{"id":182134,"date":"2015-12-10T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/10\/maybe-he-will-go-to-jail-after-all\/"},"modified":"2015-12-10T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:57:00","slug":"maybe-he-will-go-to-jail-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/10\/maybe-he-will-go-to-jail-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe He Will Go to Jail After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Andrew Cuomo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/political-capital\/news-corporation-gets-taxpayer-support-after-giving-andrew-cuomo-big-book-deal\">got a $700,000.00 advance from a subsidiary of News Corp, and then they got a multi-million dollar subsidy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">New York\u2019s state government has committed millions of dollars in taxpayer support to News Corporation for a real estate deal &#8212; less than <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.harpercollins.com\/us\/press-releases\/27\/HARPERCOLLINS%20ACQUIRES%20BOOK%20FROM%20GOVERNOR%20ANDREW%20CUOMO\"> three years<\/a> after a subsidiary of that company gave New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo a book deal worth up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/albany\/2014\/05\/8546001\/cuomos-book-deal-worth-least-700k\"> $700,000<\/a>. The commitment was disclosed in documents released by the Port Authority &#8212; an agency jointly controlled by Cuomo and New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/corporate-information\/pdf\/board_meeting_agenda.pdf\"> documents<\/a> say the Port Authority, News Corporation and 21st Century Fox \u201chave received commitments from New York State\u201d for a \u201cone-time payment of $15 million in 2016 and the utilization of a $15 million\u201d state tax credit as part of the agency\u2019s push to make the companies \u201canchor tenants\u201d for 2 World Trade Center. The documents say the transactions are part of an initiative to reduce News Corporation\u2019s and 21st Century Fox\u2019s rent payments at the new building by $155 million.  <\/p>\n<p>The Cuomo-appointed executive director of the Port Authority, Patrick Foye, told International Business Times Wednesday night that he is recommending that the Port Authority\u2019s board approve the package because, he said, the agency will get significant bang for its buck. \u201cThat is objectively a good deal, a good transaction for the Port Authority and the region,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch has a long history of using political connections for business advantage, and Andrew Cuomo swims in the sea of corruption that is Albany like a fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Andrew Cuomo got a $700,000.00 advance from a subsidiary of News Corp, and then they got a multi-million dollar subsidy: New York\u2019s state government has committed millions of dollars in taxpayer support to News Corporation for a real estate deal &#8212; less than three years after a subsidiary of that company gave &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,1009,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-government","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}