New York governor: Corruption allegations 'reprehensible'

Associated Press ^ | Sep 23, 2016 5:15 PM EDT | David Klepper and Carolyn Thompson

[Olog-hai]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, addressing a scandal that has rocked his administration and its economic development initiatives, said Friday that while he finds the corruption allegations “reprehensible” and disappointing, they won’t derail efforts to revitalize the upstate economy.

The Democrat addressed the corruption allegations against former aide and friend Joe Percoco and seven others head on during a speech in Buffalo. He said afterward he knew nothing about the allegations in advance. […]

Court papers allege Percoco took more than $315,000 in bribes from 2012 through 2016 from Syracuse-based COR Development, a construction and development firm, and from Braintree-Massachusetts-based Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company looking to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley. …

[Ann Archy]

Cuomos have always been CORRUPT....they are DEMOCRATS!!!!

Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!

[ronnie raygun]

revitalize the upstate economy, yeah right the guy who cries foul is the guy who creates the corruption but will let the underlings take the fall for him when the shtf

[jessduntno]

Hizzoner is deplorable.

[EagleUSA]

“..Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!!..”

Very true. The poetry is excellent!! Good job.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Reprehensible, yeah, that is a good description of Cuomo.

Is Sing-Sing still open?

[Mjreagan]

A denouncement this strong is usually an admission of guilt

[Hojczyk]

He banned fracking so the oil companies went to Ohio and Pennsylvania

[Blood of Tyrants]

Note that he said the ALLEGATIONS were reprehensible, not the corruption itself.

[Olog-hai]

It is. There are plans to turn the original cell block from 1826 into a museum, too.

[Ann Archy]

Thanks....I put it on every damn thread I can find!

[Olog-hai]

Yes. How dare anyone allege something like the truth.

[mkmensinger]

It’s simply reprehensible (sung to Simply Irresistible).

[Lurkinanloomin]

My dad drove us past there on our way to visit my grandparents when I was a kid in the 1960’s.
Intimidating place.

Perfect for Cuomo.

[Bruce Kurtz]

SUNY Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros was also involved. He was supposed to be the “savior” for the Utica/Rome area, by building nana tech bldgs. at what used to be SUNY/IT.

[fhayek]

I was looking for a story on this to post, but you saved me the trouble. Look, New York State politicians have raised corruption to an art form. A few years ago, the state was run by a proverbial three men in a room. The governor, the head of the state assembly and the head of the state senate made all of the decisions, and their colleagues in the legislature were expected, no commanded, to rubber stamp it. The three men in question were Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos (a republican, by the way), and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Together, they carved up the state.

But, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,Preet Bharara appointed by Barack Obama, no less, has become one of my new heroes. He has sought, and successfully taken out Skelos and Silver. Now he has set his sights on Cuomo. He has gone after Cuomo cronies, but everyone here in New York understands that Cuomo is the true target. Bharara (who was born in India), seems to take public corruption seriously.

[headstamp 2]

[they won’t derail efforts to revitalize the upstate economy. ]

Cueball already did this when he permanently banned fracking.

[Sooth2222]

"He said afterward he knew nothing about the allegations in advance. […] "

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Cuomos have always been CORRUPT....they are DEMOCRATS!!!!”

He should support Trump. That will screw Clinton and Deblahblah over big time.

[PTBAA]

But he’s spending the money he’s stealing, doesn’t that revitalize the economy?