3 July 2021: Editorial - NY Pols Should Stop Stalling Cuomo Impeachment

Editorial - Stop the stalling in the Cuomo investigations

This editorial observes a lot of lackluster activity by NY officials who, on paper, have oversight authority to impose sanctions on Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Starting with the NY Assembly's 'sham' impeachment probe:

For example, this week, the state Assembly’s Judiciary Committee (led by Democrats like Cuomo) met with the independent counsel conducting the Legislature’s investigation into Cuomo and voted unanimously to begin issuing subpoenas for witness testimony.

Begin issuing subpoenas? The Assembly’s investigation began in March. Yet now they’re only now beginning to issue subpoenas, a power they had all this time?

What’s taken so long, and how long will it extend the investigation to compel these witnesses to testify?

The editors also reference the curious lack of action from the Joint Committee on Public Ethics (JCOPE), New York's purported official ethics watchdog institution:

Also this week, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics voted behind closed doors not to seek a criminal investigation into whether someone from the ethics committee leaked confidential information to Cuomo about a probe it was undertaking.

The body needed eight votes to conduct the investigation, but got only six.

Four of the panelists appointed by Cuomo voted against the criminal investigation, according to the Times Union, and a fifth abstained.

How convenient that the governor was spared yet another criminal investigation.

If nothing else, Andrew M. Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals are helping to expose the depth of corruption in Albany, NY.