{"id":72049,"date":"2021-07-03T14:02:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=72049"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:17:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:17:51","slug":"is-gov-cuomo-being-sent-through-the-gauntlet-so-he-can-be-coerced-to-maintain-the-covid-tyranny-statewide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=72049","title":{"rendered":"Is Gov. Cuomo being sent through the gauntlet so he can be coerced to maintain the Covid tyranny statewide?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A whole lot of winking and nodding at
\nAlbany\u2019s impeachment \u2018probe\u2019 of Cuomo<\/h1>\n

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Despite various probes of his numerous scandals, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threw a fundraising shindig last Tuesday.Don Pollard<\/span><\/div>\n
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By Post Editorial Board<\/p>\n

Lawmakers in Albany, the feds and the state attorney general are all probing Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s numerous scandals, but it looks more like a whole lot of winking and nodding going on.<\/p>\n

Consider:\u00a0A shindig the gov threw<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday, to raise funds for a possible fourth-term bid, drew more than 170 labor bosses, CEOs and lobbyists \u2014 anyone looking for political favors, which Cuomo was surely eager to sell.<\/p>\n

Maybe these bribers \u2014 er, donors \u2014 are hedging their bets. Or maybe they suspect the fix is in, and Cuomo will easily skate through impeachment, giving him a decent shot at winning reelection in 2022. Why else plunk down a cool\u00a010 grand a head<\/em>?<\/p>\n

(And never mind the latest Siena poll finding that 62 percent of New Yorkers\u00a0don\u2019t think he should even run<\/a>\u00a0next year.)<\/p>\n

Speaker Carl Heastie, whose chamber is empowered to launch impeachment proceedings,\u00a0has been playing snail<\/a>, dragging out his \u201cinvestigation\u201d and blocking efforts to remove the gov any time soon. Assemblymembers took until Wednesday just to\u00a0decide<\/em>\u00a0to issue subpoenas, and the law firm they hired for their probe \u2014 Davis, Polk & Wardwell \u2014 has mysteriously declined to interview state troopers who\u2019ve guarded Cuomo,\u00a0the Times Union reports.<\/a><\/p>\n

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That firm, by the way, has ties to Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, who got her job thanks to Cuomo and who, along with other top judges (all likewise named by the gov), would help decide on his impeachment. (Sweet arrangement, no?)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s outrageous. Cuomo ordered nursing homes to accept COVID-infectious patients, then actively covered up the number of deaths in those facilities. Survivors of the dead want answers \u2014 and justice. So, too, do the multiple women alleging he sexually harassed them.<\/p>\n

And all New Yorkers should be livid over Cuomo\u2019s use of state workers to help write and promote his book,\u00a0which earned him $5.1 million<\/a>, among assorted other wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Yet the Assembly seems \u201cmore focused on buying time for the governor\u201d than \u201cholding him accountable,\u201d fumes Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt. He\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Heastie & Co. need to quit stalling, finish their \u201cprobes\u201d and move ahead with impeachment\u00a0now<\/em>. If they won\u2019t, voters should hold\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>accountable.<\/p>\n

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