same stuff.
Title: Re: Investigation of confidant could be a career-killer for Cuomo
Post by: Ptarmigan on May 02, 2016, 06:49:03 PM
Good!  :yahoo:
Title: Re: Investigation of confidant could be a career-killer for Cuomo
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 03, 2016, 08:45:41 AM
Rep. Gibson announced late yesterday that he's not going to run for NYS Governor. :banghead: :bawl: Instead, he's going to be a guest lecturer at Williams College in Massachusetts. :banghead: :bawl: :mad: