Author: Carly Roman, Washington Examiner

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be asked to appear virtually before a judge Friday despite the Albany County district attorney’s decision not to pursue criminal charges against him. Judge Holly Trexler of the Albany City Court in the 3rd Judicial District of New York told prosecutors and defense attorneys that they, along with Cuomo, are…

Albany County’s district attorney will drop a criminal charge against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for forcible touching, his office announced Tuesday. District Attorney David Soares, who foreshadowed the decision in calling the criminal complaint against Cuomo “potentially defective” in November, said his office concluded during its review that it “cannot meet [its] burden” of proof…

New York Mayor Eric Adams pledged to be “radically practical” in his inaugural mayoral remarks, rejecting the “ideological wars of our recent political past” that divided New Yorkers. Adams, who campaigned as a centrist in one of the most left-leaning cities in the United States, took veiled swipes at his predecessor, progressive former Mayor Bill…

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo will not be charged for an alleged incident of inappropriate touching that occurred in Elmont, New York, Nassau County’s district attorney said Thursday. The allegation that Cuomo inappropriately touched a state trooper at Long Island’s Belmont Racetrack in September 2019 was “credible [and] deeply troubling but not criminal under New York…

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may keep his lucrative book deal with the support of an unlikely ally. New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose bombshell Aug. 3 report vetting 11 women’s claims of sexual harassment precipitated the then-governor’s resignation later that month, told the Joint Commission on Public Ethics its Monday decision to rescind approval…

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been ordered to return the money received from his book deal to the New York attorney general’s office within 30 days. The timeline for the former governor to return the $5.1 million he received for American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from COVID-19 Pandemic to Attorney General Letitia James, whose…

An attorney for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has served the Albany County sheriff with a preservation notice regarding his “rogue” investigation, a representative for Cuomo announced Saturday. An attorney for Cuomo, who has repeatedly denied allegations of inappropriate touching, served Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple with a “preservation of records” relating to his investigation into…

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to appear in court next month in connection to charges of forcible touching, according to the Albany County sheriff. Cuomo, who was hit with the Class A misdemeanor charge Thursday, will appear in Albany City Court on Nov. 17 for allegedly committing “Unwanted Touching” against an unnamed…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema isn’t playing ball. The centrist Democrat from Arizona, in the spotlight during high-stake spending talks, skipped the Congressional Women’s Softball Game on Wednesday despite being included in the scheduled lineup and appearing in the program handed out to fans with the No. 48. Sinema’s absence at the charity game…

A New York ethics agency has voted to maintain its approval of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book deal, despite the body recently approving an investigation into that authorization. On Tuesday, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics voted 7-2 to undo its 2020 agreement allowing Cuomo to rake in an estimated $5.1 million from American Crisis:…