16 August 2021: NY Assembly to Produce Report on Its Cuomo Impeachment Probe

NY Assembly Judiciary Committee to issue final report on Gov. Cuomo investigation

NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced on Monday, 16 August 2021 that the NY Assembly would release final report in its impeachment inquiry to the public.

A few days after the New York State Assembly said it was suspending its impeachment investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Assembly Judiciary Committee says it will issue a final report on the investigation.

New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assembly Judiciary Chair Charles Lavine released a joint statement Monday morning saying the Assembly Judiciary Committee will continue to review the evidence, and plans to issue a final report.

Both note that the Assembly Judiciary Committee will take "all appropriate steps" to make sure that this report does not interfere with other ongoing investigations.

The report provides the text of Heastie's and Lavine's joint statement:

The Assembly Judiciary Committee will continue to review evidence and issue a final report on its investigation of Governor Cuomo. In doing so, the committee will take all appropriate steps to ensure that this effort does not interfere with various ongoing investigations by the United States Attorney concerning nursing home data; the attorney general concerning the governor's memoir; and local law enforcement authorities in five jurisdictions – Manhattan, Albany, Westchester, Nassau and Oswego – regarding possible criminal incidents of sexual misconduct.

When Heastie announced the assembly would suspend its impeachment probe of Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday, 13 August 2021, he failed to indicate if any report would be forthcoming despite the expenditure of millions of NY taxpayer dollars to fund both the probe and Andrew M. Cuomo's legal defense. That omission led to considerable pressure on him to commit to producing a report, which is what led to today's announcement.