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Cuomo reacts to aide's guilty verdict
Mar 14, 2018 2:35 pm
Casey Seiler reports in the Albany Times Union that a day after his aide Joe Percoco was found guilty of accepting more than $300,000 in cash bribes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he did not know what Percoco was doing in his office. "When he left state government, he would come back into the office to handle transition matters," Cuomo told reporters. "He was there (in the administration) for a long time, he was in an important position, and he would come back and he was handling the transition. Which is fine. But there should be no other work done from a government office besides that transition work. And in the trial, there was a suggestion that there was — and that's a violation of the rules." The governor continued, "This was a two-year trial (and) investigation. There was absolutely no suggestion ever made that I had anything to do with anything. Right? An exhaustive trial, and there was never any suggestion about any involvement by me. ... The governor's involvement was never mentioned, his name was never mentioned." Actually, Cuomo's name was mentioned throughout the trial, but not in relation to any criminality. Read the full story in the Albany Times Union.