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arrow Governor Andrew Cuomo at a recent event in the Bronx Carlo Allegri/AP/Shutterstock
New York’s legislative leaders have finalized a $212 billion budget that will raise income taxes on the wealthy while sending billions of dollars to struggling tenants, schools, small businesses, and undocumented residents impacted by the pandemic.
The last of the ten bills that make up the budget were passed by the State Senate overnight, with the State Assembly expected to finish voting on Wednesday afternoon. The final bills were hailed as a historic victory by progressives, who successfully fought to raise $4.3 billion through additional income and corporate taxes, over the objections of Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo signs off on legislation rolling back legal immunity for nursing homes Denis Slattery
ALBANY Gov. Cuomo signed off on legislation Tuesday that fully repeals broad liability protections granted to nursing homes and hospitals in the early days of the COVID pandemic.
The blanket protections against civil and criminal liability for frontline workers as well as hospital executives were buried in last year’s budget as the virus raged across New York, which quickly became the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S.
The roll back comes a full year later as an embattled Cuomo, facing calls for his resignation over sexual harassment allegations, contends with a federal probe examining the immunity maneuver as well as the state’s handling of nursing home COVID deaths and related data.
New York governor, brother of CNN anchor accused of sexual harassment New York governor, brother of CNN anchor accused of sexual harassment
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been accused of three separate instances of sexual harassment. Charlotte Bennett and Lindsey Boylan came forward first and Anna Ruch followed.
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Bennet, a former executive assistant and health policy adviser in Cuomo’s administration until November 2020, told the New York Times that Cuomo pried into her sex life, asking if she had ever had sex with older men and if she ever had monogamous relationships. The 25-year-old told the Times that the incidents occurred late spring of 2020. “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me,” she told the Times.