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@nypost
City Hall Bureau Chief/Albany |
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I'm so excited to start an another amazing opportunity:
I'm joining
@NY1
as an on air political reporter in September, taking over the state house beat: covering
@GovKathyHochul
, the state legislature &
@NYCMayor
's inroads into Albany.
.
@NYGovCuomo
is having his 89-year old mother and two daughters to Albany for Thanksgiving.
“The story is, my mom is going to come up and two of my girls. But the plans change."
He has spent the better half of two weeks telling New Yorkers to stay home for the holiday.
"You pick the 26,000 people who will die because YOU only sent 400 ventilators,"
@NYGovCuomo
screams at the federal government (presumably watching this press conference).
He needs 30,000 ventilators.
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
admits he called up
@rontkim
-- Democrat who has been highly critical of Cuomo's nursing home policy -- & tried to pressure him to issue a statement supporting the admin.
Cuomo tries to say "the
@nypost
reporter" (me) misquoted Kim.
Which, is not true.
Post Exclu:
@NYGovCuomo
top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors.
During his
@SIRIUSXM
podcast today,
@ChrisCuomo
says
@andrewcuomo
“had to resign” for 3 reasons:
1. Dems turned on him
2. GOP hated him
3. Media “never really liked him”
Doesn’t mention 11 women whose sexual harassment allegations were deemed credible by
@NewYorkStateAG
.
Personal news: Starting today, I am officially returning to the
@nypost
as the paper's Albany Bureau Chief after a brief hiatus. Excited to be back on the beat I love, covering a new era in NYS politics.
Disgraced former Gov. Cuomo could be forced to return the royalties gained from his $5.1M book deal if it’s determined that he violated New York law, JCOPE’s executive director told lawmakers in Albany on Wednesday.
via
@nypmetro
New: In April 2020,
@NYGovCuomo
admin largely ignored Steuben County’s pleas for nursing home COVID-19 tests—pandemic’s height—prompting officials to drive to other counties to secure swabs, as Cuomo allegedly secured the then-scarce tests for relatives.
Cuomo wants state lawmakers to pass 'Amy Cooper' 911 false accusation bill; lawmakers spend Friday in virtual conference planning return to Albany to pass police reform legislation —> via
@nypmetro
New: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is heading to Long Island Saturday to stump for
@leezeldin
, the first of several big names showing up across New York to join gubernatorial candidates in the final days leading up to election day on Nov. 8.
via
@nypmetro
Professional News: Excited to announce I’ve started as
@nypost
City Hall Bureau Chief.
It’s been an incredible four years in Albany covering state government, working with amazing sources and my colleagues in the LCA.
Still at: bhogan
@nypost
.com, DM & Signal.
Taxpayers are being forced to shell out over $900 an hr for
@NYGovCuomo
’s lead defense lawyer to help him try & fend off charges that he used staffers to help write a book & his handing of the coronavirus in nursing homes —>
Via
@nypost
photographer Kevin Downs outside the Executive Mansion this morning:
@NYGovCuomo
’s moving operations are underway. UHaul truck parked outside was quickly moved to the back of the house, away from media this morning.
Legislative sources: Additional hearings and utilizing subpoena power to get
@NYGovCuomo
admin to testify under oath are being discussed/on table in state Senate, after last night's bombshell reports revealed top Cuomo advisors edited a July nursing home report & excluded data.
“You see an incredibly shrinking governor. He can’t get anyone to stand with him and he can’t get anything done on his own.”
NY's $212B budget shows how Gov. Cuomo's scandals have drained his power —>
via
@nypmetro
DATING NEWS from
@NYGovCuomo
: “I don't have a girlfriend, I have a couple irons in the fire but I don’t have a girlfriend per se...” he says on
@WAMCRadio
.
@NYGovCuomo
rips
@realDonaldTrump
's Twitter use:
"The President and his tweets - this has been from day one - they have been emotional, provocative."
"They’re often not correct they're not based on fact so I don’t know that anyone really takes them as informational.."
.
@NYCMayor
slams right to shelter mandate: "You come to New York City, and we are supposed to feed, clothe house you as long as you want."
"That is just not sustainable. It's not realistic. So because of that you will find that people come from all over. "
The President is calling out
@NYGovCuomo
for New York’s high nursing home death rate due to Covid-19. That figure is recorded at 6,600 between nursing homes and adult care facility deaths, but experts have estimated the count could be much, much higher.
Governors Andrew Cuomo of New York has the worst record on death and China Virus. 11,000 people alone died in Nursing Homes because of his incompetence!
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s staff was hit with more resignations Friday as the embattled gov struggles to hang onto his powerful post amid growing calls for his ouster over allegations of sexual harassment and the nursing home deaths cover-up.
w/
@ndhapple
BREAKING:
@LtGovBenjamin
has resigned.
“I have accepted Brian Benjamin’s resignation effective immediately. While the legal process plays out, it is clear to both of us that he cannot continue to serve as Lieutenant Governor,”
@GovKathyHochul
says in a statement.
“If you’re feeling disoriented it’s not you,"
@NYGovCuomo
.
“Today is Saturday...but if you drive around it doesn’t seem like Saturday.
"People were off work…yesterday."
"It’s literally one day blending into another."
"It feels like it’s been going on forever."
#coronavirus
"It’s just confounding...On what theory would Trump even know of Sheldon Silver and what possible connection or rationale?”
@NYGovCuomo
mulls over possible pardon of convicted ex-NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
"He’s making a mockery of everything," the gov adds of Trump.
NEW: Over 55 Democrats in the state Senate/Assembly release a statement: “It is time for
@NYGovCuomo
to resign,” citing nursing home data & sexual harassment allegations. They say they have full confidence in
@TishJames
& change in exec leadership won’t impede her investigation.
New: A Nassau Supreme Court judge issued a decision today knocking down an emergency regulation issued by
@HealthNYGov
permitting NY’s statewide mask mandate.
Judge says it’s “null and void” as the DOH / the gov doesn’t have the authority to create laws — just the Legislature.
In today’s
@nypost
: A 2020 timeline of
@andrewcuomo
’s book deal negotiations as his administration’s nursing home scandal was playing out in real time.
March 1: COVID-19 hit NYS
March 19: Cuomo &
@penguinrandom
connect
July 6: DOH releases nursing home report
July 10: $5.1M deal
Assembly report confirms
@andrewcuomo
did withhold nursing home data. PG 41: In Aug 2020, DOH's Dr. Zucker tried to give true death # to Legislature, but Executive Chamber "never authorized releasing that letter."
Cuomo spent the last yr blaming politics:
Post Exclu: The staffer who accused
@NYGovCuomo
of groping her has filed a criminal complaint with the Albany County Sheriff's Office.
“The end result could either be...an arrest is made & it would be up to the DA to prosecute the arrest."
via
@nypmetro
“I can’t have one more video chat where he’s crying, I can’t see his face like that. We’re not in March or April and this prolonged isolation is killing our loved ones.”
Nursing home families rally for
@NYGovCuomo
to loosen visitation restrictions —>
Disturbing photos show garbage bags full of sandwiches and bagels awaiting disposal at the four-star Row NYC hotel near Times Square, where the city pays a daily rate as high as $500 per room, hotel employee Felipe Rodriguez told The Post.
via
@nypmetro
Inbox: “Instead of apologizing and taking one iota of responsibility, he politically attacked the press, lawmakers, nursing home staff and blamed everyone but the man in the mirror ...” says
@SenatorOrtt
of
@NYGovCuomo
—>
“CNN claimed Wednesday that it has reinstated a “rule” that prevents Chris Cuomo from “interviewing or covering his brother” — after the host completely ignored the nursing home death cover-up scandal engulfing Gov. Andrew Cuomo.”
via
@nypmetro
Post Exclu: On Feb. 11,
@rontkim
got a text message from a
@CarlHeastie
aide "relaying a message" from
@NYGovCuomo
, which detailed a "possible statement" for Kim to use walking back remarks to The Post about the admin's "coverup" of nursing home deaths.
NEW: Democrats
@rontkim
&
@Biaggi4NY
introduced a new bill that would revoke
@NYGovCuomo
's COVID-19 emergency powers if passed.
Kim also wrote a letter accusing Cuomo of 'obstruction of justice' over NY's nursing home scandal
@ccampy
& edit to last tweet
FROM ALBANY: The city quietly painted “Black Lives Matter” onto Lark Street Tuesday, 3 blocks up from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office in the state Capitol.
The city joins Washington DC, and also beat the Big Apple to their own painting plans.
via
@nypmetro
Professional news: It's my last day at the
@nypost
.
Working at the city's best tabloid newspaper has been the privilege of a lifetime, first cutting my teeth on the Albany beat & now ending my 4.5 year career here as City Hall Bureau Chief.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo cut off
@ryantarinelli
during a virtual news conference Wednesday who was pressing him to say whether he’d resign if found guilty in a probe of his sexual harassment scandal.
via
@nypmetro
Sources: Democrats in state Legislature are furious with the latest news from WSJ/NYT that
@NYGovCuomo
admin withheld nursing home data since at least July.
Legislative source: “I think we are seeing the beginning of the end. The Governor has become a distraction.”
“The police are paid for by the community. They’re paid for by the taxpayers,"
@NYGovCuomo
.
“So what police department do you want? Because you’re paying for it."
NY State Assembly's probe into
@NYGovCuomo
will have 'wide latitude' to investigate beyond sexual misconduct allegations.
The committee will look to hire outside counsel with experience in both criminal & employment law to spearhead the inquiry.
@ccampy
.
@NYGovCuomo
has been quick to call for resignations of powerful Albany lawmakers accused of sexually harassing aides—Vito Lopez, Micah Kellner & Dennis Gabryszak—but refuses to heed his own advice now he’s the one facing multiple claims, critics argue
Tomorrow: The relatives will stand outside of Brownstone Brooklyn’s covid-ravaged Cobble Hill Health Center on Sunday at noon & demand that Cuomo apologize for what they call his botched response in nursing homes during the pandemic.
via
@nypmetro
New:
@GovKathyHochul
says fully vaccinated, asymptomatic individuals may return to work 5 days after a COVID positive case.
This is cut down from 10 days required by CDC guidance.
Andrew Cuomo is claiming he’s a victim of cancel culture during a Brooklyn speech right now, after he chose to resign last summer following the results of a report that found he sexually harassed multiple women & 4 DAs independently substantiated the credibility of those claims.
NEWS:
@ericadamsfornyc
says he wants the NYS legislature to revisit bail reform/amend the controversial 2019 law (was also amended in the 2020 budget) to give judges judicial discretion & the ability consider “dangerousness.”
Says it’ll be a top priority when dealing w/ Albany.
Striving for a Better New York, a PAC closely aligned with
@NYCMayor
, has donated $10,000 to Republican Lee Zeldin’s campaign for governor instead of incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul —>
via
@nypmetro
.
@NYGovCuomo
was still lying low Wednesday after his apparent weekend grilling over sexual harassment allegations — leading critics to accuse him of ducking the media to avoid being asked what he told investigators.
via
@nypmetro
The Governor should at least take a question from the
@nypost
after last week's bombshell, accurate, nursing home report but more importantly -- after spreading completely inaccurate information on today's phone call with reporters.
@RichAzzopardi
, text me back.
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
announces what
@NYCMayor
has been asking to do for a week.
On *MONDAY* category 1-B starts. Seniors 75+, essential workers (cops, firefighters, EMTs) can sign up for shots thru reservations at local health dept, urgent cares, pharmacies, doctor's offices etc.
Gov. Kathy Hochul held a closed-door meeting Tuesday with relatives of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19 including
@rontkim
@Voices4Seniors
@JaniceDean
& apologized for the pain caused by her predecessor, ex-Gov. Cuomo’s, handling of the crisis.
.
@NYCMayor
reveals nearly 50% of NYC hotel rooms are occupied by migrants.
Adds it's negatively impacting the Big Apple's economy.
"Instead of money coming from people who are visiting us and spending in our tourism... instead of using those hotels, we're using those hotels!"
.
@NYGovCuomo
doesn't rule out closing parks and playgrounds in NYC following a weekend of gallivanting and lack of social distancing by City residents
The Cuomo administration refused to release this data -- requested by lawmakers, reporters, family members -- for months.
Again, a nonprofit sued to release data & separately NY AG
@TishJames
investigated & found NY undercounted covid deaths associated with nursing homes.
"Total deaths were always reported to nursing homes and hospitals,"
@NYGovCuomo
says.
The issue is not total death count, it's *where* those deaths were reported.
NYS sued by the
@empirecenter
(and lost) & was forced to release the total # of where nursing home residents died.
New York
@SenGillibrand
appears to be giving
@NYGovCuomo
a long leash on the sexual harassment allegations leveled against him by a former aide — despite once leading the charge that led to then-Sen. Al Franken’s resignation over similar claims.
NEW: Federal authorities are now probing the sexual harassment claims against former Gov.
@andrewcuomo
that forced him from office, according to a legal services contract signed in October and released by
@NYSComptroller
in response to a FOIL request.
“We are calling on you to resign immediately because you have abused the office of the Governor and failed to uphold your duty to care for New Yorkers,” wrote over 100 family members who lost loved ones in nursing homes due to COVID to
@NYGovCuomo
—>
.
@NYCMayor
at Citi Field: “I want to be clear, expanding this exemption, which only applies to a small number of people, is crucial.”
He’s carving out NYC athletes and performers from the private biz vaccine mandate, eliminating for them— but keeping it for everyone else.
“It wasn’t just an executive order — it was a declaration of eldercide in the state of New York,” charged
@rontkim
of the deadly “March 25 order” that barred nursing homes from COVID testing patients prior to admission.
via
@samraskinz
Gov. Cuomo is actively talking to NJ Gov. Murphy and CT Gov. Lamont about mapping out mandatory quarantine “guidelines” for individuals traveling into the tristate area from Florida and other states seeing spikes in COVID-19 cases.
via
@nypmetro
NEW: Finger Lakes region will be the first to meet all 7 benchmarks to reopen the economy, per
@NYGovCuomo
.
They’ve got the go-ahead to begin phase one of reopening May 15.
Central New York will come next.
The Governor has his facts completely wrong in declaring "the Post reporter misquoted" Assemblyman Ron Kim.
However,
@NYGovCuomo
also admitted he called Kim, and tried to get him to take back his accurate quotes in the
@nypost
.
NEW:
@NYGovCuomo
admits he called up
@rontkim
-- Democrat who has been highly critical of Cuomo's nursing home policy -- & tried to pressure him to issue a statement supporting the admin.
Cuomo tries to say "the
@nypost
reporter" (me) misquoted Kim.
Which, is not true.
NY AG
@TishJames
is “reviewing” a letter sent to her by 5 female
@nysenategop
senators requesting an “immediate appointment of a Special Prosecutor” to review Lindsey Boylan’s accusations against Cuomo including kissing her “on the lips."
via
@nypmetro
“At the very top of the meeting...
@GovKathyHochul
leaned in pretty hard and opened up with an apology to the families,”
@rontkim
.
"That’s something they’ve been asking for — to be treated decently as human beings.”
New:
@GovKathyHochul
is personally lobbying key Dem state senators to back her controversial nomination of Judge Hector LaSalle for top New York jurist — warning at least one she will “remember” who’s with her.
w/
@ZachReports
Gov. Cuomo admitted Monday that NY could run out of state funds to pay unemployment benefits to NYers should the coronavirus pandemic continue to ravage the economy.
“No, that’s why federal government has to provide funding, we don’t have money,”
Happening now:
@HealthNYGov
Commissioner Mary Bassett says “no decision” made on when school mask mandate will end.
@LiuNewYork
says it’s getting tough to explain the continuation sans benchmarks to constituents, as “neighboring states are starting to lift their mask mandates.”
A growing bipartisan chorus of state pols is demanding that Andrew Cuomo’s handpicked SUNY chancellor, James Malatras, either resign or get the boot over newly surfaced texts that show him trashing one of the disgraced ex-gov’s sex-harass accusers.
Shout out to
@THECITYNY
's
@J__Velasquez
&
@clauirizarry
for winning the 2021 National Edward R. Murrow Award for feature reporting, & will officially accept that award tonight -->
NEW: The Joint Commission on Public Ethics has unanimously voted to conduct an internal inquiry into the approval of ex-Gov. Cuomo's $5.1M book deal.
They will retain outside counsel, per JCOPE Chair Jose Nieves during public session.
NY GOP is asking
@POTUS
to force
@NYGovCuomo
to reveal number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths, seeking to change CDC reporting requirements.
"People who lost loved ones in nursing homes deserve answers,”
@Byrne4NY
.
via
@nypmetro
“...Democrats completely lose credibility in calling for any kind of justice...We shouldn’t normalize these behaviors by standing with him on any issue,"
@rontkim
.
@AndreaSCousins
rebuked for standing with
@NYGovCuomo
, after calling for his resignation.
New: 20 homeless veterans have been kicked out from upstate hotels - including the Crossroads in Newburgh - to make room for migrants bussed from NYC, per a nonprofit that works with the vets. Vets were told their "extended stay" was no longer an option.
Happening today: Former President Donald Trump is hosting a fundraiser for upstate Republican
@EliseStefanik
at his New Jersey golf course Wednesday night. Over $250,000 has been raised for new House GOP Conference Chair, The Post has learned.
w/
@ccampy
"What a beautiful gift that is,"
@NYGovCuomo
describes the long months ahead he's looking forward to spending with his daughters.
"One door closes another opens."
NY Assembly Judiciary Committee/Davis Polk & Wardell found that
@andrewcuomo
“utilized state resources and property, including work by executive chamber staff to write, publish and promote his book for a $5.2 million personal profit.”
via
@nypmetro
I’ll remind you and your boss of two things: 1) if reporters went public with every disgusting, off color, off the record thing
@NYGovCuomo
or you two said to them you’d have been out of that office a long time ago. And 2) I’ve got
@bern_hogan
for one more day … so Happy Friday
.
@LindseyBoylan
, who has accused
@NYGovCuomo
of sexual harassment, said his outgoing lawyer Judith Mogul should be “disbarred” over her key role in the scandal presently under investigation by the
@NewYorkStateAG
& part of an impeachment probe.
The legislation, if passed, would establish a 5-member commission to conduct an investigation with subpoena power and perform a top-to-bottom review of what happened in the state’s 613 nursing home facilities during the coronavirus pandemic.
via
@nypmetro
BREAKING: 613 positive cases in New York State, 187 new cases from this morning.
269 in NYC, 115 new
178 in Westchester, 28 new
State has done 4700 tests, with 738 additional tests since this morning, per
@NYGovCuomo
“I am without words. This is now sexual assault,”
@rontkim
.
“We have a moral duty to remove him from office to protect the safety of other staff members around him as we thoroughly investigate his actions,” Kim says of the latest allegations revealed tied to
@NYGovCuomo
.