Cuomo Tried Dumping Hochul into Biden Administration Before 2022 Election
While the Empire State is now thankfully rid of their grope-y ex governor Andrew Cuomo, it certainly appears as though some of the dirtier tricks that he employed are still being uncovered.
Cuomo resigned, reluctantly, after being credibly accused of sexual assault and harassment by nearly a dozen women, many of whom were within his immediate career path. Â But, before that scandal came surging to the top of the American political landscape, Cuomo was trying to ditch his Lieutenant Governor ahead of the 2022 election.
Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded a plum job as a US ambassador or undersecretary of commerce in exchange for being replaced as Andrew Cuomo’s 2022 running mate — before he was forced to resign as governor over sexual harassment allegations, sources told The Post on Thursday.
Advertisement - story continues belowTop Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa reached out to the White House in January to try to score then-Lt. Gov. Hochul a diplomatic posting to her ancestral homeland of Ireland or to Canada, sources said.
The US Embassy to Canada is located in Ottawa, which is less than a six-hour drive from Hochul’s hometown of Buffalo.
But, hilariously…
But officials in President Biden’s new administration “laughed us out of the room” when Cuomo’s people asked that she be nominated, one source said.
Advertisement - story continues belowThe White House made a counter-offer of “an undersecretary role” for Hochul and she agreed to work in the Commerce Department, the source said.
Cuomo’s sexual assault scandal sidelined the conversations from there, and Hochul would eventually take the role of interim Governor of New York when he resigned.