Tag: Andrew Cuomo

The office of U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss, left, oversees complex civil and criminal public corruption cases across New York State. There's been no public comment by Federal prosecutors in her office about the admission by her daughter-in-law, Melissa DeRosa, center, of a cover-up of COVID-19 deaths in New York State nursing homes. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (right) has refused to apologise for the spike in deaths in nursing homes. Source (L-R) : U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (Fair Use) ; Governor's Office/YouTube (Fair Use) ; Governor's Office (Fair Use)

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss doesn’t care her daughter-in-law, Melissa DeRosa, is caught up in Cuomo’s cover-up of COVID-19 nursing home deaths

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is mum following revelations that her daughter-in-law, Melissa DeRosa, admitted to participating in a conspiracy to cover-up COVID-19 deaths in New York State nursing homes.

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) solicited assistance from her political supporters to engage in a coördinated campaign to flag her critics on the Twitter social media platform for censorship. Photograph by Ståle Grut, cropped from original (CC BY-SA 2.0)

AOC rallies supporters to engage in coördinated campaign to flag Twitter and Facebook critics for censorship

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) solicited assistance from her political supporters to engage in a coördinated campaign to flag her critics on the Twitter social media platform for censorship.

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Photographs included in the Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief show abuses by the New York Police Department and examples of injuries suffered by some of the participants in the George Floyd-inspired anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests of 2020. Office of the New York State Attorney General (Fair Use)

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss mum as State Attorney General Letitia James seizes moral authority to sue the NYPD over Constitutional rights violations

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is in hiding following having been trashed in Letitia James’ Federal lawsuit for apparently countenancing NYPD’s Constitutional rights abuses.

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U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA 12) was reëlected as House Speaker on 3 January 2021. Her speakership was the target of a pressure politics campaign launched by comedian Jimmy Dore in a bid to compel a floor vote for Medicare For All. The campaign revealed how self-described progressives placed their loyalty to Speaker Pelosi before their commitment to a single-payer, universal healthcare system, even during a deadly pandemic. C-Span (Screen Shot) (Fair Use)

AOC, DSA try to move beyond unexpected social media fracas that challenged their progressive credentials, tested their loyalty to Pelosi over Medicare For All

Nancy Pelosi was reëlected as House Speaker, despite a social media campaign launched by Jimmy Dore against AOC and the Squad to fight for Medicare For All. Now, the AOC and the DSA are trying to pretend that they weren’t unmasked as unprincipled.

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A report in the New York Times suggestions that scandals at the New York City Board of Elections is undermining confidence in the troubled Agency, even as more and more controversies are triggering allegations of voter suppression. Progress New York/File Photograph

Acting U.S. Attorney mum, as reports raise the renewed spectre of voter suppression by the New York City Board of Elections

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss is keeping quiet after allegations were made of voter suppression by the New York City Board of Elections.

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The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn is one of two Federal prosecutors' offices that consult with the New York Police Department before police respond to large-scale public protests. A lack of transparency by both Federal and Municipal law enforcement may be to blame for the NYPD's culture of secrecy. Progress New York/File Photograph

EDITORIAL : To restore faith in Government, U.S. Attorneys must shine a light of transparency on the NYPD

Public confidence in Government has collapsed due to systemic racism and corruption. To restore faith in Government, U.S. Attorneys must bring transparency to the NYPD.

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Bodies of people, who have died from the Coronavirus pandemic, have been stored in large refrigerator trucks outside of medical facilities. One such truck is parked on West 12th Street, near 7th Ave. South, in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Staff Photograph

Editorial : St. Vincent’s Hospital closing and the collapse of public health before Coronavirus

What role did hospital closings, like St. Vincent’s in Manhattan, have on the collapse of public health in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic ?

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The New York City Housing Authority was founded years before the Nation passed the U.S. Housing Act, a law that created a framework for local Governments to create public housing agencies. The New Deal promise that housing would be treated as a social good is now under threat of privatisation. Photo Illustration/Progress New York

Feds consulting with de Blasio, as he privatises NYCHA, despite past campaign finance controversies from real estate donors

Bill de Blasio, who faced accusations of undertaking official acts on behalf of his donors, is negotiating the sale of public housing to real estate developers. How the Feds tolerate the corruptive role of money in politics undermines the public good — including public housing.

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A map of the partial, proposed route of the BQX streetcar service, indicating that the streetcar would run through the Long Island City section of Queens, which is represented in the New York City Council by Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside). New York City Economic Development Corporation/Public Domain

Amazon.com was using lobbying firm from BQX to lobby City Government for cloud computing services

By Progress New York Staff The lobbying firm, Yoswein New York, Inc., which had been prominently promoting the troubled Brooklyn-Queens Connector,

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