Death, Lies, and Money - The Andrew Cuomo Dossier
02 Aug 2025 Reading time: 6 minutes
These are just some of the scandals and corrupt donor connections that Cuomo and his Super PAC has. Each of these is just a piece of the corruption puzzle.
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🚨 Cuomo Scandals & Abuses of Power
ProPublica: Cuomo Undercounted Nursing-Home COVID Deaths by ~50%
Officials deleted thousands of nursing-home fatalities from public tallies, protecting Cuomo’s halo while families grieved in the dark.
Politico: AG Report Details Pattern of Sexual Harassment
Groping, forced kisses, threats, and a smear machine aimed at the women who dared speak up.
Gothamist: Assembly Report — Staff Ghost-Wrote Cuomo’s $5 M Book
Top policy aides moonlighted as ghostwriters while frontline workers rationed PPE—Cuomo cashed the check.
NBC NY: Taxpayers Stuck With $60 M for Cuomo’s Legal Bills
State picks up the tab while Cuomo’s lawyers rifle through accusers’ medical files.
Politico: Cuomo Lawyers Demand Accuser’s Gynecological Records (Jun 23 2025)
Tax-funded legal team subpoenaed a survivor’s gynecological and therapy records to dig up “dirt.”
NBC NY: Cuomo Drops the N-Word on Live Radio
Blurts the slur, then blames “context.” Bigotry in real time.
Times of Israel: Cuomo on Sukkot — “These People and Their F’ing Tree Houses”
Mocks a Jewish holiday rite as a nuisance—bigotry, unfiltered.
NY Times: Cuomo Killed the Moreland Anti-Corruption Panel
Ethics panel subpoenaed his donors on Monday; Cuomo shut it down by Friday.
NY Focus: Cuomo Hid Lobbyist Bundlers From Disclosure
Six-figure fundraisers filed under “miscellaneous” to dodge NYC rules.
Politico: “Clerical Errors” Hide Lobbyist & PAC Cash
Misspelled names and blank PAC IDs magically erase conflicts.
NY Times: Cuomo & Christie Veto Port Authority Reform (Dec 28 2014)
Bipartisan overhaul killed so cronies keep milking the patronage trough.
Politico: Buffalo Billion Boondoggle Tied to Elon Musk (Mar 22 2025)
In Cuomo’s NY - there are hundreds of millions for billionaires, but nothing for the rest of us
New Yorker: Cuomo’s War on Prosecutor Preet Bharara
Stonewalled, smeared, and tried to kneecap the U.S. attorney who sniffed too close.
Hell Gate: Cuomo Drives Like an Asshole
Speeding tickets, hydrant blocks, crosswalk hogging—rules for thee, not for me.
NY Post: Cuomo Hid $2.6 M in Nuclear-Stock Options (Jun 16 2025)
Preached clean energy transparency while sitting on undisclosed options.
The Intercept: Andrew Cuomo’s Biggest Donors Rake In Millions From ICE
Ethically horrific; Cuomo owned by some of the countries worst people who make money from ICE.
Hell Gate: Cuomo Courts Epstein-Linked Financier Glenn Dubin
Dubin’s Epstein baggage didn’t stop Cuomo from taking six-figure donations.
Capital & Main: Cuomo Took $25K From Weinstein’s Law Firm
Halts Weinstein probe, pockets $25K from the mogul’s defense team—survivors sold out for campaign cash.
Guardian: Cuomo Slipped Nursing-Home Immunity Into Budget After Industry Donated Millions
Immunity for the rich, death for the rest of us.
Streetsblog: Cuomo’s $2 B “Wrong-Way” LaGuardia AirTrain Clears FAA Hurdle
FAA signed off on Cuomo’s $2 billion, 1.5-mile people-mover that drags riders east—away from Manhattan—before forcing a double-back; critics call it a vanity loop that wasted federal time, ignored 47 cheaper alternatives, and was rammed through by Cuomo’s pressure on the agency.
Times Union: Cuomo Team Covered Up Broken Bolts on Mario Cuomo Bridge
Whistle-blowers say hundreds of cracked high-strength bolts were hushed up to keep ribbon-cutting on schedule—Cuomo risked a Hudson River catastrophe for a photo-op.
Times Union: VIP COVID Tests for Cuomo’s Family & Inner Circle
While ordinary New Yorkers queued for hours, state health officials were dispatched to swab Chris Cuomo and other relatives at their homes—pandemic favoritism at its sleaziest.
Politico: Cuomo Withheld Vaccines to Stall Citi Field Mass-Vax Site
Petty feud with Mayor de Blasio? Cuomo sat on doses for weeks, delaying a Queens vaccine hub out of spite—millions in Gotham left waiting while his ego took the wheel.
Observer: “Hospital Hatchet Man” Stephen Berger (Apr 3, 2006)
Berger—tapped for Cuomo’s hospital overhaul—was long known as a hospital “hatchet man” by critics for pushing closures and consolidations.
NY Times: Joseph Percoco, Ex-Cuomo Aide, Found Guilty (Mar 13, 2018)
Cuomo’s closest aide was convicted in a bribery scheme involving state projects (some counts later vacated in 2023); the scandal exposed pay‑to‑play around Cuomo’s economic development machine.
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Audio: Cuomo Counts on Trump’s Help to Win – The New Republic (Aug 19 2025)
At a Hamptons fundraiser (🙄), Cuomo is heard predicting, foreshadowing, and hoping for a Trump (and other top GOP insider) boost for his mayoral bid; telling GOP voters to ditch Sliwa to “stop Mamdani”. Also heard boasting he “knew the president very well,” a far cry from his public posture.
Cuomo Campaign Distances Itself From Right-Wing “Memelord” – City & State NY (Aug 19 2025)
A professional meme-maker with a far-right shitposting feed claimed credit for a Cuomo meme; the campaign scrambled to say he’s “not with us” and “not paid” — while admitting they used one of his suggestions. Embarrassing flirtation with the MAGA meme machine.
NY Daily News: Cuomo’s Campaign Unlocked Matching Funds on Donations from Minors (Sep 10, 2025)
Report: Contributions from minors were used to trigger public matching funds, in apparent violation of NYC Campaign Finance Board rules. Weird, illegal, AND corrupt.
🏙️ Real-Estate & Landlord Money — Rent-Hike Royalty
| Donor & Link | Cash | What They Expect |
|---|---|---|
| Durst Organization | $100,000 | Luxury-tower landlord banking on weak rent laws that hurt the everyday guy. |
| Peter Fine / Atlantic Development | $250,000 | Unethical bronx developer needing fast rezonings |
| Fisher Brothers | $100,000 | Fisher Brothers epitomizes NYC pay-to-play real-estate corruption. |
| Halmar International | $250,000 | Contract builder eyeing fat infrastructure bids |
| 24 “Doing Business” list Donors | $2,700,000 | Contractors stuffing the war chest for favors |
| Landlord PAC “Housing for All” | $2,500,000 | Built to kill rent control & stabilization, eviction bans, and more. |
🟥 Trump-Toolbox Donors — Red Cash in a Blue Wrapper
| Donor & Link | Cash | GOP / Trump Tie |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Ackman | $250,000 | Hedge-fund megaphone, Trump & DeSantis booster |
| Ken Langone | $50,000 | Home-Depot co-founder, GOP mega-donor |
| 167 Other GOP Donors | — | Koch-network lawyers, MAGA bundlers, GOP mega money, etc |
💸 Billionaire & Tech Titans — Policy Pay-to-Play
| Donor & Link | Cash | Desired Favor |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Bloomberg | $8,300,000 | Wall-St tax breaks and soft-pedaled policing legacy |
| Barry Diller | $250,000 | Media titan fighting NYC digital-ad levy |
| Alice Walton | $100,000 | Walmart heiress cheering anti-union signals |
| Reed Hastings | $250,000 | Netflix chief lobbying against streaming surcharges |
| DoorDash | $1,000,0000 | Gig-app giant fighting delivery-worker minimum-pay rules & e-bike regulation |
| Lyft | $15,000 | Lobbying to pay it’s drivers less |
| Daniel Loeb | $250,000 | Hedge-fund raider crusading against millionaire’s tax |
| Matt Hulsizer | $250,000 | High-frequency trader pushing to kill stock-transfer fee |