A couple with ties to a firm that’s been awarded hundreds of millions in Medicaid transportation contracts over the years has driven more than $300,000 combined into the campaign coffers of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul, records reviewed by The Post reveal.
Critics say the donations are a textbook case of Albany’s pay-to-play culture that allows bidders and contractors to give massive campaign contributions to the governor whose agencies oversee them. By comparison, New York City law limits donations from bidders and contractors to the mayor and have business Big Apple agencies to $400.
The firm, Medical Answering Services, founded by president Russ Maxwell in 2004, was awarded eight contracts totaling $403.7 million by the state Health Department from 2011 through 2018. Four of the contracts don’t expire until next year.
Maxwell and his spouse, Morgan McDole, dropped $236,000 into Cuomo’s campaign coffers over those years.
The couple has also dumped more than $100,000 combined into the campaign coffers of Hochul, as governor and lieutenant governor under Cuomo — and the Hochul-controlled state Democratic Committee.
McDole, for instance, gave three contributions totaling $52,600 to Hochul over the past year — $22,600 on Jan. 8, 2021, $10,000 on Sept. 9, 2021 shortly after she became governor and $20,000 on April 24 of this year.
McDole donated another $20,000 to the Hochul-influenced state Democratic Party on April 27 of this year.
Meanwhile, Maxwell has donated $32,100 to Hochul since 2018 and $176,000 to Cuomo during his tenure. McDole donated another $60,000 to Cuomo.
“It’s a perfect example that shows how lax state campaign finance laws are,” said John Kaehny, director of the government watchdog group Reinvent Albany.
11 comments:
I'm shocked, stunned and lost for words!
I gotta say, the people who run that company all look pretty happy.
https://www.medanswering.com/about-mas/leadership-team/
The real corruption is with Albany, not the transportation company. They are merely playing the game that the politicians set up for them to play, and made it legal in the bargain.
I said it before, and I will say it again:
When money speaks, politicians will listen!!!
Corporations are people too!
I don't watch legacy media so I'm immune to their DNC mind mush but this is a bad.
“Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it” — George Santayana
1776 said...
And yet somehow, Kathy Clown still has a lead. If you are Asian and vote Democrat, you need your head examined. They hate you, they've victimized you by setting their criminal element upon you. The same applies to all other ethnic groups. If you value life, order, and sanity, vote the clown out. The only people who should vote Democrat are Antifa and the criminals.
The shapeshifter scarecrow is on the take. Do tell.
If Sheeple want change they will vote this clown out in November! Organize and vote these terrible Dems out!
Let me guess a Democrat.
Has She been biased since birth because of her whiteness ?
Asking for a friend...
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