The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It
by Craig Brandon · 17 Aug 2010 · 282pp · 26,931 words
It would be bad enough if these loans had been fair and above-board. They were not. On March 15, 2007, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo called a news conference to announce the results of a month-long investigation of the cozy relationship between student loan companies and college administrators. The
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even tack on an additional study abroad fee to pay for the costs of setting up the programs. In January 2008, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent subpoenas to fifteen universities seeking data about how they determine the costs of study abroad programs and whether they receive cash bonuses, junkets, or
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
by Nicholas A. Christakis · 27 Oct 2020 · 475pp · 127,389 words
already been over ten thousand infected people in the state.88 The day after this first known case was announced, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, appeared with the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, to say that contact tracers would look for every person on the woman’s
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Levitan reported for duty at New York’s Bellevue Hospital. The New Hampshire resident, like other volunteers from around the country who had answered Governor Andrew Cuomo’s call, had rushed to help relieve the overwhelmed ICU staff in the city’s hospitals. Dr. Levitan had trained at Bellevue himself and was
Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
by Greg Farrell · 2 Nov 2010 · 526pp · 158,913 words
become the president’s “car czar” in 2009, responsible for the turnaround of General Motors and Chrysler, which were rescued from bankruptcy with taxpayer funds. Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, would eventually bring charges against Rattner’s firm, Quadrangle, for providing gifts to the New York State Comptroller in return
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in the past two years, and whether the access to TARP funds would affect bonuses for 2008. On the state level, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo had also written to Wall Street’s biggest banks, requesting similar details about plans to pay out bonuses. Once the meeting was scheduled, Thain decided
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fine for him. The two men thanked Fleming before returning to their deliberations. THAT MORNING, IN RESPONSE to the bonus story, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo sent an open letter to the Merrill Lynch board describing Thain’s attempt to secure a bonus as “nothing less than shocking.” Through the first
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September agreement. Not only had Thain kept Alphin informed of the process, but Andrea Smith had played a role in determining the amounts paid out. Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general, issued a statement condemning the bonuses. And then, shortly after 10:00 a.m., there was a report on CNBC
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case of the industry. On the day that Merrill Lynch’s accelerated bonus payments were disclosed in the Financial Times, New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo launched his own investigation. After the “Wall Street bailout” announced the previous October, Cuomo had sent letters to the heads of the New York banks
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of the year. For most of 2009, BofA had been fighting with various regulators. The bank’s lawyers tried to resist New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo’s attempts to find out who was paid what at Merrill Lynch in 2008 and, when Cuomo’s prosecutors tried to find out why the
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men downed their spirits slowly, spoke sparingly, and went their separate ways, an atomic unit no more. · · · ON FEBRUARY 4, 2010, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo filed civil fraud charges against Lewis and Joe Price, accusing the men of deceiving their own shareholders by not disclosing the extent of the losses
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, confidential workpapers, and transcripts from internal presentations at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, as well as court documents filed by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and plaintiffs lawyers. A yearlong investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform also yielded a trove of
Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections
by Mollie Hemingway · 11 Oct 2021 · 595pp · 143,394 words
leader. And their attempts to make Trump appear as a buffoon led them to elevate an old face to the national stage: New York governor Andrew Cuomo. The media saw Cuomo as a foil against Trump, someone whom they could turn into a hero of the COVID crisis. With Joe Biden out
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on air that he doubted New York would actually need 30,000 additional ventilators or 40,000 ventilators total as claimed by New York governor Andrew Cuomo in late March.151 Cuomo, for his part, was upset that the Trump administration had not acquiesced to his request and asked them to “pick
Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
by Tamara Draut · 4 Apr 2016 · 255pp · 75,172 words
for these companies won’t credit the protesters, the voluntary across-the-board raising of their lowest wage is without precedent. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo established a wage board to examine wages in the fast-food industry. In 2015 the wage board voted to approve a $15 minimum wage for
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with legitimacy: whether to play ball with power or lose access as an outside actor. That’s exactly the dilemma the WFP faced during Governor Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for reelection in 2014. After four years as governor in New York State, Cuomo had alienated and frustrated nearly every progressive activist in
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by Steven W. Thrasher · 1 Aug 2022 · 361pp · 110,233 words
opposite of harm reduction, as they drive sex work into the shadows and onto the dark web. So Egyes decided to ask New York governor Andrew Cuomo for a pardon for her client. By the time she submitted the application, Egyes had amassed several hundred pages of testimony on Lorena’s behalf
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outside San Francisco mayor London Breed’s home to demand hotel rooms for the unhoused. I heard it when they protested New York State governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget, which slashed Medicaid spending even as the state’s hospital system teetered on the verge of collapse, and I heard it when they
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” without enslaved labor. California wasn’t the only state using enslaved labor during the coronavirus pandemic. During a shortage of hand sanitizer, New York governor Andrew Cuomo bragged about bottling it in Empire State prisons, and Texas paid incarcerated workers just two dollars an hour to move the corpses of people killed
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other journalists, Ward had been writing about the wicked ways of Donald Trump, and he’d been documenting the economic cruelty of New York governor Andrew Cuomo for a decade. He was the rare white male cynic who was angry not out of a sense of nihilism, but because he cared deeply
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’s obit, Trump’s cruelty wrote his instead. But while Republican disdain had helped kill him, a Democratic governor had helped, too. The administration of Andrew Cuomo, New York State’s governor, had controversially decided to send some 4,500 patients recovering from SARS-CoV-2 to nursing homes, like the one
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raising taxes on the state’s wealthiest inhabitants, something even Republican governors had done in times of past crises. I often found myself wondering: If Andrew Cuomo hadn’t spent so many years stripping the New York hospital system to the bone, would people with COVID-19 have been sent into nursing
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people who were disabled, it would be a great opportunity for learning and solidarity over the actual material conditions of our human lives. When reading Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 book, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, the reader is left to conclude that the governor found the thousands of
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Law, October 30, 2018, https://blog.levinperconti.com/nursing-home-flu-season/. states that did not: Joaquin Sapien and Joe Sexton, “‘Fire Through Dry Grass’: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes; Then He Risked Adding to It,” ProPublica, June 16, 2020, https://www.propublica.org/article/fire-through
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-dry-grass-andrew-cuomo-saw-covid-19-threat-to-nursing-homes-then-he-risked-adding-to-it. pandemic in the United States: Avik Roy, “The Most Important Coronavirus Statistic
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York Times, January 28, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/nyregion/nursing-home-deaths-cuomo.html. book on his pandemic response: Jon Campbell, “Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Book Sells 11,800 Copies, Lands on Best Sellers List,” Democrat and Chronicle, October 22, 2020, https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news
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/politics/albany/2020/10/22/andrew-cuomos-book-lands-new-york-times-best-sellers-list/3724407001/. and was awarded an Emmy: Dan Schindel, “Andrew Cuomo Got an Emmy for Literally Just Showing Up,” Hyperallergic, December 8, 2020, https://hyperallergic.com/604761
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/andrew-cuomo-emmy-award-covid-briefings/. Royal Free Hospital in 1998: Jeremy Laurence, “I Was There When Wakefield Dropped His Bombshell
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-cuomos-coronavirus-book-how-many-nursing-home-residents-died-in-new-york. resign or be impeached: Steven W. Thrasher, “Andrew Cuomo Should Resign,” Scientific American, March 4, 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/andrew-cuomo-should-resign/. reportedly sexually harassed eleven women: Report of Investigation into Allegations of Sexual Harassment by Governor Andrew M
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-2/. misled the public to believe: Marina Villeneuve, “New NY Governor Adds 12,000 Deaths to Publicized COVID Tally,” Associated Press, https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-health-coronavirus-pandemic-7312b49695e726eda8d59848e82271c5. “living with it for years”: Steven Thrasher, “The Pet-Death Business,” Village Voice, November 10, 2009, https://www.villagevoice.com/2009
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
by Thomas Frank · 15 Mar 2016 · 316pp · 87,486 words
came up with this program all on their own. Once we start looking, we see this pattern everywhere. In New York State, for example: Governor Andrew Cuomo’s alliance with hedge funds and investment banks is legendary. Financiers support him in his various campaigns; he shows them the love with tax cuts
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school teacher, a figure Cuomo has assailed and berated in numerous ways over the years.* Is there anything toward which the stern-faced, discipline-minded Andrew Cuomo feels tenderly? Why, yes, there is: innovation. Chapter Five of his 2014 campaign book, Moving the New NY Forward (throughout which Cuomo refers to himself
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Bill de Blasio chose to side with taxi drivers, calling for a cap on the number of Uber drivers allowed in the city. But Governor Andrew Cuomo got the last word, forcing de Blasio to back down and saluting Uber as “one of these great inventions, startups, of this new economy … it
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’s offering a great service for people, and it’s giving people jobs.”25 Had Andrew Cuomo chosen to require Uber to play by the existing rules in New York, he could have done so. Had the Federal Trade Commission wished to
Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis
by Johan Norberg · 14 Sep 2009 · 246pp · 74,341 words
poor areas, guaranteed by-Fannie Mae. It's a small world. Cisneros was replaced as housing secretary by the youngest-ever occupant of that post, Andrew Cuomo, son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo. One of his first duties was to set new targets for Fannie's and Freddie's lending
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that are good loans that could be safely purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if these companies were more flexible."22 In July 1999, Andrew Cuomo proposed stricter requirements for Fannie and Freddie. The share of mortgages to be granted to those earning less than the median income in their area
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some time. As it turned out, the allout political effort did not get the subprime market under controlrather, that sector ended up making politics subprime. Andrew Cuomo also opened up the Federal Housing Administration for ever-riskier mortgages. The FHA, which was founded during the New Deal, insures millions of mortgages by
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would not have to pay even that 3 percent out of their own pockets. Such encouragement of subprime mortgages led the Village Voice to designate Andrew Cuomo as "the man who gave birth to the mortgage crisis." Although many politicians were pursuing similar policies because they were close to Fannie and Freddie
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enterprises toward the subprime market. "In hindsight, I would have done it differently."29 But some people in politics have more lives than a cat. Andrew Cuomo has moved on: Since 2006, he is attorney general of New York State, and he is spoken of as a possible governor or senator. The
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combination with state and local governments to encourage owning your own home.' Indeed, the Republicans endorsed virtually all the decisions made by Henry Cisneros and Andrew Cuomo-and upped the ante. Bush designed new federal subsidies for first-time buyers, whom he wanted to be covered by federal insurance even if they
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, and other countries followed suit with bans covering longer periods. Other government agencies also made assaults on speculators. The attorney general of New York State, Andrew Cuomo-whom we already met in his earlier guise as housing secretary in the 1990s, when he did all he could to ensure that noncreditworthy households
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financial regulations; as Fed governor, Ben Bernanke convinced his colleagues to pump up an inflationary bubble to avoid a crisis; as U.S. housing secretary, Andrew Cuomo did all he could to foist mortgages on people who could not afford them. When the bubble burst, Brown, Bernanke, and Cuomo had all moved
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." 22. Day, "HUD Says Mortgage Policies Hurt Blacks." 23. National Mortgage News, "Fannie to Boost Subprime Activities." 24. Holmes, "Fannie Mae Eases Credit." 25. Barrett, "Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie." 26. Stiglitz, Orszag, and Orszag, "Implications of Risk-Based Capital Standard." 27. Duhigg, "Pressured to Take More Risk." 28. Barrett
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, "Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie." 29. Leonnig, "How HUD Mortgage Policy Fed the Crisis." 30. Becker, Stolberg, and Labaton,"White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire." 31.
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Housing Bubble." New York Times, December 19, 2008. Barr, Alistair. "Moody's Downgrades 691 Mortgage-Backed Securities." Market- Watch.com, August 16, 2007. Barrett, Wayne. "Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie: How the Youngest Housing and Development Secretary in History Gave Birth to the Mortgage Crisis." Village Voice, August 5, 2008. Bartiromo
Glock: The Rise of America's Gun
by Paul M. Barrett · 10 Jan 2012 · 249pp · 77,027 words
1999 to organize a class-action suit to be brought on behalf of more than three thousand federally subsidized public housing authorities across the country. Andrew Cuomo, Clinton’s secretary of housing and urban development, said he would lead this audacious litigation unless gun makers came to the negotiating table. Cuomo tried
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shops began selling the company’s products again. The yearlong boycott ended. After the 2000 presidential election finally ended in victory for George W. Bush, Andrew Cuomo left Washington to prepare to run for office in his home state of New York. The new resident of the White House made it clear
I Can't Breathe
by Matt Taibbi · 23 Oct 2017 · 392pp · 112,954 words
if Donovan proceeded, because “the police officers involved are members of his prosecutorial family.” Garnett was playing along so far. When Meyerson mentioned that Governor Andrew Cuomo had refused requests to name a special prosecutor in the case, Garnett parried back, asking him if a special prosecutor would have gotten a different
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cameras as Erica gave a brief speech about the politicians in both parties who by then had walked away from the case. She mentioned Governor Andrew Cuomo and his plan to create an independent prosecutor in police abuse cases, which would be in force for a year before it had to be
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renewed, by a Republican-dominated Assembly. “I’m calling out Andrew Cuomo,” she said. “He’s throwing us scraps! Because he promised the family he would renew the executive order if the legislature didn’t pass it
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