Cuomo always had a hostile relationship with facts, with science, with the law
Sure, Cuomo visited Israel a couple of times. Sure, the former governor allocated $25 million to protect Jewish nonprofits. (The funds were announced, re-announced, again and again, for three years, and never released — until his successor paid it out a month after taking office.) And sure, Cuomo directed the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to investigate every anti-Semitic attack. (No one I know ever saw them at the scene or interviewing witnesses.)
Sure, some of Andrew Cuomo’s best friends are Jewish.
“Facts,” Cuomo used to say.
And the facts are flooding the zone. The series of interviews conducted by Attorney General Letitia James’s special investigators into Cuomo malfeasance were released last week. From the bizarre to the petty, the bundle of contradictions who led New York until the fall, until his fall, is laid out in raw minutiae.
His perplexing reference to Senator Chuck Schumer as “your rabbi” when talking to prosecutor Joon Kim is one of the odder moments. Kim indeed worked for former US Attorney Preet Bharara, who in turn worked for Schumer, who is Jewish. Was Cuomo insinuating that the Jews are his umglick?
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