Andrew Cuomo Investigated for Corruption in Blocking Investigations Into Corruption
26th July 2014
For years — since before he was NY State’s governor — we’ve raised questions about Andrew Cuomo’s activities. When he was Attorney General, he often used that position to grandstand around various issues that sounded good politically, but were real world disasters. He browbeat ISPs into policing the internet, when they had no legal obligation to, with bogus threats of lawsuits — even pushing them to install spyware to snoop on everyone’s traffic. He was among the leaders of the group of Attorneys General who wanted to blame high-profile internet companies for the way consumers used them, and he tried to broker a “3 strikes” system to kick file sharers offline. Since becoming governor, he’s been embroiled in a bunch of scandals, including having staffers use private email accounts to hide their work from Freedom of Information laws.
Now, however, things are heating up. The NY Times has reported that Cuomo’s greatly hyped “corruption commission” appeared to be nothing more than a front group for Cuomo himself. That is, he seemed fine with it investigating “corruption” of others, but if it came anywhere near him or his friends, Cuomo’s people ordered the commission to back away — and they did.
Yet Another Corrupt Democrat Politician. Not really news, but a useful reminder.