Gov. Andrew Cuomo
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The very thing that makes voters and taxpayers cynical is accepted by the ruling elite. At a book reading about wholesale corruption of the Boston Field Office of the FBI, I asked the authors. "Are we are supposed to believe that when (Boston crime boss) James Bulger became a fugitive (for 16 years), all of the gambling and drug rings operating in the Boston area vaporized, and that all policemen became honest?" They laughed and admitted that the reason Bulger was a problem was that he killed too many people, and corrupted too many police and FBI agents. So as Cuomo suggests, having some corruption is how politicians do business. Bulger's brother William, the Massachusetts State Senate President stated that reformers do not get re-elected. Then there is William Bratton NYC police Commissioner who famously said when Rudolf Giuliani was mayor, "People do not like whistle blowers."
[From article]
There will always be corruption in government — and Albany is no worse than anywhere else, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
“You’ve always had and you probably always will have some level of corruption,’’ said Cuomo in an interview with New York 1.
“Power corrupts, and government is a source of power, you have it in the City Council, you have it in the state Legislature, you have it in the Congress of the United States, so, that continues.”
His remarks stood in stark contrast to those of US Attorney Preet Bharara, who last week noted that state lawmakers are more likely to be arrested than be tossed out at the polls.
“When you have a degree of corruption that is that deep and pervasive and frequent, that’s a big problem,” Bharara told MSNBC.
[. . .]
Good-government groups say it’s hard to compare Albany’s cesspool of criminality with other houses of power because ethics laws vary by jurisdiction.
[. . .]
Cuomo said there are no plans to hang any photos of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in ignominy after getting caught in a hooker scandal.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/17/cuomo-says-there-will-always-be-some-corruption-in-albany/
Cuomo says there will always be some corruption in Albany
By Aaron Short
New York Post
February 17, 2015 | 12:17am
The very thing that makes voters and taxpayers cynical is accepted by the ruling elite. At a book reading about wholesale corruption of the Boston Field Office of the FBI, I asked the authors. "Are we are supposed to believe that when (Boston crime boss) James Bulger became a fugitive (for 16 years), all of the gambling and drug rings operating in the Boston area vaporized, and that all policemen became honest?" They laughed and admitted that the reason Bulger was a problem was that he killed too many people, and corrupted too many police and FBI agents. So as Cuomo suggests, having some corruption is how politicians do business. Bulger's brother William, the Massachusetts State Senate President stated that reformers do not get re-elected. Then there is William Bratton NYC police Commissioner who famously said when Rudolf Giuliani was mayor, "People do not like whistle blowers."
[From article]
There will always be corruption in government — and Albany is no worse than anywhere else, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
“You’ve always had and you probably always will have some level of corruption,’’ said Cuomo in an interview with New York 1.
“Power corrupts, and government is a source of power, you have it in the City Council, you have it in the state Legislature, you have it in the Congress of the United States, so, that continues.”
His remarks stood in stark contrast to those of US Attorney Preet Bharara, who last week noted that state lawmakers are more likely to be arrested than be tossed out at the polls.
“When you have a degree of corruption that is that deep and pervasive and frequent, that’s a big problem,” Bharara told MSNBC.
[. . .]
Good-government groups say it’s hard to compare Albany’s cesspool of criminality with other houses of power because ethics laws vary by jurisdiction.
[. . .]
Cuomo said there are no plans to hang any photos of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in ignominy after getting caught in a hooker scandal.
http://nypost.com/2015/02/17/cuomo-says-there-will-always-be-some-corruption-in-albany/
Cuomo says there will always be some corruption in Albany
By Aaron Short
New York Post
February 17, 2015 | 12:17am
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