Cuomo's Second Largest Donor contributes $109,500 in 5 weeks

[ABCin2014]

(By skirting election laws?).

Ironic given lip service he gives to election financing reform.

ALBANY—There were 22 checks in all, arriving in the last five weeks of a fund-raising period in which Gov. Andrew Cuomo raked in $7 million for his re-election campaign.

They totaled $109,000, sent in chunks of $5,000 or less because New York law caps its corporations annual political contributions at that amount.

They all came from the same place: the Greenwich offices of The Richman Group, a real estate company that regularly interacts with the state of New York and its related entities. According to an analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group, the firm's various legal components have contributed $264,000 to Cuomo since he took office in 2011, and are his second largest donor.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/01/8539008/second-biggest-donor-sent-109000-five-weeks

[CFLDem]

1. No major politician interested in surviving

backs finance reform. The current financing system works exactly as intended.