The Cuomo administration claimed last year there were no records of its contacts with an anti-corruption panel involving the Real Estate Board of New York — just three months after a top gubernatorial aide ordered the panel not to issue subpoenas to the influential real-estate group.
The administration’s misleading account was made in writing to America Rising, a conservative PAC that had filed a Freedom of Information Law request in October for “any and all” communications between Cuomo staffers and the Moreland Commission panel about REBNY.
Just two months later, the answer came back that America Rising was wasting its time.
“Please be advised that the New York State Executive Chamber has conducted a diligent search but does not possess records responsive to your request,” Cuomo’s records officer, George Stiefel III, wrote in a response dated Nov. 19.
Actually, there were extensive contacts between the commission and Cuomo aide Larry Schwartz in August, according to an article in The New York Times last week.
Members of REBNY, who have donated $4 million to Gov. Cuomo since 2010, eventually turned over documents sought by the panel voluntarily.
Tim Miller, executive director of America Rising, said he was duped.
“This official correspondence from the governor’s office was a lie, either explicitly or by means of trying to find a clever way out of having to reveal damaging documents,” he told The Post.
16 comments:
How do you spell "Scumbag from Queens"?
C-U-O-M-O.
It's time to vote this career politician out of office. What a bunch of useless politicians these sheeple keep electing.
Make no mistake about it: The Times will endorse him for re-election comes November, no matter what else they'll print about him. Could you imagine the Times endorsing instead a conservative politician?
The AG must get this guy on the hot coals. Cuomo needs to resign!
Koch was right!
Hang him by his tiny Italian balls.
"America Rising" a gop PAC. Right. Really credible.
Increasingly the politicians ignore YOUR complaints and concerns that doesn't fit with THEIR plans (or more to the point, THEIR campaign donors), and spends YOUR taxes to populate THEIR photo ops that pushes THEIR agenda with people that toe THEIR line.
Anon No. 2:
I could also se a non-endorsement or an endorsement that is damning by faint praise.
"Koch was right!"
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Are you intimating that Cuomo the Younger who was running Cuomo the Elder's gubernatorial campaign had a hand in that "Vote for Cuomo not the Homo" bizniz?
"America Rising" a gop PAC. Right. Really credible.
If it's in writing, what is not credible? FOIL requests are supposed to be honored regardless of party affiliation.
This photo of Cuomo has him looking run down and disheveled, compared to several from a few days ago. Check it out.
The Governor's hard drive broke and all the e-mails were lost. Worked for the IRS.
"Are you intimating that Cuomo the Younger who was running Cuomo the Elder's gubernatorial campaign had a hand in that 'Vote for Cuomo not the Homo' bizniz?
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I stand corrected: that "brilliant" sophomoric political statement "Vote for Cuomo Not the Homo" came out of the Cuomo camp during the 1977 mayoralty campaign. In any event, Cuomo the Younger ran it.
And the Cuomos want you to forget that. Just like the Younger's causing the banking crisis as HUD Secretary.
I believe the line "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo" was written by Michael Dowd who worked for Andrew Cuomo. I've heard that in the past, can't say for certain.
I do know for a fact that Dowd admitted hiring a private investigator to look into Koch's sex life at the time.
Dowd was a crook who paid brides to get parking contracts in the Donald Manes scandal.
He was disbarred (rightly so) and who decided that he ought to be pardoned so that eh could practice law again? Mario Cuomo.
Did Cuomo weep for other disbarred lawyers who were crooks?
Queens is a cesspool.
"And the Cuomos want you to forget that. Just like the Younger's causing the banking crisis as HUD Secretary."
And you will forget these because you are schmucks who live in Queens.
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