In total, the New York State Comptroller’s Office says Delaware North has more than $49.6 million in open contracts with the state.<\/p>\n
With so much business at stake, and Bill Hochul set to become New York’s first gentleman, some are calling for him to step down from his Delaware North position.<\/p>\n
\nThe conflict of interest exists as long as Bill Hochul is getting paid from this company with such extensive business before the state,” opined Robert Galbraith, senior research analyst at the Public Accountability Initiative. “The decision to carry this blatant conflict of interest into the Governor’s Office is an ignominious start for Kathy Hochul’s administration.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Lt. Gov. Hochul says the concerns are nothing new.<\/p>\n
“People should realize that Bill has been a public servant for 30 years,” Mrs. Hochul said of her husband’s time as a federal prosecutor. “And throughout our 37 years of married life, we’ve both had careers, and we have developed a very strong internal ethics among ourselves about not being involved or discussing each other’s professional work.”<\/p>\n
Not enough, says John Kaehny, executive director of the political watchdog Reinvent Albany. Kaehny specifically took issue with New York prepping to issue coveted sports betting licenses, and the fact that Delaware North is one of the state’s biggest political lobbying spenders.<\/strong><\/p>\n“It’s billions of dollars in gambling activity that New York State regulators have to approve,” Kaehny told Gothamist<\/i>. “Hochul’s husband is actively in a role where he and his firm are lobbying the state of New York for permission to do more gambling business.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York Governor-designate Kathy Hochul (D) is set to assume the office of disgraced Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Aug. 24. She will soon oversee nearly all state-run agencies, including the New York State Gaming Commission. When Lt. Gov. Hochul becomes the state’s top government official — and New York’s first female governor — she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":182660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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