Who's Cuomo Kidding?

Governor Cuomo, he of the Committe To Save New York campaign slush fund of unmarked bills and contributions from corporate and Wall Street donors is dismayed over the Smith/Halloran indictments:

The allegations are very serious,” Cuomo said after announcing a budget-boasting event in Buffalo. “I was the attorney general. I spent more time working on political reform and political corruption than probably any attorney general in modern political history.”

“I hope that he [Smith] fully cooperates with the investigation and I hope the investigation is thorough and speedy and gets to the facts,” Cuomo continued. “But it is very, very troubling. We have zero tolerance for any violation of the public integrity and the public trust.”

The financial collapse brought about by unethical and criminal activity on Wall Street at firms like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Goldman Sachs, BoA, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase all happened on Cuomo's watch as attorney general.

He indicted not one person responsible for any of that mess.

Not one.

For Cuomo to bang his chest over "political corruption" while he allowed the Wall Street and hedge fund crooks to steal with impunity and then took campaign donations from them is a joke.

But of course you'd have to think some of the unnamed corporate and Wall Street donors in Cuomo's Committee To Save New York slush fund are the same people Cuomo allowed to steal with impunity.

You wouldn't know, of course, because Cuomo refuses to release the names.

We did, however, learn he took $2 million in gambling money from casino operators before he miraculously developed a plan to expand casino gambling in the state.

Quite frankly, if Malcolm Smith and Dan Halloran belong in jail for tossing around $40,000 dollar bribes, Andrew Cuomo belongs in jail for taking million dollar bribes from his Wall Street and corporate backers - the same ones he left off scott free for the '08 collapse - and the gambling interests and using that money as his political slush fund to bludgeon opponents and talk himself up as the greatest thing since Moses.