It would have seemed to be the perfect
made-for-local-TV moment: a reporter’s hard-nosed questions about
potential corruption allegations eliciting an angry rebuke from Gov.
Andrew M. Cuomo.
Full coverage to follow, right?
But
things quickly got complicated last Tuesday when Mr. Cuomo veered
sharply away from a question about hundreds of thousands of dollars from
possible straw donors, and began to attack the parent company of the
veteran reporter who had asked it, Zack Fink of NY1.
“Speaking
of fraud, Charter Spectrum has been executing fraud on the people of
this state,” Mr. Cuomo said. He attacked the company for not building
out as much broadband in rural communities as it had promised, and for
television ads it was running to promote its record.
“You are defrauding the people of the state,” Mr. Cuomo told Mr. Fink. “That’s a fraud.”
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Source: The New York Times (via Empire Report)
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