Andrew Cuomo’s governorship has been defined by cruel behavior that disguised chronic mismanagement. Why was that celebrated for so long? @rtraister reports nym.ag/2PYF8wT 
One year after Cuomo began his star turn as “America’s Governor,” his third term in office is suddenly deeply imperiled. The venal toxicity that has buttressed his political career has, at least temporarily, been exposed for what it is nym.ag/2PYF8wT
The multiple scandals erupting in Albany seem to toggle between sexualized harassment stories and evidence of mismanagement, but what is emerging is in fact a single story, writes @rtraister nym.ag/2PYF8wT
Cuomo's tough-guy routine has obscured governing failures nym.ag/2PYF8wT
Interviews with dozens of former Cuomo employees and those who have worked with or adjacent to his administration reveal a governing institution that has been run, at times, like a cultish fraternity, and at others, a high-school clique nym.ag/2PYF8wT
.@rtraister's reporting reveals a state executive chamber in which the maintenance of power, performance of pecking orders, and pursuit of competitive resentments matter as much as policy nym.ag/2PYF8wT
Cuomo regularly has people yell for him, including a phalanx of senior women whom he uses as a defensive feminist shield. Many of the women high up in Cuomo’s employ repeat and amplify the kinds of abuses that begin with the boss nym.ag/2PYF8wT
Texts sent from Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa to State Senator Alessandra Biaggi demonstrate a culture of bullying and harassment nym.ag/2PYF8wT
We are witnessing, after a year of meteoric rise, the extraordinary, crashing two-month fall of a man whose power, for a decade, has been almost total. @rtraister reports nym.ag/2PYF8wT
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