We open another Cuomo Babushka doll and inside is Andrew in a Police uniform with a badge saying Keystone Cop Captain. Sadly, the Keystone State is Pennsylvania, but that doesn’t prevent Andrew from happily smiling.
“A New York state judge has tossed out the felony convictions of two former Marsh & McLennan Cos. executives after finding that the state attorney general’s office had failed to turn over to the defense potentially exculpatory evidence, including some 700,000 documents obtained during a related civil proceeding.”
Judge “Yates did not buy what he called the “theoretical argument” that ‘in the abstract,’ the two [Cuomo] bureaus’ are separate and distinct entities operating in disconnected spheres’.” Keystone Captain Cuomo was claiming his right hand didn’t know what his left was doing. But the judge wrote, “[O]ne office, under the control of one prosecutor is authorized to prosecute Martin Act violations by civil and/or criminal prosecution. Nowhere in this statutory authority conferred upon the Attorney General in either the Executive Law or the General Business Law is there a division of authority.”
Richard L. Spinogatti and Robert J. Cleary of Proskauer Rose represented Gilman whose conviction was overturned. But Keystone Captain Cuomo assuredly was not influenced by Proskauer contributions to his campaign.
The losers were the NY taxpayers who funded this Keystone Cop Farce. Among the winners were Andrew Cuomo and Proskauer Rose. Whether justice was served is lost in this farce.
