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him we ll just have to wait and see in any case happy preetmas eve everybody next up in the ny corruption season bill de blasio and those donors posted by reality based educator at 5 34 pm 118 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alain kaloyeros andrew cuomo buffalo billion corrupt governor corruption joseph percoco preet bharara preetmas time for jail todd howe former cuomo aide joe percoco others to face corruption charges related to andrew cuomo s economic development projects finally federal authorities plan to unseal charges against a former top aide to new york gov andrew cuomo as early as thursday in connection with an alleged bribery and kickback scheme involving the governor s signature economic development program according to people familiar with the matter in addition to the former aide joseph percoco the u s attorney s office in manhattan intends to bring public corruption charges against a number of other individuals in connection with the wide ranging investigation these people said the precise nature of the charges against mr percoco who for decades was one of mr cuomo s most senior aides and closest friends wasn t immediately clear for months mr percoco has been at the center of a probe by u s attorney preet bharara s office concerning allegations of bribery and kickbacks in connection with an economic development program known as the buffalo billion which mr cuomo has lauded as having revived the sleepy upstate economy since the investigation became public in april mr cuomo a democrat has distanced himself from mr percoco and ordered an internal review of the buffalo billion program a spokesman for mr cuomo didn t respond to a request for comment wednesday evening and the fallout for cuomo the probe and expected charges represent the most significant political crisis mr cuomo has faced since he took office in 2011 in part because they are linked to some of his signature programs and major donors but also because of the alleged involvement of mr percoco in particular for years mr percoco has been one of the governor s most trusted allies an individual so tight with the cuomo family that the governor once described him as my father s third son who sometimes i think he loved the most if anybody knows where some of the andrew cuomo administration bodies are buried it would be joe percoco mario s third son some reaction hard to overestimate this story in ny politics joe percoco cuomo s longtime top aide will face bribery charges https t co p2nc4ma7j8 josh dawsey jdawsey1 september 22 2016 who else will be indicted perhaps percoco s wife who also was being investigated for funky payments from one of the companies involved suny poly s alain kaloyeros was getting looked at as well as part of the investigation but whether he s part of today s show is uncertain i suspect if kaloyeros were going to go down today he d have been part of the leak definitely todd howe who has been cooperating with the feds in the matter to be charged the ny times reports half a dozen people are going to be charged today in all as for andrew cuomo the damage to his administration will be big though probably not fatal this is cuomo s signature economic development program that percoco and company were using as their personal cash box and cuomo mr accountability himself had no idea or so he says this was going on at the very least the political damage is that cuomo was not paying attention as those closest to him percoco and former cuomo aide now cooperating with the feds lobbyist todd howe were engaging in bribery kickback schemes and other shenanigans the ny times described the fallout for cuomo as a devastating blow to the governor s innermost circle and a repudiation of how his prized upstate economic development programs were managed according to people with knowledge of the matter there remains the possibility that percoco can be squeezed for what he knows about cuomo and all those donors the pattern has been donate to cuomo get contract favor in return though i suspect if that were going to happen there might already be indication of that in a leak in any case going to be a fun day if you ve been waiting for the cuomo economic development project bribery kickback corruption investigation season to finally kick off one final point with bharara finally making a move on percoco i wouldn t be surprised if we don t get some action on one or more of the various de blasio corruption probes in the very near future posted by reality based educator at 7 24 am 71 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels andrew cuomo bill de blasio buffalo billion corrupt governor joseph percoco lisa toscano percoco preet bharara time for jail todd howe thursday august 18 2016 cuomo approaches teacher evaluations with same illiteracy he uses for his economic development programs it s been quite the couple of weeks for governor andrew cuomo cuomo who likes to spend his days finding new ways to torture bill de blasio found himself on the end of some of his own torture in the form of state and federal audits of some of his signature economic development programs as well as a legislative hearing that laid bare the failures of another one of his signature economic development programs first came state audits conducted by comptroller thomas dinapoli which were critical of cuomo s economic development program compliance and accountability mechanisms the governor escalated yet another feud with yet another fellow democrat after an unrelated press conference in the bronx this afternoon responding to a series of unflattering summertime analyses of his signature programs cuomo bashed dinapoli s two decade tenure representing parts of nassau county in the assembly and argued that history discredited the comptroller s assessments the governor did not specifically attack any particular proposals the comptroller voted on in albany but insisted the assembly had been part of the problem and had basically abandoned upstate new york cuomo s slap at dinapoli was a reaction to the comptroller s findings earlier this month that the new york power authority which was supposed to dispense power to struggling nonprofits and entrepreneurs at discounted rates under the governor s recharge ny program had made numerous errors when assessing applicants eligibility this meant noncompliant entities got cheap electricity from the state anyway while groups that qualified for the program were barred from participating the governor appoints the power authority s entire board that audit followed the comptroller s july takedown of the empire state development corporation another cuomo controlled public private venture and its excelsior jobs program dinapoli found that the development corporation had repeatedly handed out large tax breaks to companies without obtaining the necessary documentation to corroborate their eligibility or productivity cuomo claimed dinapoli s audits were not quantifiable but were instead opinions what you re getting in an audit is that person s opinion right the governor said sometimes i agree sometimes i disagree because it is only an opinion except that the state audits weren t opinions the comptroller s audits of recharge ny and the excelsior program were in fact based on numbers and hard data his office obtained from the nypa and esdc from the businesses they worked with and on eligibility requirements cuomo s own initiatives established a dinapoli spokeswoman refused to respond to the governor s personal attacks the reports completed by our professional auditors speak loudly for themselves said jennifer freedman communications director for the comptroller nice work by the governor there to take an audit based on numbers and hard data from cuomo controlled entities like nypa and esdc and turn them into opinions eh later on cuomo tried a diversionary tactic to defend against the state audit findings facing numerous analyses showing his signature jobs programs misallocated resources and put few new yorkers to work gov andrew cuomo argued today that any such assessments are only a matter of political point of view speaking after an unrelated event in the bronx the governor defended his attacks last week on state comptroller thomas dinapoli who released unflattering audits of two cuomo programs this summer the governor again insisted that those findings were just dinapoli s opinions opinions which are open to debate given the comptroller s history as an assemblyman from long island i said these are matters where people give their opinion i have certain opinions that are my opinions i believe in marriage equality right i believe in 15 as a minimum wage you could not believe there are assemblymen who don t agree with me there are senators who don t agree with me on the minimum wage and if they write a report they re going to say my minimum wage idea was a bad idea because they disagree with it and that s fine that s democracy and assemblymen take positions during the course of their tenure and some people support minimum wage some people don t support minimum wage some people don t support economic development there are people in the assembly who say there is no economic development possible leave it to the private sector so you get opinions the governor said it s a matter of opinion on many of these issues and there s no right or wrong that s why we have elections that s why we have debates donald trump thinks one thing hillary clinton thinks another thing how any of this commentary was relevant to the observer s specific question about dinapoli a well known liberal democrat is unclear the audits the comptroller s office produced had nothing to do with gay marriage or with the state s new pay floors but with cuomo s recharge ny and excelsior programs of course none of that nonsense cuomo spewed about the minimum wage or gay marriage had anything to do with the questions about the state audits and cuomo s lame defense that they were opinions rather this nonsense was pure diversionary tactic hey look over there gay marriage minimum wage hike whee yayy cuomo not a reasoned defense of his economic development programs to the scathing audit findings and again as will bredderman at the observer shows dinapoli s audits were anything but opinion recharge ny run through the cuomo controlled new york power authority was supposed to dispense power to struggling nonprofits and entrepreneurs at discounted rates but dinapoli s auditors found nypa had made numerous errors when assessing applicants eligibility meaning noncompliant entities got cheap electricity from the state anyway while groups that qualified for the program were barred from participating the governor appoints the power authority s entire board that audit followed the comptroller s july takedown of the excelsior jobs program run through the empire state development corporation another cuomo controlled public private entity and its excelsior jobs program dinapoli discovered that the development corporation had repeatedly handed out large tax breaks to companies without obtaining the necessary documentation to corroborate their eligibility or productivity the comptroller s audits of recharge ny and the excelsior program were based on numbers and hard data his office obtained from the nypa and esdc from the businesses they worked with and on eligibility requirements cuomo s own initiatives established but hey what s some hard data and numbers taken from cuomo s own entities when you can be diverting with some nonsense about gay marriage cuomo tried a similar nonsensical defense with a federal audit this week that found new york state wasted 22 million dollars in sandy funds gov andrew cuomo slammed president barack obama s department of housing and urban development today for alleging new york mishandled 22 4 million in hurricane relief funds from washington insisting that his administration understands federal law better than obama s cuomo a democrat who headed hud during the clinton administration lashed out at an audit by obama s inspector general for the agency while addressing the press after an unrelated event in the bronx this morning ig david montoya s office found that cuomo s office of tourism and marketing did a poor job meeting the requirements of the block grant money it received in the aftermath of 2012 s hurricane sandy but the governor argued that montoya and his staff don t understand hud rules some federal person entity did an audit we believe they misread the law and misread the regulations about how the funding should be spent and so we re contesting their opinion he said boasting of his administration s response to the disaster during hurricane sandy we expended billions and billions of dollars literally in the handling of the emergency and the construction and the aftermath trying to get people to come back to the effected communities so i m very proud of what the state did so what did the federal audit find in particular montoya s auditors discovered that the state handed millions for marketing and promotions to the empire state development corporation a cuomo run public private organization and the city of long beach on long island without first obtaining an independent analysis of the costs of their respective programs it also determined the state did not get sufficiently detailed budgets from either esds or long beach on how the federal dollars would get spent state officials did not always establish and maintain financial and administrative controls to ensure efficient and effective program administration the audit report reads we attribute these conditions to state officials not placing sufficient emphasis on ensuring compliance with all procurement requirements montoya s office brushed off cuomo s criticism we believe that the audit speaks for itself period said spokesman darryl j madden throughout the audit process the state was given ample opportunity to comment on our findings and results another scathing audit this time federal but same lame defense tactic from cuomo the audit s bullshit it wasn t done right we did everything we were supposed to do etc but notice cuomo never uses any facts figures or hard data in his defense against these audits all we get are personal attacks and diversionary tactics the audits came on the heels of a legislative hearing that took another signature cuomo economic development program to task the infamous start up ny program albany gov andrew cuomo s top economic development official on wednesday bemoaned a wave of skepticism surrounding start up ny a state program that created just 408 new jobs in its first two years despite a 53 million advertising campaign over more than two hours of questioning a bipartisan group of state assembly members grilled empire state development president and ceo howard zemsky about the much debated jobs program at a hearing wednes...