Posted on 08/20/2018 10:22:05 AM PDT by reaganaut1
ALBANY — In January 2016, as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was preparing his annual State of the State address, some high-placed state officials knew they had a problem.
A pair of business executives — partners in multimillion-dollar, private-public partnership deals with the state — were on their way to Albany, anticipating that Mr. Cuomo was going to announce their projects in his speech. But Mr. Cuomo had decided against doing so, worrying the executives.
“We need to assure these guys their deals are solid,” Christopher Walsh, an associate vice president at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, wrote in an email to several top Cuomo administration officials. “We cannot string these guys along any longer. Please.”
One person in that email chain was not a government official, but rather a high-profile lobbyist by the name of Todd R. Howe, a former aide of Mr. Cuomo’s who was said to still have the administration’s ear. Indeed, Mr. Howe made the problem go away, suggesting that the executives be given access to a reception at the Executive Mansion, where the governor was staying that week.
“Could we get the two C.E.O.s invited to the mansion?” Mr. Howe wrote in an email to Jim Malatras, then the director of state operations, one of the top positions in state government. “Given we asked them to travel in to attend.”
Two minutes later, Mr. Malatras said “O.K.,” and instructed his deputy to set up the visit.
Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat seeking a third term in November, has repeatedly downplayed his relationship with Mr. Howe, who became a key figure in a pair of federal corruption cases after pleading guilty and reaching a cooperation deal with prosecutors.
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I read this that the Crazy Left is going to try and force him out to replace him with someone farther to the left.
the old democratic guard is not socialist enough for the young upstarts.
viva la revolucion.
Cuomo is a NY Democrat crook.....pretty sure that’s expected by Dems and applauded.
It’s the young Bolsheviks pushing out the old Mensheviks.
Ping.
Thought you were making a feminazi/GLBT-whatever joke.
A "minority" splinter group, Bolsheviks being the larger part.
“the old democratic guard is not socialist enough for the young upstarts.
viva la revolucion.”
Yes. Even though I’m a Virginia resident, I’m voting for the red-headed lesbian socialist for governor of New York!
Cuomo will pull a McGreevy and announce he is gay.
Thanks reaganaut1. This is the first of a number of scandals that will feed the silly bastard into a virtual woodchipper. And we will get to watch as he helps with more of that self-destructive mouth.
Wow - from the NYSlimes no less.....
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