1 December 2021: Unanswered Questions About Cuomo Scandals from the NY Assembly's Impeachment Report

Assembly's Cuomo report left outstanding questions

This report reveals the New York Assembly's report on the findings of its impeachment probe of Andrew M. Cuomo provides troubling evidence that the scandals investigated are potentially much bigger than the report acknowledges. Here's the introduction to the report, which starts with an example:

When a senior aide to former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was interviewed by investigators working for the state Assembly, the person allegedly gave misleading testimony. Work on Cuomo’s lucrative book project had been voluntary, the person had said, yet the person also complained in a 2020 text message that “American Crisis” was compromising their ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Who was the “senior state official” that apparently gave a misleading statement to investigators? The Assembly’s report doesn’t say. Beyond naming Cuomo, few who allegedly aided Cuomo in abuses of power are named in the 63-page report, and instead are largely referenced with similarly vague job titles.

When the report was released last week, attention focused on fresh evidence turned up by the eight-month, $5.1 million Assembly investigation, particularly concerning Cuomo’s extensive use of state government staff to help write a book netting him millions in personal profit. But there were aspects that went unexplained, including not only the decision to grant senior Cuomo aides anonymity, but why the report did not include a word about priority access to COVID-19 testing for Cuomo's family and friends during the early stages of the pandemic.

What that means is that the Cuomo scandals are far from over, because there's still a lot of misconduct that has not yet been properly investigated.