(Flashback) Cuomo calls on Schneiderman to resign amid bombshell accusations

nypost.com ^ | 5/7/2018 | By Joe Tacopino

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Cuomo calls on Schneiderman to resign amid bombshell accusations

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to resign after being accused of abuse by multiple women in a bombshell new report Monday.

Cuomo released a statement Monday night that said Schneiderman should step down “for the good of the office.”

“No one is above the law, including New York’s top legal officer,” Cuomo said.

“My personal opinion is that, given the damning pattern of facts and corroboration laid out in the article, I do not believe it is possible for Eric Schneiderman to continue to serve as Attorney General, and for the good of the office, he should resign.”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

From two years ago. Schneiderman must resign but Andrew will not

[Da Coyote]

Ah, the Nth confirmation (where N is so large as to have no form of infinity associated with it) of the ONLY leftist standard: The Double Standard.

[rockrr]

The best defense is a good offense. And if there’s anything Guido Cuomo is good at it is being offensive.

[BobL]

I remember us asking why they got rid of Schneiderman so quick. I suspected that there was a lot more to this person than ‘rubbing a few shoulders’ and the Dems knew it. But he got out fast, so we’ll never know.

[bigbob]

Some animals is more equal then others

[chuckee]

IMHO Cuomo would have survived the nursing home issue. But his problem as a Dem politician is that if you live by the identity politics sword, be prepared to die by the identity politics sword. His fellow Democrats in Congress and the US Senate as well as the state senate started jumping on his case and demanding resignation only when Me Too was ignited.

[petitfour]

So all these accusations against Cuomo are from the last two years? He didn’t harass his employees before?

[cgbg]

If Cuomo harassed seven women, it is a virtual certainty he harassed seven hundred women.

That is why the politicians resign—we only get to see the tip of the iceberg.

[Liz]

Schneiderman called a woman of color his "brown slave" and spit at her in the bedroom. She describes Schneiderman as “a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; a man who has staked his entire political career on being a champion for women publicly, but abuses them privately. “His hypocrisy is epic. He’s fooled so many people.” NOTE One sex artner said she let his abusive behavior go unreported b/c "he was such an important Democrat."

Dateline Jan 21, 2012---Then-Pres Obama is greeted by NYAG Eric Schneiderman as he leaves Air Force One after landing at Albany Intl Airport in upstate Colonie, NY. (Lori Van Buren / Albany Times Union)

No sooner had Obama named Schneiderman in his 2012 SOTU address to lead a mortgage abuse unit to investigate and redress the perceived wrongs committed by Wall Street in connection with the sub-prime mortgage crisis, Schneiderman fired his first shot, filing a suit alleging that several major banks and a mortgage registration service engaged in fraudulent foreclosures. Billions in settlements were handed over by Obama to leftist groups like La Raza and Acorn.

Obama didnt ask about the AG's "brown slave"?

[one guy in new jersey]

“If Cuomo harassed seven women, it is a virtual certainty he harassed seven hundred women.”

Like the number of people who call a radio show versus the total number of listeners.

[taterjay]

https://nypost.com/2021/03/08/cuomos-due-process-call-a-double-standard-critics/

NY Post article.

[Liz]

Schneiderman and Cuomo announce the 2009 Trust Act WRT the huge NY pension system---systematically looted by appointees.

[Liz]

intelligencer.comm

EXCERPT Schneiderman was viewed by liberals as the rare bright light in the dismal tea party election season of 2010, and he quickly became a nationwide progressive darling, winding up on the cover of magazines like The American Prospect. Barack Obama called out to Schneiderman (he was seated behind Michelle) at Obama’s 2012 State of the Union, and announced that the New York attorney general would lead a group investigating fraud during the subprime mortgage crisis.

Schneiderman was able to claw back billions of dollars from banks and wrongdoers, including a $13 billion settlement with JP Morgan Chase, even as some Obama administration officials feared that the New York attorney general was acting too aggressively.

But largely Schneiderman failed to live up to the examples of his predecessors. He almost immediately began a feud with Governor Andrew Cuomo, who before he had Bill de Blasio to fight with saw Schneiderman as his biggest threat. Soon after being sworn in as governor, Cuomo unveiled a new unit in the executive branch, the Department of Financial Services, and installed a top aide, Benjamin Lawsky, in the job and tasked him with investigating financial fraud. It was as if Cuomo didn’t want to leave his old job behind, and Schneiderman vented to a friend, “I have got to get this guy off my ass.”

Spitzer and Cuomo had their glory years during the George W. Bush administration, when there was a need for Democratic legal oversight. Although there were some wins, like suing Exxon for misleading the public over climate change and suing over unfair labor practices in the fast food industry, Schneiderman was largely a man without a cause for much of the Obama years, and several New York political figures told me over the last couple of years that the energy and oversight out of that office hadn’t been what it once was.

Until Trump came aboard. As much as Schneiderman was looking forward to an increased role under a President Hillary Clinton, the truth is that the prospect of a President Trump meant that at last the attorney general had a target worth taking on. The president was taking aim at environmental regulation, labor laws, the emoluments clause in the Constitution, and left behind a rash of seemingly corrupt business deals in New York. (Never mind that Schneiderman previously dragged his feet on the investigation of Trump University — something that, if it had been settled sooner, potentially could have stopped the Trump candidacy in its tracks.) Top lawyers from the private sector and from the U.S. attorney’s office came to work for him. “New York Attorney General in Battle With Trump,” the New York Times declared late last year, noting that Schneiderman had taken 100 legal or administrative actions against the administration in its first year in office. As Cynthia Nixon and Andrew Cuomo squabbled on the campaign trail, Schneiderman was in the catbird seat, the overwhelming favorite to replace Cuomo eventually in the governor’s mansion.

But now none of it will be, and Schneiderman will join the long list of disgraced New York politicians who become a national punch line —Spitzer, Anthony Weiner, Michael Grimm, David Paterson.

[KDF48]

Time to interview Schneiderman. He might enjoy a place on the prosecutor team. Maybe een probono.

[JimRed]

I never read anything with “BOMBSHELL” in the title.

[cgbg]

“Bombshell” usually means World War I unexploded ordinance.

;-)