Mayor Bloomberg isn’t the only person getting snubbed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo these days. Cuomo’s office told the state’s Catholic Conference this week that the governor would not have the time to meet with Archbishop Timothy Dolan and other bishops when they travel to Albany next week for their annual conference. The governor’s decision puts [...]
As Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo readies his candidacy for governor, one industry is helping him amass a huge fund-raising advantage: real estate. New records show that even as the industry has confronted its worst crisis in decades, developers, construction executives and real estate lobbyists have given millions of dollars to Mr. Cuomo, providing one [...]
Four telemarketing companies face allegations that they that lied to New Yorkers while soliciting donations for groups that included police and firefighter associations. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that his office had filed lawsuits accusing the companies of repeatedly misleading donors about who they were and the charitable programs they supported. The suits say [...]
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has not formally announced his candidacy for governor, but he is already running ahead in the fund-raising race. Mr. Cuomo is to report on Friday that he has more than $16 million in his campaign account, dwarfing Gov. David A. Paterson’s war chest of more than $3 million. The $13 [...]
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent a letter to the eight big financial firms that received taxpayer bailout money, demanding information on executive compensation. The banks include Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and others. In particular, Cuomo wants to know how bonuses would have been affected had the banks not received bailout money, [...]
Andrew Cuomo has secretly notified Rudy Giuliani that he will run for governor next year, The Post has learned. The confidential message, conveyed through intermediaries, was delivered to Giuliani recently and is expected to play a central role in the former mayor’s impending decision on whether to run as the Republican candidate for governor in [...]
More bad news for Gov. Paterson: a group of powerful Buffalo labor union leaders called on Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to run for governor next year. In a letter to Cuomo, the 11 union bigs expressed “serious concerns” about Paterson’s actions and “the negative impact of those decisions… “While he may well be a good [...]
At a meeting in Kingston, N.Y., last week, several Democratic county leaders, including some who are allies of Mr. Cuomo, pointedly refused to commit to endorsing Mr. Paterson, the titular head of their party. And while in public, Mr. Cuomo says it is too early to think about his political future, in private, he has [...]
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s campaign finance committee for the 2010 election says it has raised $5.1 million in the past six months. Cuomo, considered a likely challenger to Gov. David Paterson next year, spent some $600,000 and had $5.6 million on hand at the close of the last reporting period in mid-January. The [...]
A lawyer for New York Gov. David Paterson says Attorney General Andrew Cuomo declined to represent the governor in the legal dispute over his appointment of veteran troubleshooter Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor. The governor’s office says Cuomo couldn’t represent Paterson because he has a different opinion about the power of the governor to name [...]
