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Report: Cuomo contributor had mob ties
The Associated Press ^
| Thursday, August 15, 2002
Posted on 08/15/2002 5:31:33 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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ALBANY -- Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo last year accepted $44,500 in campaign contributions from a movie producer accused of being a mob associate, according to a published report.
Julius Nasso, producer of several Steven Seagal action films, his brother Vincent and their businesses wrote 11 checks to Cuomo's campaign, the New York Daily News reported in its Wednesday's editions.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2001; 2016; 2016election; andrewcuomo; cuomo; election2016; juliusnasso; mafia; mob; nasso; newyork; sleaze; stevenseagal; vincentnasso
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Shocked. Yes, shocked I am.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I am especially shocked because Andrew's father, Mario, once proclaimed there is no such thing as the Mafia.
;-)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Hillary! strikes again!
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
You mean Democraps are contributiong to Cumomo? They are the new mafia.
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posted on
08/15/2002 5:49:05 AM PDT
by
Texbob
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Wasn't his ties known back in 1991 and seen as a vulnerability against Bush?
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posted on
08/15/2002 5:51:34 AM PDT
by
Bogey78O
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Even putting this aside Cuomo has run a remarkably clumsy campaign. I live Upstate and there is virtually no evidence here that he is even running for governor.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
When the Javits Center was going up in NYC at the beginning of Mario Cuomo's first term as Governor, there was a mob-related scandal concerning inferior building materials for the roof structure. During a television interview on the street in front of the new building, Gov Cuomo said in the best mob-mouthpiece tradition, and I quote, "I don't believe there is such a thing as a 'Mafia'".
That's all you need to know about the Cuomos and the mob.
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posted on
08/15/2002 6:26:27 AM PDT
by
beckett
To: Behind Liberal Lines
When Papa Mario was still governor of New York and was being touted as presidential material, I asked a friend who had worked in NY State government what she thought of his chances. She told me that there was no way Cuomo could gain higher office as his deep ties to the mob would be immediately exposed in the national press. It was apparently very common knowledge in Albany that Cuomo was as bent as they come.
Regarding Baby Andy, this direct tie-in with La Cosa Nostra funds should be no surprise.
Regarding my friend's prediction about Mario, after what we have seen the press allow a pair of white trash thugs from Arkansas get away with for ten years, I have no faith that they would in any way expose the Cuomo family's ties to organized crime. We were just plain damn lucky that men like Reagan and Pataki were able to dissuade and defeat the pater of that criminal familia.
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posted on
08/15/2002 6:35:14 AM PDT
by
katana
To: jalisco555
Even putting this aside Cuomo has run a remarkably clumsy campaign. I live Upstate and there is virtually no evidence here that he is even running for governor. I would attribute that to the fact that we are still in primary season and he is working on the democrat core located in NYC.
I also suspect he is sitting back and letting his 'independant' stooge Golisano try to soften Pataki up with his 'the upstate economy sucks' commericials.
I have seen a few Cuomo commericials with a similar theme up here in Rochester and Syracuse, however.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I would attribute that to the fact that we are still in primary season and he is working on the democrat core located in NYC. I also suspect he is sitting back and letting his 'independant' stooge Golisano try to soften Pataki up with his 'the upstate economy sucks' commericials.
I have seen a few Cuomo commericials with a similar theme up here in Rochester and Syracuse, however.
I suspect you're right about his thinking but the general election campaign is very compressed due to the late primary. I often drive by McCall's Syracuse HQ but I don't know if Cuomo even has one here. I've seen several cars with McCall bumper stickers but none with Cuomo's. Andy would have to make a big push quickly Upstate if he has any hope of eating into Pataki's big advantage here, which he will have to do in order to win.
As for Golisano, I think he will be a non-issue, just as he was in '94 and '98. Vanity campaigns tend to go nowhere.
To: jalisco555
Andy would have to make a big push quickly Upstate if he has any hope of eating into Pataki's big advantage here, which he will have to do in order to win. A new poll today shows he shouldn't even worry about Pataki, because he'll lose to McCall.
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posted on
08/15/2002 7:00:13 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Behind Liberal Lines; All
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posted on
08/15/2002 7:03:57 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: 1Old Pro
A new poll today shows he shouldn't even worry about Pataki, because he'll lose to McCall. Well, McCall is marginally less awful than Cuomo so I guess this is good news.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
GASP!
I am shocked too, since to RATS a MOB is a couple of Preppy Pubbys in three piece suits!!!!!
To: InvisibleChurch
Hillary! strikes again! Exactly. Hillary! has been handed a bunch of lemons, and has decided to make lemonade. It is clear to all than ANDREW, even with massive voter fraud and ballot box stuffing, is a lost cause. You can steal elections, but not when your guy is running that far behind. So it is clear to Hillary! that ANDREW is going to lose.
So how does Hillary! avoid the stench of being associated with such a loser? Well, if a story were to reach the press that he was mixed up with the mob, then his loss could be chalked up to his own failings and things that were really beyond Hillary!'s control. So it's not really a repudiation of Hillary!ism when he loses.
But would Hillary! be so devoid of morals that she would stab a loyal supporter in the back just to avoid personal embarrassment? Of course she is!
And then, after the primary, ANDREW can pull his father's patented "Your pointing out the obvious and manifest fact that I am tied to organized crime is nothing but a ethnic slur" move, and The New York Times will grant him absolution to go and sin no more.
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posted on
08/15/2002 8:21:40 AM PDT
by
gridlock
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Say it ain't so .. Andy has mob ties
I'm SHOCKED ...
BTW .. I don't think Hilda is behind this .. Andy is part of The Party Of Bill Clinton .. besides he's not running for President
As a Gov he'll help push Hilda's agenda when running in 2004
Why do you think the Clinton Goons are running for office all over the country ...
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posted on
08/15/2002 9:00:47 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Someone must have made Andy boy an offer he couldn't refuse.
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08/15/2002 9:17:43 AM PDT
by
jpl
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Now I'm not surprised since Andrew Cuomo is married to Kerry Kennedy, one of the notorious Kennedy clan who have always had mob ties dating back to old Joe Kennedy, former ambassador. Old Joe made his millions illegally running booze during Prohibition. He later tried to turn legitimate and disconnect himself with mob ties when sonny Johnny got the presidency. However, old Joe, Johnny and Bobby forgot one primary rule. Once involved with the mob you don't disconnect.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Cuomo contributor had mob ties Well, there goes all my idealistic visions.
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