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N.S leaders continue call to impeach conduct and concluding sexual harassment. Now, don’t get me wrong, this is not to say that adurkin@liherald.com there are not 11 women who I G o v. A n d r e w C u o m o truly offended. There are. And announced on Tuesday that he for that I deeply, deeply apolowould resign, one week after the gize.” release of State Attorney GenerThe governor, who has been al Letitia James’s comprehen- in office since 2011, faced calls sive report detailfrom his colleagues ing alleged sexual in the State Legismisconduct by the lature to resign governor. James’s over the past week, report included teswith members timony by 179 witmaking it clear nesses and 74,000 that they would pieces of evidence. move forward with “The best way I impeachment hearcan help now is if I ings if he did not step aside and let step aside. [the] government Cuomo’s resigget back to governnation will take ing,” Cuomo said effect on Aug. 24, in a televised when New York’s address. He was lieutenant goverapologetic toward nor, Kathy Hochul, the 11 women who MICHAEL will succeed him. accused him of Despite his MONTESANO sexual harassment, announcement, Assemblyman but he denied any many legislators wrongdoing, saywere still calling ing he never intentionally mis- for impeachment proceedings to treated women. begin, hoping to block Cuomo “The most serious allegations from entering the political arena made against me had no credible again. factual basis in the report,” the Investigators said that the governor said. “There is a difference between alleged improper CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN and SCOTT BRINTON
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Fun and games at the Feast Olivia Reiner and Amanda Barton, in the first car, and Avianna Washington, 5, in the second car, had a great time on the Dragon Wagon roller coaster during the annual Feast of St. Rocco.
State audit critical of Glen Cove IDA’s monitoring of projects BY JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com
An audit report released last month by the state comptroller’s office found critical issues with the Glen Cove Industrial Development Agency’s operations, leading some residents to question its role and practices. Agency heads, however, have said that many of the report’s findings have already been addressed.
Mayor Tim Tenke, who chairs the IDA board, called for the audit when he took office in January 2018. “As the chairperson,” he said, “I wanted to understand what was happening with the IDA.” The audit report, issued July 23, covered the period from January 2017 to September 2019, and found that during that time, the “board and officials did not properly approve and monitor proj-
ects or take action when goals were not met.” Additionally, the report states, “required annual financial disclosure statements meant to identify conflicts of interest were not filed,” and that in some instances, payments in lieu of taxes were not monitored or correctly allocated to affected taxing jurisdictions. The lack of oversight has cost CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
hope we can continue to move forward with the impeachment process to ensure this man never holds the office of governor again.