Endgame.
It’s a real foot race at this point between the Cuomo boys to see who’ll lose his job first. On the one hand, we seem to be gaining completely new and independent grounds for impeaching Andrew each week. On the other hand, Chris’s ratings are tanking and CNN’s embarrassment at his softball treatment of his brother last year — which the network approved, let’s not forget — is deepening by the day. I used to wonder how many of Andrew’s scandals Chris was privy to yet withheld from his colleagues and his viewers despite their obvious news value. In light of today’s news, I’ve started wondering how many of Andrew’s scandals Chris may have personally participated in but didn’t disclose. By fall they’ll be co-hosting a podcast together, the lowest form of post-politics, post-big-media existence. Jazz ran through the details this morning of Andrew’s latest disgrace, dispatching medical officers and cops around New York in the early days of COVID to make sure his family was tested promptly while the rest of the state struggled to cope — especially nursing homes, which weren’t allowed to test residents who were suspected of having the virus by order of the governor. “[T]his story looks very bad for Cuomo, even if there wasn’t an underlying crime committed,” Jazz noted. But was there an underlying crime committed? NY1 reporter Zack Fink thinks so: In light of the latest revelations about @NYGovCuomo, first reported in the @timesunion & @washingtonpost, Cuomo’s conduct of supplying scarce Covid testing for friends and family appears to be a clear violation of New York State Public Officers Law Part 74, Public Standards: pic.twitter.com/HqRmQW8dnr Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) March 25, 2021 Pretty straightforward. To wriggle free of that, Cuomo would presumably argue that he’s not an “officer” of a state agency within the meaning of the statute (although that appears to be incorrect) or that there was no “misappropriation” in this case because, as his spokesman has claimed, they were testing other people at the time too, including legislators and their families.
