Sunday, June 20, 2021

20 June 2021: Governor Cuomo = Sergeant Schultz?

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With much of the Cuomo scandals past the "new allegations" phase and now well into the "legal development" phase, the pace of news out of Cuomoland has slowed dramatically. Still, we're seeing references to Governor Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals pop up in interesting places, such as this aside in an opinion piece that mainly argues in favor of Eric Adams becoming the next mayor of New York City:

Scandals show Cuo’s good for ‘nothing’

“Cuomo’s Inner Circle Raised Money for Aide Who Was Convicted of Bribery.”

That’s a New York Times headline about how Gov. Cuomo’s associates and sister Madeline raised money to help Joseph Percoco, convicted of taking $300,000 in bribes from firms with business before state authorities.

Cuomo claimed he knew nothing, nothing about helping Percoco, whom he once called a brother. Earlier, he said he knew nothing, nothing about how his family got preferential COVID testing. Still earlier, he said he knew nothing, nothing about the state’s deadly order forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients.

Who knew New York elected Sgt. Schultz?

Since younger readers might not be up on who Sergeant Schultz is, here's a short video introduction featuring the 1960s-era comedy character's signature catch phrase:

Sgt. Schultz was portrayed by John Banner, who gave the catch phrase a life that has extended decades beyond his performance.

On a final note, periods of relative quiet like this in the news cycle may lead us to provide updates on Andrew M. Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals on a less-than-daily basis. To keep up with the timeline as new information is added, please do follow us by e-mail via the form in the right hand margin or track us via our RSS news feed on your preferred news reader.