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U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara lashed out at the state’s executive
branch and the “show-the-money-culture in Albany” today as he unveiled a
massive criminal complaint
implicating some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s closest associates—but he
refused to say what the governor’s knowledge of the alleged scheme might
be.
Addressing the press at his office in Lower Manhattan, the federal prosecutor asserted Cuomo’s ex-deputy executive secretary Joseph Percoco was “on the take” and that “pervasive corruption and fraud” infested one of the governor’s signature economic development programs.
“Companies got rich, and the public got bamboozled,” Bharara said. “I
do hope there’s a trial in this case, so that all New Yorkers can see,
in gory detail, what their state government has been up to.”
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Source: Observer (Politics) via The Empire Report
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