31 July 2021: Editorial - Cuomo's Attempt to Smear Investigators

Now even Cuomo himself feels free to attack AG James and investigators probing him

This might be the first time the timeline has scooped the editors of New York Post, who just remarked on Andrew M. Cuomo's direct participation in the escalation of Team Cuomo's attacks on New York's state attorney general and her investigators.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is apparently feeling so good about the Biden administration’s Department of Justice decision to end its probe of his (mis)handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes that he feels free to personally malign state Attorney General Tish James’ investigation of sexual-harassment claims lodged against him.

And now, even Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is helping him.

Until recently, Cuomo was content to let his flacks hit James and the independent investigators she hired to conduct the probe of those allegations. But this week, he went on the attack himself, assailing the credibility of former acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim and employment-discrimination lawyer Anne Clark.

“I have concerns as to the independence of the reviewers,” Cuomo said. “Is this all happening in a political system? Yes. That is undeniable.”

Cuomo urged reporters to “look at who the independent reviewers are.” “Go to Google. Google the independent reviewers and tell me what you see.” A classic Cuomo dodge: Accuse others of playing politics and imply bias without really making the charge himself.

The editorial continues with a discussion of the Cuomo administration's other attempted smears of the investigators.

For our part, we don't have any illusions that we're influencing the NYP's editorial coverage of the Cuomo scandals, but we are happy to find we're not alone in our observations!