DC:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who considers himself a champion of women’s rights, asked his state’s attorney general to suspend an investigation into the handling of a sexual misconduct case of Harvey Weinstein just six days after receiving a $25,000 campaign donation from Weinstein’s attorney’s law firm.
A spokeswoman for Attorney General Barbara Underwood confirmed to the Associated Press on Wednesday that the probe into whether Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. mishandled allegations of sexual misconduct by Weinstein has been put on hold, per Cuomo’s direction.
The AG’s spokeswoman, Amy Spitalnick, claims Cuomo’s reasoning for halting the probe was to allow Vance to focus on his ongoing prosecution of Weinstein in another case.
The tangled web of money and prosecution goes back to 2015 when Weinstein’s lawyer allegedly gave Vance’s office $10,000 while he was running for his third term in office.
The donation came just months after Vance declined to prosecute Weinstein on sexual assault allegations, according to an International Business Times review of campaign finance documents.
The campaign donation came from one of Weinstein’s attorneys, David Boies, and is only part of the $182,000 that Boies and his firm, Boies Schiller & Flexner, have given Vance in his political career, according to the campaign finance documents.
Now, less than a year after the report about Boies’ donations erupted, Cuomo is inserting himself in the entanglement as reports surface that Boies’ firm donated $25,000 to Cuomo’s campaign in June. more here
That would be considered a “News Story”. I wonder if Freddo Cuomo will cover that on his “news” show? Or is Freddo still doing the Russia Russia Russia routine?
What a Hippocric, I can’t wait to see his Brother ” Barky the Doberman ” explain this loss of Family Credibility.
Does this qualify as a #Meeetoooooo Seems to me like “women” got an uninvited and unsolicited screwing here.
It’s all OK. I’m sure the NY AG will investigate, and declare there was no criminal intent. Might have to give back the $25K, though.
Cuomo is a crook.
Just like his father.
Just like his organized crime connected
grandparents.
It should be
” No future for Andy ”
But the MSM is owned by the DNC.
The going rate for favor purchase set by Gov Andrew seems quite cheap. How much are other democrat govs charging for similar favors? They need to establish a standardized schedule so the really dumb ones don’t get shortchanged… kind of like OPEC.
More lawlessness. Two sets of rules. The elites get away with what ever the fuck they please. The laws are applied not as tools of justice but as tools of oppression. We could never get away with this.
There are no rules in America – only power
$25K was the best he could do? Wow, maybe he should set up a homebrew server in the Governor’s mansion’s shitter and sell the password like Felonia von Pantsuit did…..but can Sandra Lee give a good speech worth a million bucks?
Interesting that this comes out the day after the big debate. The actress is looking better.
Chris Cuomo needs to feel some pain in all of this.
Calling James Woods.
Oh c’mon, what’s $25K under the table, obstruction of justice, and trampling of women’s rights among good communists like cuomo and weinswine? Besides, a republican in Florida said ‘monkey’ yesterday and there’s media smearing to be done, what is really important.
Chris Cumeo, CNN. We are monitoring the situation and will keep youse informed. We’ll tell you what you need to know.
We knew what he was, now we know the price.