Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York has come under fire following an investigation into his conduct by New York Attorney General Letitia James, which found 11 counts of sexual harassment. Following the release of this report, prominent democratic politicians from the speaker of the New York State Assembly all the way up to President Joe Biden have called for his resignation. Yet while people across the country are surprised, this is not the first time the governor has shown us who he really is. The New York government has long been corrupt. And while Cuomo has vowed to rid Albany of the moral and political rot that has plagued New York for so long, he has been contributing to it.
We know that two of New York’s “three men in a room,” former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, were hammered with corruption charges, forced to resign, and then replaced with other corrupt officials. While this is very telling of the way New York has worked under Cuomo, some direct examples paint the bigger picture.
Perhaps the most prominent example is the Buffalo Billion scandal. The Buffalo Billion was a program created by the governor to breathe life into the struggling Buffalo region through a $1 billion investment in education, technology, and other industrial............
