Republicans: Did Broome Executive Get Cuomo Loyalty Call?
Published reports say a longtime adviser to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo leading the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been calling county executives to gauge their loyalty to the Democratic governor amid a sexual harassment investigation.
The Washington Post and The New York Times report that one Democratic county executive was so disturbed by the call from vaccine “czar” Larry Schwartz that the executive filed notice of an impending ethics complaint with the public integrity unit of the state attorney general’s office.
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Broome County Republican Committee Chairman Bijoy Datta issued a statement questioning whether Broome County Executive Jason Garnar had been a recipient of one of the calls.
Republicans: Did Broome Executive Get Cuomo Loyalty Call?
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In the final analysis, the decision not to publicly disclose these facts rested with Mayor Warren, as the elected Mayor of the City of Rochester. But Mayor Warren alone is not responsible for the suppression of the circumstances of the Prude Arrest and Mr. Prude s death, an independent report concluded. Adrian Kraus / AP
Rochester city officials, including the former police chief and the mayor, knowingly suppressed information from getting to the public, and some officials made untrue statements about the events leading to the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man experiencing a mental health episode who was asphyxiated by police while restrained and handcuffed.
Report: Rochester Police, Mayor ‘Knowingly Suppressed’ Information In Prude Case
By Vanessa Romo
March 12, 2021
Rochester city officials, including the former police chief and the mayor, “knowingly suppressed” information from getting to the public, and some officials made “untrue statements” about the events leading to the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man experiencing a mental health episode who was asphyxiated by police while restrained and handcuffed.
An independent report released on Friday chronicles how ex-Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary and Mayor Lovely Warren, over the course of more than five months, took deliberate steps to avoid disclosing the disturbing nature of the encounter between Prude and the officers. Their actions, the investigation concluded, were prompted by fears of potential protests and violence amid a national reckoning about the death of unarmed Black people in police custody.