There are new claims against
Gov. Andrew Cuomo alleging his workplace behavior was abusive.
Greenburgh Town Supervisor
Paul Feiner, a former Westchester county legislator, claims that Gov. Cuomo
threatened him in 1988 over Cuomo's plans, as head of a development company, to
build a homeless housing project in the town.
"He basically said that
if I compromised from 108 units, to even 107, he would destroy my career, break
my bones and he had the newspapers and editorial page writers that would be
critical of what I was doing," Feiner says. “Obviously, when he said, ‘Breaking the bones,' I didn’t take that literally, but it was nerve-wracking. I ultimately voted for the homeless shelter.”
Feiner's 1988 run-in with
Cuomo was mentioned in Saturday's Washington Post article and previously
included in a 1994 piece in the New York Times.
But, Cuomo still has his
supporters. In a recent statement, senior Cuomo advisor Richard Azzopardi
writes in part that he, "never heard him use coarse language."
New York state Assemblyman
Ron Kim, of Queens, tells a different story.
The Democrat says Cuomo
threatened during a call last month, to "ruin his career".
Kim is among the critics
accusing the governor of covering up the accurate count of nursing home deaths
due to COVID-19.
When asked if Cuomo should
resign, Feiner says the attorney general should investigate all of the
allegations against the governor and give him the opportunity to respond before
rushing to judgement.