Friday, May 14, 2021

14 May 2021: What Is the NY Assembly Investigating in Cuomo Impeachment Probe?

New information on Governor’s impeachment probe

The leadership of New York's Assembly has recently come under pressure to provide more information about its impeachment probe of Governor Cuomo's scandals. Some of that information came out today, where this timeline entry focuses on which scandals the Assembly's judiciary committee is actually investigating:

In addition to the sexual harassment allegations leveled at the governor, the investigation is also looking into how the administration handled nursing home data during the pandemic, and if state resources were used to publish the governor’s book.

The investigation itself was announced on March 11. So far there have been two public updates, and the governor has denied all allegations against him. Republican state lawmakers have raised concerns about how long the investigation will actually take.

While that's more information than has previously been provided, there are still many questions about the probe's focus that have yet to be addressed. The following excerpt illustrates that information shortfall:

“I’m not naive to how investigations work, but an update, or are they knocking one piece off... are they going to look at the harassment claims first and then follow up with the nursing home cover ups, or vice versa? And can we get any type of timeline?” said Republican Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay of Oswego County.

The other information that became public today is the value of the Assembly's contract with the law firm that it hired to perform the investigations, which we'll cover in an additional timeline entry.

Here's related coverage from the timeline:

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