I don’t know if you heard
about this yesterday, particularly, if you live in New York, but the steps
toward this final decision had made national news several months ago.
And now, it appears to be much ado about very little, and this latest story is kind of being buried.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office has decided not to file criminal charges in the handling of coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes during the tenure of former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
According to a spokesman for the former governor of New York, and reported in the press, "I was told that after a thorough investigation--as we have said all along--there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken."
During the early days of the pandemic, the governor put infected seniors back into nursing homes, which further spread the virus, killing hundreds of those in these facilities.
His office also supposedly under-reported the number of COVID-19 deaths at these nursing homes, so the public never received a clear picture of the ravages of the virus on that population—unless they actually had a loved one living in one of these homes,
Of course, I am pretty much summarizing what went on with the handling of these senior living facilities and Cuomo during those early days, as things were quite bleaker than I can describe in words.
My father in law lived in the Stony Brook, Long Island, VA home, and he passed on from COVID in that home.
So, now that Cuomo has been exonerated from any wrongdoing in this regard, has already been exonerated from any legal wrongdoing from at least three of the situations with women—nine more to go—and has had an up and down legal reaction to the book he wrote about handling the crisis in New York State, ordered to pay the money back but vowing to fight it—it seems a different opinion comes weekly on whether what he did was ethical or unethical about using state employees to help him with the book that netted him $5 million—you have to wonder why Cuomo is in the position that he is in, as the state’s former governor, and what his future plans are.
He was forced to resign for three reasons: 1) his relations with 12 women, all of whom said that in one way or another, he sexually harassed them; 2) his book dealings, where he supposedly used state employees on state time to help him write and edit the book; and 3) his handling of nursing homes during the early days of the pandemic.
Well, at last count, he has been freed of any responsibility for what happened in the nursing homes; three of the 12 women’s stories have been found to be perhaps repugnant but not against the law—and you just know that more are going to come under that heading, if not all of them in the coming days and months ahead—and his book dealings are up and down almost based on the weather.
So in due time, he will definitely become the “Teflon Governor,” with absolutely nothing sticking to him, no criminal charges on his back, lots ventured—and lots of money spent on his case—but absolutely nothing gained, other than his not being governor, which was the point of the whole exercise.
He evidently rubbed someone the wrong way, and this person—or persons—had the power and the wherewithal to mount a campaign against him to get him out of office, and that included everything he was charged with, and was either exonerated, received a slap on the wrist for, or will be exonerated in time.
Among these charges were those made by a group of women who claimed that he sexually harassed them.
All of these situations seemed to be twisted and turned to make this guy into a sexual predator of the greatest magnitude, but we are finding out that these women may not have actually lied, but they told tall tales to fit the narrative that was needed to thwart the former governor.
What goes on between a man and a woman often is looked at differently between the participants, and sometimes time has a funny way of changing things … and these women at least to me didn’t sound like they were being entirely above board with what they claimed to have happened.
And that makes those women who do have real claims of sexual harassment look like they are telling tales too, and that is the sad part of this whole thing.
So Cuomo really resigned for nothing, and if he would have stayed in office, he would have been impeached for nothing.
His lieutenant governor is now the governor, claiming to not know anything about anything happening in Albany at the time, which doesn’t sound plausible at all.
Now that Cuomo doesn’t have much more to worry about legally—those other nine sexual harassment cases are sure to be thrown out too—what are his plans for the future?
Well, unless those harassment episodes are quickly thrown out, another run for governor seems to be out of the question for this year.
And yes, if he ran as an independent, he would probably win the election—even though he was an egocentric politician if there ever was one, I do believe he would win handily if he would run, in particular against his former lieutenant governor in a widely Democratic state.
But could a run in 2026 be counted out if he ends up being charged with nothing?
He will be in his late 60s in age, still have a lot of charisma for the electorate that still loves him, and will certainly look at him as an underdog, a wronged politician who really didn’t do anything wrong.
Don’t put it past this guy. He is that snarky, wily and ego-driven that it just could happen.
People love victims--and comebacks--and as this whole episode unravels, Cuomo, even if you dislike the guy, is looking more like a victim of a political assassination than anything else.
Mark my words. If he is fully exonerated, you have not heard the last of Andrew Cuomo in New York politics.
And now, it appears to be much ado about very little, and this latest story is kind of being buried.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office has decided not to file criminal charges in the handling of coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes during the tenure of former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
According to a spokesman for the former governor of New York, and reported in the press, "I was told that after a thorough investigation--as we have said all along--there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken."
During the early days of the pandemic, the governor put infected seniors back into nursing homes, which further spread the virus, killing hundreds of those in these facilities.
His office also supposedly under-reported the number of COVID-19 deaths at these nursing homes, so the public never received a clear picture of the ravages of the virus on that population—unless they actually had a loved one living in one of these homes,
Of course, I am pretty much summarizing what went on with the handling of these senior living facilities and Cuomo during those early days, as things were quite bleaker than I can describe in words.
My father in law lived in the Stony Brook, Long Island, VA home, and he passed on from COVID in that home.
So, now that Cuomo has been exonerated from any wrongdoing in this regard, has already been exonerated from any legal wrongdoing from at least three of the situations with women—nine more to go—and has had an up and down legal reaction to the book he wrote about handling the crisis in New York State, ordered to pay the money back but vowing to fight it—it seems a different opinion comes weekly on whether what he did was ethical or unethical about using state employees to help him with the book that netted him $5 million—you have to wonder why Cuomo is in the position that he is in, as the state’s former governor, and what his future plans are.
He was forced to resign for three reasons: 1) his relations with 12 women, all of whom said that in one way or another, he sexually harassed them; 2) his book dealings, where he supposedly used state employees on state time to help him write and edit the book; and 3) his handling of nursing homes during the early days of the pandemic.
Well, at last count, he has been freed of any responsibility for what happened in the nursing homes; three of the 12 women’s stories have been found to be perhaps repugnant but not against the law—and you just know that more are going to come under that heading, if not all of them in the coming days and months ahead—and his book dealings are up and down almost based on the weather.
So in due time, he will definitely become the “Teflon Governor,” with absolutely nothing sticking to him, no criminal charges on his back, lots ventured—and lots of money spent on his case—but absolutely nothing gained, other than his not being governor, which was the point of the whole exercise.
He evidently rubbed someone the wrong way, and this person—or persons—had the power and the wherewithal to mount a campaign against him to get him out of office, and that included everything he was charged with, and was either exonerated, received a slap on the wrist for, or will be exonerated in time.
Among these charges were those made by a group of women who claimed that he sexually harassed them.
All of these situations seemed to be twisted and turned to make this guy into a sexual predator of the greatest magnitude, but we are finding out that these women may not have actually lied, but they told tall tales to fit the narrative that was needed to thwart the former governor.
What goes on between a man and a woman often is looked at differently between the participants, and sometimes time has a funny way of changing things … and these women at least to me didn’t sound like they were being entirely above board with what they claimed to have happened.
And that makes those women who do have real claims of sexual harassment look like they are telling tales too, and that is the sad part of this whole thing.
So Cuomo really resigned for nothing, and if he would have stayed in office, he would have been impeached for nothing.
His lieutenant governor is now the governor, claiming to not know anything about anything happening in Albany at the time, which doesn’t sound plausible at all.
Now that Cuomo doesn’t have much more to worry about legally—those other nine sexual harassment cases are sure to be thrown out too—what are his plans for the future?
Well, unless those harassment episodes are quickly thrown out, another run for governor seems to be out of the question for this year.
And yes, if he ran as an independent, he would probably win the election—even though he was an egocentric politician if there ever was one, I do believe he would win handily if he would run, in particular against his former lieutenant governor in a widely Democratic state.
But could a run in 2026 be counted out if he ends up being charged with nothing?
He will be in his late 60s in age, still have a lot of charisma for the electorate that still loves him, and will certainly look at him as an underdog, a wronged politician who really didn’t do anything wrong.
Don’t put it past this guy. He is that snarky, wily and ego-driven that it just could happen.
People love victims--and comebacks--and as this whole episode unravels, Cuomo, even if you dislike the guy, is looking more like a victim of a political assassination than anything else.
Mark my words. If he is fully exonerated, you have not heard the last of Andrew Cuomo in New York politics.
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