I'm shocked.
Posted on 07/23/2014 8:58:05 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his top staff thwarted efforts by an investigatory commission to uncover political corruption and expose campaign finance loopholes because the panel... got too close to the governor's own politics...
Cuomo's top aide, Larry Schwartz, interfered with the commission's attempts to investigate campaign spending for a media company that the governor also used....the commission's executive director reported back to Schwartz while its staff grew increasingly suspicious and frustrated that the governor's office was meddling in the investigations.
The commission developed a list of promising targets, including a lawmaker suspected of using campaign funds to support a girlfriend in another state and pay tanning-salon bills. The panel also highlighted activities that it saw as politically odious but perfectly legal, like exploiting a loophole to bundle enormous campaign contributions.
But a three-month examination by The New York Times found that the governor's office deeply compromised the panel's work, objecting whenever the commission focused on groups with ties to Mr. Cuomo or on issues that might reflect poorly on him.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
I'm shocked.
Politicians all hate corruption until the investigators follow it into their backyards.
He’s just like his old man.
Ha ha ha. Too funny. A democrat
Commission on corruption, is corrupt.
Sounds like our ex-felon former Governor George Ryan. Part of the reason he was sent to prison to make license plates was that while he was Secretary of State, his Inspector General (the guy who is supposed to root out corruption) was the main person blocking any investigations in all of Ryan’s shenanigans.
The ACORN does not fall far from the tree.......................
They were getting tooooo close to ‘home’.........................
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