The New Yorker (Digital)

The New Yorker (Digital)

1 Issue, Mar-16-15

The Mail

CUOMO’S WAY Jeffrey Toobin’s Profile of Governor Andrew Cuomo is excellent, but it does not reflect his practice of deceit (“The Albany Chronicles,” February 16th). In 2012, some of the people whom Cuomo had appointed to a commission to review the Long Island Power Authority’s response to a storm did not endorse the recommendation he wanted (that LIPA should be disbanded). His response was to rewrite parts of the commission’s final report. In 2013, he claimed that the Moreland Commission would be independent, and could investigate anyone, but when the commission subpoenaed a firm that had made ads for the Governor’s campaign, Cuomo’s staffdemanded that the subpoenas be recalled; he also intervened when the commission sought to subpoena a trade group that had supported him. He ultimately shut down the commission…
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