The U.S. Department of Justice found Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women. [POLITICO]
In his first year in office, Cuomo cut over $2 billion from public schools and health care. [NYT]
In 2022, Cuomo was sued by a state trooper who said he sexually harassed her. [AP]
In 2021, Cuomo’s executive assistant filed a criminal complaint against him for allegedly groping her. [NYT]
Cuomo has passed off the cost of his legal bills to New York taxpayers, which currently totals over $60 million. [NBC]
Cuomo hired the same attorneys to defend him in his legal cases as Harvey Weinstein and the man who made Trump’s hush money payments. [WSJ]
As Governor, Cuomo slashed corporate income taxes to their lowest level in fifty years. [NYT]
Cuomo fueled years of MTA dysfunction by bullying its leaders. No head of the bus or subway system lasted more than two years. [NY Post]
Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” project resulted in three of his closest associates going to jail for corruption. [CBS]
Between 2013 and 2015, Cuomo’s Start-Up NY program spent $46.9 million on advertising and only generated 76 new jobs. [NYT]
Under Cuomo, the state’s film tax credit ballooned to over $420 million. A report found the program generated just $0.31 in revenue for every $1 invested. [Crain’s]
Under Cuomo, New York spent $4.4 billion a year on corporate subsidies, more than the next three states combined. [Gothamist]
Cuomo oversaw the loss of 66,000 rent-stabilized apartments between 2019 and 2021. [The CITY]
Cuomo used MTA funds to bail out Upstate ski resorts. [NYDN]
Cuomo quietly inserted a provision in the state budget to shield nursing homes from lawsuits after receiving major donations. [The Guardian]
Cuomo directed staff to prioritize COVID-19 testing for his relatives and influential people with ties to the administration. [ATU]
A State Comptroller audit found Cuomo’s administration undercounted the nursing home death toll by “as much as 50 percent.” [Spectrum]
Cuomo’s team revised a report on nursing home deaths to get a lower figure as he was negotiating a multi-million dollar book deal. [The Hill]
In 2015, Cuomo’s budget included lucrative tax breaks for purchases of luxury yachts or private planes. [NYT]
Cuomo assigned staffers to spend hundreds of hours writing his memoir at the height of the pandemic. [The CITY]
In 2014, Cuomo shut down New York’s anti-corruption panel after it began investigating groups close to him politically. [NYT]
Cuomo empowered a group of turncoat Democrats to give Republicans control of the State Senate. [The New Republic]
Cuomo created a new party called the “Women’s Equality Party” that endorsed him and his allies, often over female challengers. [NYT]
Cuomo used ChatGPT to write the housing plan for his 2025 mayoral run. [Hell Gate]