Who Is Pulling Andrew Cuomo’s Strings?
Pro-Cuomo super PAC Fix the City
Includes real estate and charter school billionaires.
Dan Tishman - Largest Cuomo Donor
Real Estate Tycoon
Comes from a dynasty of real estate giants in New York City that have made the City more unaffordable and pushed the interests of the ultra-wealthy over working-class New Yorkers and renters
Major donor to REBNY PAC, which advocates for landlords and the real estate industry. Tishman donated over $250,000 to REBNY PAC between 2007 to 2018, is a member of REBNY Board of Governors and past Chair from 2014 to 2017
Received millions of dollars in contracts through his company AECOM Tishman; served as the Chair of Cuomo’s airport renovations committee and received a massive contract for JFK airport renovations
Tishman Construction was forced to pay $20 million settlement as a result of a federal case charging the company with fraudulent overbilling practices
Chair of the Board of Montefiore Medicine
Another almost $200,000 in donations to Cuomo through his wife Sheryl Tishman
Connected to Robert Speyer and Jerry Speyer of Tishman Spyer…
Rob and Jerry Speyer are also both major Cuomo donors, as well sa Tishman Speyer Development itself
Tishman Spyer, alongside REBNY, killed a bill that would have made it easier for New Yorkers to know who own their buildings (LLC Transparency Act)
Tishman Spyer is the fourth largest owner of real estate in New York City and the largest recipient of property tax exemptions under the 421a program in New York City which REBNY and the real estate industry heavily lobbied to maintain and directly impacting investments in our public services (421a expired in 2022 and was replaced by 485x.
Tishman Spyer was a key donor to the Committee to Save New York, which under Governor Cuomo’s administration advocated for billions in tax loopholes for billionaires and corporations, unaccountable corporate subsidies, and profitable real estate deals
Marc Kasowitz - Trump Lawyer’s Firm Second Largest Donor to Cuomo
Kasowitz represented Donald Trump in many cases over the last decades, including bankruptcies, divorce settlements, Russian election meddling probe
Kasowitz is also an individual donor to Cuomo and has contributed $35,000 over time
Kasowitz represented the New York State Legislature in front of Cuomo’s anti-corruption Moreland Ethics Commission. As the attorney, he rejected the Commission’s request for disclosures on certain clients—and Cuomo ultimately disbanded the commission for investigating allies.
Eva Moskowitz - Success Academy Executive’s Charter Schools PAC Major Donor to Cuomo
Great Public Schools PAC has donated almost $200,000 to Cuomo.
Resulted in a pro-charter approach from Cuomo, including increasing funding for charter schools and raising caps.
Moskowitz was at the center of a fight between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Cuomo. When de Blasio tried to get charter schools to, for example, pay rent to operate in public school and city-owned buildings, Cuomo fought him and won a deal described as the most “sweeping protections” for charter schools in the nation
Right-wing Manhattan Institute award-winner for her opposition to public schools
HANYS PAC - Major Healthcare Executive PAC Top Donors to Cuomo
Chair of the PAC is Kenneth Gibbs, CEO of Maimonides Health; Board of Directors and major donors are filled with hospital executives from across the state
Connections to David Rich, major Cuomo donor and in-house lobbyist for Greater Hospital Association of NY…
In-house lobbyist for Greater Hospital Association of NY, David Rich, is also a major donor to Cuomo
Buffalo Billions
Crystal Run Nursing Home/nursing homes
→ releasing nursing homes from liability from deaths that happened
→ deaths during covid at Crystal Run?
Guidehouse – rent relief scams