Let’s take a moment to applaud New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Although his recent investigations of Wall Street has drawn comparisons to his predecessor Eliot Spitzer, the two men couldn’t be more different in style and substance, as Nicole Gelinas points out in City Journal.
Start with his relationship with the media. Spitzer liked to cast himself and the media as heroes and muckrakers battling the villains of Wall Street. His press conferences were dramatic affairs. He and his lieutenants leaked profligately about the alleged msideeds, professional and personal, of the targets of their investigations.
Andrew Cuomo, on the other hand, has taken what Gelinas describes as “a refreshing approach to Wall Street’s new round of misdeeds.” His press conferences are understated, “just the facts, mam” affairs. He speaks mostly through official spokespeople, who talk on the record. The few leaks that spring from his office focus on the professional conduct of the subjects of his investigations rather than salacious personal details.
More importantly, Cuomo has quietly filed civil cases and won investor restitution in contrast to Spitzer’s default mode of seeking criminal prosecution. “While criminal prosecution has its place in the markets, wronged investors are often better served by financial recovery through civil action than by empty revenge; and markets are better served by careful fact-finding and disclosure than by heated rhetoric,” Gelinas writes.
Andrew Cuomo’s Civil Approach [City Journal]
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And he only uses escorts, not actual hookers…
Go Epstein!
… and he’s not a law school chum of Jim Cramer, so he has that going for him …
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Let’s also take a moment to look at some of the reasons why Andrew Cuomo is relatively more low profile, like while no one is watching he has intimidated, harrassed and tried to freighten my girlfriend who used to be behind him and his political work. She was socially interested in him, stood behind his campaign, cheered him on, voted for him and even made a small contribution. How does he show his gratitude? He toys with her and hides another relationship from her so when she finds out and says “Enough. Goodbye.” He bullies her and won’t let her walk away in peace. He’s slick and has access to many forms of communication, and uses the term disclosure and transparency for only others. I and her closer friends and family want her to come forward with information on him because it’s been going on since before he was elected and she will not say anything. Cuomo may play his game of being civil to the media and public, but take a closer look at this prosecutor. Leave my girlfriend alone, Cuomo.
Single lady and a true friend
5 Sounds like another delusional NY female. And the “I and her closer friends….” gives her away as not exactly a brain trust.
This guy sounds like every NY woman’s dream catch, and also like one of Cuomo’s gang.
#5 is a talking halal cart
thank you. i love a gentleman.
Cuomo is a jerk. He was angry in this quiet personal relationship, and got in the middle of this woman’s business. As a result of his actions she lost her HMO doctor, she lost her apartment, and she had credit card fraud commited with justice obstructed. Plus, they say she has the paperwork to prove it. Getting upset once in a while isn’t so bad, but the AG needs to reel it way back in with the ladies.
Its been written many times. CUOMO ONLY CARES ABOUT CUOMO.
Cuomo is a jerk, and a bully to women as well as men.