Cuomo Scandal7/21/2012
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Cuomo Staff's Long Letter Defending Relationship With Lobbying Group
(New York) -- Last month, the NY Times looked at how a lobbying group closely aligned with Governor Andrew Cuomo's goals was given $2 million from the gambling...
6/11/2012
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Cuomo distancing himself from gambling decisions
(New York) -- When Gov. Andrew Cuomo chose to support an amendment to legalize gambling in New York state in his 2012 State of the State Address, the gaming industry...
6/10/2012
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'Scandal' too strong; 'taint' isn't
(New York) -- Governor Cuomo's self-proclaimed and rather smug image of being above and beyond the influence of special interests took a serious hit last week over...
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Editorial: New York’s real scandal
(New York) -- Our opinion: The controversy swirling around the governor, a surrogate coalition, and a failed mega-deal underscore the need for campaign finance reform...
6/9/2012
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Analysis: $2M gambling bet puts focus on lobbyist
(New York) -- The sum of what the public knows about the biggest lobbying force in New York politics is a few pages of overall spending figures, generalities about...
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Editorial: Who Had the Better Week—Cuomo or Christie?
(New York) -- Both rock stars in their own right, both trying to right their states' ships, and both building serious momentum for a potential presidential run....
6/8/2012
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NY ethics commissioner "stunned" by gambling lobby
(New York) -- A member of the state ethics commission said Thursday that press revelations of gambling interests giving $2 million to a lobbying group that supports Gov...
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NY TIMES: Some Sunlight Would Be Nice
(New York) -- This has been a bad week for Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, and the way he and his staff have handled it only made it worse.
6/7/2012
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New York ethics board member 'stunned' by gambling donations to pro-Cuomo lobbying group
(New York) -- A member of the state ethics commission said Thursday that press revelations of gambling interests giving $2 million to a lobbying group that supports Gov...
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State ethics panel to hear about casino check to Cuomo
(New York) -- New York state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics is scheduled to hold a public hearing that goes to the heart of a conflict involving Gov. Andrew...
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Cuomo Questions Convention Plans
(New York) -- With the paint on the walls of the brand new Resorts World New York City Casino barely dry, Gov. Andrew Cuomo dedicated a huge portion of his State of the...
6/6/2012
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Andrew Cuomo Learns Why Casinos and Politics Don’t Mix
(New York) -- Follow the money. The pithy investigative advice Woodward and Bernstein attributed to Deep Throat is still brilliant and important, whatever else the...
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Committee to Save New York under fire
(New York) -- Governor Cuomo has been dealing with some negative press surrounding his connections to the Committee to Save New York. The collaboration of business...
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Controversy Over Cuomo, Contributions & Casinos
(New York) -- The television spots pushed Governor Cuomo's agenda and were paid for by the Committee to Save New York. Now major newspapers say the committee got big...
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Cuomo went too far, racino owner says
(New York) -- A minor owner of Vernon Downs near Utica said he thinks Gov. Andrew Cuomo was over the line with his comments about racinos being “a scandal”...
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Cuomo's link to the Committee to Save New York is 'necessary,' aides say
(New York) -- Andrew Cuomo's top aides said the coordination between the governor and the 501(c)4 group, the Committee to Save New York, is "wholly proper,...
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Gambling Group Pitched Convention Center at Cuomo Fund-Raiser
(New York) -- After Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's State of State speech in January, the political world wondered where the governor got the idea for a massive, Malaysian-...
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Gambling interests funding Cuomo agenda, according to news report
(New York) -- Members of the Cuomo administration encouraged deep-pocket gambling interests to donate to a group that critics say has been a political front organization...
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OP/ED: New York, play this hand very carefully / The huge costs of casinos
(New York) -- The collapse of Gov. Cuomo’s proposed deal with a Malaysian company to build a $4 billion convention center next to its Aqueduct racino in Queens...
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Pro-Cuomo cash scandal hits home
(New York) -- The Buffalo area's leading business advocacy group helped funnel $800,000 in contributions to a Manhattan-based nonprofit organization that critics...
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Pro-Cuomo group's donors may never be named
(New York) -- Most of the donors who wrote six- and seven-figure checks to a lobbying group formed to support Gov. Andrew Cuomo through a massive TV ad campaign will...
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Reports: NY Gov. Cuomo met with gambling lobbyist
(New York) -- Published reports on Wednesday recounted a meeting between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Malaysian gambling interests at an event kept off Cuomo's public...
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Amazing How Gov’s $4 B Convention Plan Dies
(New York) -- When Genting, one of the biggest casino operators in the world, agreed to put up $4 billion to build Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed largest...
6/5/2012
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Bloomberg defends Cuomo directing gambling-industry money to a pro-Cuomo group
(New York) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg today defended Andrew Cuomo's direction of gambling-industry funds to a group that supports his agenda.
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