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. …

[Behind Liberal Lines]

He’s either as crooked as they are or so stupid he’s disqualified from holding office. Either way he has to go

[iacovatx]

“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.”

I can only say that the jaw-dropping stories we hear about crazies at other universities are not limited to professorial quacks and malcontents. There is real corruption, financial mismanagement, and appalling misbehavior that occurs, too, although it is rarely publicly reported. Imagine a business that took the high performing workers and tossed them out while promoting the worst feather-bedders and incompetents. I have seen that in an American university and I am aware of what has occurred at the former SUNY IT. The system has some crippling problems.

[jmacusa]

Andrew is shocked! Shocked I tell you to find there is corruption in the New York State legislature.