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The Andrew Cuomo scandal, explained (Compare with Rick Perry)
yahoo news ^ | 08/15/2014 | Andrew Prokop

Posted on 08/15/2014 6:06:42 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

After news of several corruption scandals involving members of New York's legislature, and the legislature's subsequent failure to pass an ethics reform bill, Cuomo announced in July 2013 that, along with the state's independently elected Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, he was establishing a 25-member commission to investigate corruption in government. The commission would be empowered to issue subpoenas, so long as its three co-chairs (two of which were appointed by Cuomo, and one by Schneiderman) all signed on. The governor's authority to establish such a commission was based on a law called the Moreland Act of 1907, so it became known as the Moreland Commission, though its official title was the Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.

"I can't 'interfere' with [the commission], because it is mine. It is controlled by me"

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1 posted on 08/15/2014 6:06:42 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

At least Gov. Cuomo paid respects to MG Harry Greene.


2 posted on 08/15/2014 6:18:31 PM PDT by 22202NOVA (Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Corruption in New York? I can’t believe it.
They have ta mmany honest Democrats to even conceive such.


3 posted on 08/15/2014 7:35:50 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Kid Shelleen

save


4 posted on 08/16/2014 9:31:17 AM PDT by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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