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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 06:07 PM Jan 2016

Cuomo Dodges Federal Corruption Indictment..... Apparently.

So says NY Times.

Personally, I'd say our gov is a verrrrrrry lucky fellow.

>>>>An inquiry by the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan into interference with the operation of an anticorruption panel and its demise has concluded there was not enough evidence to bring a prosecution.

A statement released on Monday from the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, indicated “there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime.”

The statement did not mention any of the potential targets, but Mr. Bharara’s office has been investigating Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and some of his staff for possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering since Mr. Cuomo abruptly shuttered the panel, known as the Moreland Commission, in March 2014 in exchange for the Legislature’s approving a modest package of ethics reforms.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, had no immediate response, but his counsel, Elkan Abramowitz, thanked Mr. Bharara’s office for acknowledging that no charges would be brought.


“We were always confident there was no illegality here, and we appreciate the U.S. attorney clarifying this for the public record,” Mr. Abramowitz said in a statement.

The announcement comes less than two months after Mr. Bharara’s office successfully obtained the convictions on federal corruption charges of two of the state’s most powerful lawmakers, Sheldon Silver, the former Assembly speaker, and Dean G. Skelos, the former Senate majority leader, who, along with the governor, formed a trio that largely controlled New York politics.


Mr. Bharara’s office will continue to investigate the cases left unfinished by the commission, which Mr. Cuomo created with promises of cleaning up corruption in state politics.

“We continue to have active investi>>>>>> the rest at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/nyregion/in-moreland-commission-inquiry-insufficient-evidence-to-prove-a-crime.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0

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Cuomo Dodges Federal Corruption Indictment..... Apparently. (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus Jan 2016 OP
I'm both surprised and not surprised Renew Deal Jan 2016 #1

Renew Deal

(81,801 posts)
1. I'm both surprised and not surprised
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 07:20 PM
Jan 2016

I'm surprised they said they didn't have enough evidence and I'm not surprised they chose not to prosecute. Cuomo would have been a big fish to fry.

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