U.S. Attorney Warns Cuomo on Ethics Case

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Source: NYT

In an escalation of the confrontation between the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over the governor’s cancellation of his own anticorruption commission, Mr. Bharara has threatened to investigate the Cuomo administration for possible obstruction of justice or witness tampering.

The warning, in a sharply worded letter from Mr. Bharara’s office, came after several members of the panel issued public statements defending the governor’s handling of the panel, known as the Moreland Commission, which Mr. Cuomo created last year with promises of cleaning up corruption in state politics but shut down abruptly in March.

Mr. Bharara’s office has been investigating the shutdown of the commission, and pursuing its unfinished corruption cases, since April.

In the letter, sent late Wednesday afternoon to a lawyer for the panel, prosecutors alluded to a number of statements made by its members on Monday, which generally defended Mr. Cuomo’s handling of the commission. The statements were released on the same day Mr. Cuomo first publicly responded to a report in The New York Times that described how he and his aides had compromised the commission’s work.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/nyregion/us-attorney-warns-cuomo-on-ethics-case-.html

[Lurks Often]

1. I think we can cross Cuomo off the list of 2016 Presidential candiates

even if he did nothing wrong, which I doubt, this is going to hang over his head and all but the most partisan will think there was at least something questionable in Cuomo's abrupt shutting down of an ethics committee.

[philosslayer]

2. Is there a 2014 Presidential election I'm not aware of?

[Lurks Often]

3. Oops!! Need mopre coffee!!!

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Watching the Morning Joe Show this morning ...

I was shocked ... shocked ... I tell you, that the panel saw Cuomo's "predicament" as so much worse than the Christie "predicament" ... I mean, one of the panelist even said, "This (the Cuomo predicament) has the attention of the U.S. Attorney's Office!!!!"

Now correct me if I am wrong; but isn't the U.S, Attorney's Office actively investigating Christie regarding the "Bridge-gate" thing and the "Sandy" thing?

[PeoViejo]

5. Yeah, but...

It's about getting ahead of the narrative...