Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin’s arrest exposes Kathy Hochul’s vast ethics problem

[Kamaji]

Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin’s arrest exposes Kathy Hochul’s vast ethics problem

By NY Post Editorial Board
April 12, 2022

Just days after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she was standing by her lying Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, who has repeatedly memory-holed subpoenas and chats with various state and federal investigators probing his past campaign activities, Benjamin surrendered to arrest by the feds.

Oops.

The charges center on his run for city comptroller last year; the FBI arrested one of his top fundraisers, Harlem real estate mogul Gerald Migdol, in November, charging him with wire fraud in illegal funding of Benjamin’s campaign.

That would’ve been a good time to find a new No. 2, Gov, coming on top of revelations that Benjamin lied on disclosure forms to become LG, pretending he’d never been under investigation when he knew he was at the time.

Or when the Times Union reported that Benjamin played fast and loose with the state Senate’s per diem and travel reimbursement system as well as state campaign finance disclosure rules. After that broke, he reimbursed his campaign committee for use of its credit card on trips covered by the Senate.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/lt-gov-brian-benjamins-arrest-exposes-kathy-hochuls-vast-ethics-problem/

[Fishrrman]

I reckon the best (or, perhaps better said as "the least worst") governor that New York state has had in recent years was that blind black guy who took over after Spitzer. David Patterson, was that his name?