Quick Partial Index (all are links) To Cuomo's Corruption And Its Cost

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Letter to Super DEBT Committee - Save $2 trillion dollars without harming Medicaid beneficiaries. link

Letter to Congress: save $200 billion in Medicaid in this year's budget.
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Congress notified of NY medicaid fraud by NYS link

Even with wildly optimistic pension earnings predictions, New York Debt per person including local debt is $24,195. For a family of four that is about $97,000. link

A. Latest on Chapter 10 Bankruptcy link 1 Link 2
B. Cuomo Budget Link 1 Link 2
C. NY Bonds Link1 Link 2 Link "Writing on Wall"

Cuomo as Governor
Medicaid Redesign Team: Medicaid Budget increases, not decreases Cuomo's Lobbyist Crony Heads Medicaid Redesign.
Cuomo's Lobbyist Crony renamed Consultant and all is well

1. Cuomo Stars as Captain Renault in Casablanca remake and link 2 Cuomo's repeat performances

2. Cuomo fails to follow Brown and cut his budget by 25%

3. More Cuomo fails to equal California's Brown

4. How States go bankrupt.

5. Cuomo and Medicaid headed nowhere

6. Look at Alternate currency: A Ron Paul, a $3 Cuomo, a California IOU

7. Cuomo's credit card taken away.

8. New Chapter 10 Federal Bankruptcy for States.

9. The new $3 Cuomo I.O.U.

10. Cuomo and NY Bondholders See The Writing On The Wall

11. New York Bankruptcy and Bond Devaluation

12. Cuomo Loads Up His Band Wagon With Committees For The Downhill Race With California

13. Ponzi to Madoff to Hevesi to DiNapoli; New York Learns About A Phony Safe 7.5% Pension Return

14 Economic Laws Lead Andrew Cuomo To A Hard Fall

15. Cuomo Meets "The Ghost Of NY Yet To Come"

16. Fiscal Disaster As Andrew Cuomo And His M.O. Are Slapped Down By Chinese Reality Checks

17. The New Word Order, "Nixon/Blogo/Cuomo" Predicates Andrew Cuomo's Fate

-Cuomo's prior corruption-

18. Cuomo Perfected His M.O. At HUD With $59 Billion Unaccounted For ; stealing the poor guys blind; Medicare $1.2 billion per year fraud; Multiple $50,000 bribes; Cuomo bungles criminal trial, rich executives walk;

19. The Second Cuomo's Smoking Gun: AEG Victory Celebration Needed Rev. Sharpton And Andrew Cuomo In The AEG Bag

20. Cuomo's Corruption Allowed $400 Million To Be Added to $1.2 Billion In NY Medicaid Fraud To Be Refunded By NY State To Federal Government

21. Andrew Cuomo Kisses And Makes Up With The Albany Swamp's Legislature Vermin, Reprobate Politicians, A Whore and Charles Rangel, Ashley Dupre, boss Vito Lopez, David Paterson, as obedient house boy, Andrew Farkas, who Cuomo accused of paying millions in kickbacks, and Allen Isaac (sex predator)

22. Sex Predator: Cuomo can clean his own nest

23. Cuomo changes pay to play to indirect payment and we're fooled

24. Cuomo bungles criminal prosecution

25. Cuomo covers up NY corruption

26. Cuomo covers up missing 9/11 Red Cross Money

27. $1.2 trillion loss resulted from the 50 % of $2.4 trillion in loans ordered by Cuomo at HUD, *Cuomo's smoking gun

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NY Like NJ Forgot To Fund Retiree Health Benefits And NY Adds $56.3 Billion To Its Unfunded Liabilities

   The Ithaca Journal falsely reports,"New York's [pension]plans aren't underfunded."   They must be comparing with the pending NJ disaster of a $120 billion dollar pension shortfall.  But NY pensions assume a 7.5% return on pension assets when they only earned 1.1%.  NY's unfunded pension debt is estimated at $143 billion dollars.   When NJ defaults, NY would soon follow.

     But what about funding retiree health benefits liability.  Pew reports, "States had only about $31 billion, or 5 percent, saved toward their obligations for retiree health care benefits."    NY had $56.3 billion dollars in retiree health benefits unfunded and according to Pew had 0.0% in its retiree health benefits funding account.   While NJ had $66.7 billion in retiree health benefits, also funded at 0.0%.

     New Yorkers now have another $56.3 billion dollars divided by 19.4 million NY population = $2,902 debt per person to add to the already calculated $24,195 State and local debt per person (link). We have a new higher total of $27,097 State and local debt per person or $108,388 for a family of four.


      Is the NY pot blacker than the NJ kettle?   Will investors want NY bonds or NJ bonds?  Neither NJ or NY can't withdraw from the USA like Greece and issue their own worthless currency to pay off its bondholders. 
  
      But in Albany, the thinking is, "What debt crisis?  Our pensions are 100% funded, aren't they?  We can fund retiree health benefits next year, right?  Andrew Cuomo has brought Hope and Change and balanced the budget, right?" Although, Andrew Cuomo had promised to throttle lobbyists in NY, "Spending on lobbying in New York tops $200 million in 2010."   And lobbyists are controlling his committees

  Meanwhile out in the cruel dark financial world outside Albany, China is reducing its holding of US debt.  link to China and NY debt      link to NY bondholders lose big in NY bankruptcy/default

And now the Chinese Debt Master holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Cuomo's blow.
Oh, somewhere in our favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is default in Albany,  the mighty Cuomo has struck out.


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