[NYPOST] Assemblyman Charles Lavine, who’s nominally in charge of the supposed Cuomo impeachment inquiry, admitted last week that there’s no end anywhere in sight. Nor will there be, until Speaker Carl Heastie decides he wants it.At just the third Judiciary Committee meeting to even pretend to address the issue since the ball supposedly started rolling in March, Lavine merely announced that the $250,000 for outside lawyers at Davis Polk & Wardwell is just the start; the Assembly will spend as much "as needed" on its investigation.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand......
The Post’s Bernadette Hogan reported that Heastie dutifully played middleman when Gov. Andrew
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...Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he has about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him. Noo Yawk's politix being what they are, he is still hanging tough, waiting to ride it out....wanted Assemblyman Ron Kim to walk back his truth-telling about the admission by top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa that Team Cuomo had intentionally kept politicians in the dark about the true COVID corpse count in state nursing homes.
At the gov’s behest, Heastie had an aide "relay" Cuomo’s request that Kim deny what he’d already told the press. "I came to the conclusion that if I put out this statement, that I would be complicit in the coverup," Kim told The Post.
And Heastie had his staff convey that invitation to help deceive the public, not the first time he’s had staff relay the gov’s threats.
So it stands to reason the Assembly’s impeachment probe won’t get very far until Cuomo tells Heastie it’s time to wrap it up. And, sadly, all Cuomo has to do in return is let the speaker have his way with public policy — the public interest be damned.
Pretty sordid, isn’t it, that even the effort to hold a governor to account for horrific abuse of his office is just grist for another corrupt bargain?