Cuomo: Astorino’s Moreland Criticism ‘Entertaining’
Nick Reisman
Gov. Andrew Cuomo brushed off criticism from Republican Rob Astorino on Wednesday, who alleged the incumbent Democrat may have broken the law when his office became involved in the direction of subpoenas issued by the Moreland Commission To Investigate Public Corruption.
Astorino, the GOP candidate for governor, said in a news released that Cuomo’s violated state law when he failed to turn over any evidence gathered by the commission to the State Police.
“The only way to get to the bottom of this is for Mr. Cuomo to produce evidence right now that Moreland criminal probes were referred to the State Police and other law enforcement authorities, or for an impartial special state prosecutor to be appointed to look into why these cases were not referred. If Mr. Cuomo shut down criminal probes of political cronies without passing along accumulated evidence, that would be a very serious charge, indeed.”
Cuomo, on Long Island for an announcement on storm recovery, laughed the comment off.
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