10 November 2021: NY Assembly Judiciary Committee to Review Impeachment Probe Findings

It looks like the legislators sitting on the New York Assembly's Judiciary Committee will make some progress toward completing their impeachment report next week, although we wouldn't be surprised if they kick their can farther down the road given their track record in meeting deadlines.

The state Assembly Judiciary Committee will meet in Albany next week to review the findings from its now defunct impeachment probe into disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including sexual harassment allegations, nursing home data and his controversial $5.1 million pandemic book deal, sources told The Post.

“Next week, on Thursday, November 18 and Friday, November 19, members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee have been invited to Albany to review the report by Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP on the investigation into former Governor Cuomo,” said Judiciary Chairman Charles Lavine (D-LI) in a statement Wednesday.

“The investigation included interviews with 165 witnesses, along with the review of hundreds of thousands of documents, recordings, messages, memos, transcripts and other materials,” he added.

Several sources, who requested anonymity, said committee members received a “group text” from Chairman Charles Lavine (D-LI) Wednesday afternoon requesting lawmakers clear their schedules next Thursday, Nov. 18 and Friday, Nov. 19 to potentially meet in Albany and examine a copy of the long awaited report.

The NY Assembly's impeachment probe report is expected to corroborate a number of the sexual harassment allegations that led Andrew M. Cuomo to resign from office. It will also be the first report to provide an indication of finding for several of Cuomo's other scandals, including his administration's acknowledged cover-up of the full extent of COVID nursing home deaths, his pandemic "leadership" book, and others....