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State Chapters => NY/NJ => Topic started by: mountaineer on October 26, 2020, 06:23:58 pm
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Andy Cuomo's "pay to play" scandal:
Hospitals gave Gov. Andrew Cuomo a campaign booster shot: Devine
By Miranda Devine
October 25, 2020 | 10:11pm
It’s bad enough that Gov. Cuomo presided over the needless COVID-19 deaths of thousands of vulnerable people in New York nursing homes.
It’s bad enough that he wrote a shameful book praising himself for his pandemic response and now is doing a victory lap of self-congratulation in the worst-hit state in the nation.
It’s bad enough that he is mounting a pre-election scare campaign on COVID vaccines to stir up anti-vax sentiment for political purposes.
But now we discover that Cuomo got campaign funds from the hospital organizations that lobbied for his lethal policy for the elderly and which then bought TV ads whitewashing his culpability.
An exclusive audit of campaign donations to Cuomo by OpenTheBooks.com shows disturbing links with industry bodies which demanded the disastrous order forcing nursing homes to admit COVID-infected patients hospitals didn’t want. ...
New York Post (https://nypost.com/2020/10/25/hospitals-gave-gov-andrew-cuomo-a-campaign-booster-shot-devine/)
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This is one of many instances of Cuomo taking bribes.