Despite being plagued with scandals that caused him to walk away from an office he held for three terms, disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will still be able to collect a $50,000 a year pension for the rest of his life.
Cuomo managed to accrue such a hefty sum due to his 15 total years of public service that breaks down to four years as New York’s attorney general and eleven as the state’s governor.
The Empire Center for Public Policy based the $50K a year price tag off of Cuomo’s $225,000 annual pay coupled with his years in public service and came up with a figure that amounts to $4,222 a month payments from the state throughout his lifetime.
Even though he resigned and managed to side-step impeachment, Cuomo is still eligible to receive the funds.
However, there is a caveat… Cuomo can have his pension reduced or revoked if he’s convicted of a felony, through the Public Integrity Reform Act, which ironically, he approved during his first year as governor in 2011.
Current legislation has been introduced to revoke the pension of a public officer who is removed from office and would apply retroactively.
“If a public officer was so unfit to serve the residents of New York that he or she was impeached and removed from office then the individual should be fully precluded from receiving any taxpayer-subsidized pension benefits upon retirement,” the bill’s justification reads.
Despite resigning on Tuesday, Cuomo will still remain in office for the following 14 days, which could allow the impeachment process the New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee has begun to continue according to NYS Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes.
How do you think all those trial lawyers are going to collect from the settlements?
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14 days to collect pension etc then leave
NO!
Why should he get a pension when he resigns in disgrace? He already got a pardon for crimes when Biden stopped the DoJ investigation into the nursing home scandal and the deliberate under reporting of covid deaths. That was the carrot Biden/Schumer and Hillibrand gave Cuomo in order to get him to resign. otherwise he would have stayed in and toughed it out knowing that, in the end, urban New Yorkers would keep him in office because he is his fathers son and a Democrat (no. 1 reason). NYC elected Hillary and she had never lived in NY until she decided she wanted to be a Senator. NY was just her temporary stop and her stepping stone to the White House. She knew she could not get elected in any other state except maybe CA. and certainkly not in her home state of Ark. They wanted to get rid of her and Bill as quickly as they could. So they gace them to us.
That money should be divided amount the women he abused. Or donated to an organization for women that are sexual abused.