Republicans and Democrats alike commended the US intelligence agency this year for its prompt and precise reporting on Putin’s army buildup on the Ukrainian border and its alerts to an impending invasion.
According to reports, Putin had been preparing to attack the neighboring nation for some weeks before the assault began on February 24.
We observed his actions. You observed it. According to the president, Putin’s playbook was exposed by the forces he was gathering and the plans he was developing, which “punched a huge hole in the pretense and invalidated his lies about what we were doing in Ukraine.”
They accomplished this “without disclosing sources and tactics that had been crucial to our capacity to rally our allies and partners around the world,” he continued.
Cuomo, who was forced to resign in August 2021 over multiple sex pest claims, had already written 70,000 words in the 80,000-word memoir that details his role as governor in leading the state’s response during the COVID pandemic.
The investigation revealed that JCOPE failed to recognize the potential ‘moral quandary’ in approving the deal and failed to properly-vet Cuomo’s behavior Spectrum News1 reported.
infamous ex-NY Before requesting approval from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, Governor Andrew Cuomo had already written 70,000 words of the 80,000-word biography detailing his leadership of the state’s reaction during the Covid outbreak.
Instead of notifying the Executive Chamber what information it needed to submit in order to receive permission, the news source claimed that “rather than doing so, the Executive Chamber told JCOPE what information the Governor would supply, which was not much.”
The report’s findings also show how the then-administration Governor’s coerced the watchdog committee into approving the agreement without having the organization conduct a routine assessment of its conditions.
At a meeting on Thursday, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, which is now being demobilized, decided to make the report public.
A new commission will be established by lawmakers and New York Governor Kathy Hochul to regulate lobbying and ethical behavior in state government.
Cuomo’s use of public resources to assist him in writing the book is the subject of a separate investigation that is still ongoing. The accusations brought against Cuomo by Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, have been refuted by Cuomo’s team.
At the time of the book’s publication, he was feted as a national hero – and possible future presidential candidate – because of his cool handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and regular briefings, which many New Yorkers found soothing.
Cuomo’s career later collapsed after he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior towards multiple women. He was also blamed for many of New York’s 15,000 nursing home COVID deaths after forcing the facilities to accept COVID-positive patients at the start of the pandemic.
According to a previous Associated Press article, Cuomo sued the state’s ethics committee in April after the JCOPE ordered him to turn up the proceeds from the lucrative book contract in December.
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Cuomo claimed that the oversight group had violated his constitutional rights in a case that was submitted to the state Supreme Court in Albany, according to the news source.
According to him, JCOPE had “extreme bias against him.”
At the time, a JCOPE representative declined to comment due to Cuomo’s anger.
JCOPE, which has the responsibility of exercising regulatory oversight over lobbyists and public servants, had approved Cuomo’s book contract in July 2020.
The former governor was given permission to write his book on the understanding that he wouldn’t make use of any public employees or resources.
According to the study, governmental staff and resources were employed during the book’s promotion and publication.
Despite the fact that Cuomo’s agents said they were working on their own time and not for the corporation, they nonetheless denied any wrongdoing.
Former special counsel in the governor’s office, Judith Mogul, said in a memo that no state resources were used in writing the book, and that any staff assisting the former governor on the book were doing so on their own time, the AP reported.
Cuomo spokesperson Richard Azzopardi said the the report provided a measure of vindication by confirming the governor’s office provided all that was required by the commission for approval, the Associated Press reported.