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New law bars convicted ex-pols from running Cuomo besieged as crises grow County parties hold off on mayoral endorsements
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signed legislation on Thursday designed to prevent individuals convicted of felony public corruption from holding city office again. If that sounds like the kind of implausible scenario that wouldn’t take a law to prevent, you haven’t met Hiram Monserrate.
The former state senator from Queens was expelled from the Legislature after a domestic violence conviction where he was accused of slashing his girlfriend’s face with a broken glass. Then, he did time in federal prison for an entirely separate crime illegally steering public funds to his campaign when he served on the City Council.
New York lawmakers grill Cuomo s health commissioner over nursing homes
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s health commissioner came under a five-hour virtual grilling on Thursday as lawmakers, including some of Cuomo s fellow Democrats, sought more details about the governor s nursing home policies during the earliest weeks of the coronavirus pandemic last spring.
During the often contentious hearing, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker stood by the Cuomo administration s longstanding assertion that asymptomatic spread among nursing home workers and not the admission of Covid patients in those facilities led to viral outbreaks and deaths. He accused critics of attempting to “politicize” the issue.