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  Cuomo makes a name for himself in replacing Spitzer - USATODAY.com
Cuomo has attacked revenue-sharing deals between lenders and colleges and other practices that he says amount to student-loan abuses.
Cuomo has said he's proud to have reduced fraud and waste at the agency; critics contended at the time that he didn't act quickly or decisively enough to combat those problems.
By Mike Groll, AP Andrew Cuomo is creating headlines of his own since succeeding Eliot Spitzer as New York's attorney general.
www.usatoday.com /money/industries/banking/2007-04-24-cuomo-usat_N.htm   (949 words)

  
  Andrew Cuomo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957, in New York City) was the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton between 1997 and 2001.
Cuomo is the elder son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, whose younger son is ABC News journalist Chris Cuomo.
Cuomo was appointed to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1993, as a member of President Bill Clinton's administration.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Cuomo   (590 words)

  
 Andrew Cuomo, Turnaround CEO
Andrew Cuomo, the 40-year-old secretary of housing and urban development (HUD), and the heir to one of liberalism's most famous names, is asking himself these questions as he pursues one of Washington's most daunting challenges: proving that the HUD bureaucracy can convert good intentions into concrete results.
Cuomo has sought advice from change guru James Champy, coauthor with Michael Hammer of Reengineering the Corporation (HarperCollins, 1993); screened Tom Peters videos for his senior staff; and hired Gensler, one of the world's most influential architecture and design firms, to change - literally - the face of HUD.
Andrew Cuomo is already being touted as a possible Senate candidate and even as a potential running mate for Al Gore in 2000.
www.fastcompany.com /magazine/14/changeagent.html   (1060 words)

  
 The New York Observer Politicker: Andrew Cuomo Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Andrew Cuomo's campaign got an assist today from toughbox prosecutor Leslie Crocker Snyder, who bashed Jeanine Pirro for her refusal to revisit the case of a Westchester inmate later freed on DNA evidence.
Andrew Cuomo is pulling out all the stops to fend off the challenges on the credibility of his public record.
Andrew Cuomo could have been a victim of this rule in 2002 (he bypassed the convention and went straight to petitioning) when he ran against Carl McCall for the gubernatorial nomination.
thepoliticker.observer.com /andrew_cuomo   (4431 words)

  
 Andrew Cuomo's attitude problem - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cuomo, after all, was a loyal Cabinet secretary during the Clinton administration, yet few of his former colleagues supported his campaign.
Cuomo was that to a sizable number of voters he seemed like an asshole.
Early in the campaign, Cuomo "had such a reputation -- both negative and positive -- as the guy who would run through fire to get elected," the officeholder said, that people were intrigued by the notion of his candidacy.
dir.salon.com /story/politics/feature/2002/09/03/cuomo/email.html?pn=2   (1459 words)

  
 Andrew M. Cuomo News - The New York Times
Andrew M. Cuomo mounted a political comeback in 2006 to become New York State’s attorney general and, in the process, restored his family name as a force in state politics.
Cuomo, born on Dec. 6, 1957, is the son of former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, and he served as the federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton.
Andrew Cuomo took the reins of an attorney general’s office that had gained national renown under Eliot Spitzer for investigating Wall Street corruption.
topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/people/c/andrew_m_cuomo/index.html?inline=nyt-per   (1020 words)

  
 Realty Times - Real Estate News and Advice
Cuomo knows better than anyone that the perception of power is almost as good as actual power, and he works hard to generate that perception using the oldest trick in Washington: acting like a prima donna.
Cuomo is famous for holding press events with pomp and circumstance befitting a foreign dignitary, and for refusing to take the podium at luncheon speeches until every plate and fork has been cleared away.
Recent rumors have Cuomo positioning himself to be Gore's running mate, but despite being married to a Kennedy, a vice-presidential nomination would be a tall order for Cuomo: he brings nothing to the ticket demographically or geographically, and he has never held elective office.
realtytimes.com /rtcpages/19990312_cuomo.htm   (784 words)

  
 CNN - Sec. Andrew Cuomo - August 15, 2000
Andrew Cuomo: I think the Convention is making an excellent presentation because, frankly, they have the facts on their side.
Andrew Cuomo: I think the best way to improve housing is to get people fully employed to the point where they don't need any housing subsidies but can provide housing from their own income.
Andrew Cuomo: The way the Section VIII public housing works is everybody pays one-third of their income for rent, and HUD subsidizes the difference.
edition.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/8/15/cuomo   (1010 words)

  
 NY1: Top Stories
Cuomo endorsed the McCall ticket and called on his supporters to cast their ballots for his rival of over two years.
Cuomo, 22 points behind McCall in the latest poll, released Tuesday morning, said at a press conference this afternoon that he decided to step aside rather go negative, which his aides told him was his only chance to close the gap.
Cuomo’s first doubts about his campaign may have surfaced 10 days ago, when he admitted he thought his opponent’s ads were better than his.
www.ny1.com /ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1&subtopicintid=1&contentintid=24046   (938 words)

  
 Andrew Cuomo | The New York Observer
Andrew Cuomo made it clear today that he will be holding former and current M.T.A. board members "personally responsible" for using free E-ZPass tags he says are illegal, although he noted that there is a limit on how far back back the probe will reach.
Andrew Cuomo just held a press conference about an agreement he brokered with major internet providers to get them to block access to websites featuring child pornography.
Andrew Cuomo just announced he’s creating a new position in his office to fight intellectual property theft like pirating movies,which Cuomo called the “new high-tech form of organized crime in the State of New York.”
www.observer.com /people/andrew-cuomo   (870 words)

  
 THE DEMOCRATS: Son of Mario - Andrew Cuomo National Review - Find Articles
Cuomo obviously wants it, it is well within his grasp, and his father is bursting for him to have it.
Cuomo is notorious among reporters for going to unusual lengths to control any coverage of his activities.
Cuomo called for "a new war on poverty," to be waged by a private-public partnership.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_6_52/ai_60137471   (939 words)

  
 usnews.com: Opinion: Michael Barone on Andrew Cuomo's withdrawal from the race for governor of New York (9/5/02)
Cuomo had been campaigning for more than a year and had raised millions of dollars, and he said he had $3 million available for the last week of advertising.
Cuomo said he was dropping out because the only way he could prevail was by running a negative campaign against McCall–and he just wouldn't do that.
Cuomo's candidacy was really over last spring when he quipped to an upstate audience that George Pataki simply "held the leader's coat" when he stood beside Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on and after September 11.
www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/baroneweb/mb_020905.htm   (798 words)

  
 PoliticsNY.com
New York, NY " Andrew Cuomo, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Democratic candidate for Governor, today unveiled a jobs tax credit proposal as part of his economic development plan to help New York's economy.
Through Andrew Cuomo's job tax credit, any business that creates a job with an annual salary of at least $28,000 and provides at least 50%-subsidized health insurance for all employees will be eligible for a rebate of up to 80% of the amount of personal income tax withheld on this newly created job.
Andrew Cuomo's jobs tax credit will provide tax incentives to all businesses that create quality jobs anywhere in the State of New York.
www.politicsny.com /releases/august/8-27-02-cuomo.shtml   (1079 words)

  
 The Daily Politics - NY Daily News
AG Andrew Cuomo took a moment after a press conference this morning to fondly recall Tim Russert, with whom he worked in Albany during the first gubernatorial term of his father, Mario Cuomo, in the early 1980s.
Cuomo called Russert's abrupt death last week "tragic." Mario Cuomo was scheduled to eulogize Russert at his funeral in Washington, D.C. today, which was attended by a host of elected officials, including Gov. David Paterson.
Andrew Cuomo was in Albany to announce another round of settlements in his ongoing probe of double-dipping in the state pension fund.
www.nydailynews.com /blogs/dailypolitics/andrew-cuomo   (4106 words)

  
 wcbstv.com - Rochester Mayor Endorses Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo said hunters and sportsmen aren't causing gun violence in New York state.
Cuomo said as attorney general he'd seek to ban sale of armor-piercing bullets and work to have bullets sold in New York stamped with identifiers so the purchasers could be tracked.
The son of former Governor Mario Cuomo is in a four-way race for the Democratic nomination.
wcbstv.com /local/local_story_208143938.html   (221 words)

  
 Empire Information Services: News Story   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cuomo joined the elected officials and students at Binghamton University to discuss his "Project Sunlight" proposal -- the first ever comprehensive integrated public integrity statewide Internet database tracking donors, lobbyists, special interests, state contracts and elected officials, and the links between them.
Andrew's plan calls for public financing of elections, campaign spending limits and limits on the amounts of donations.
President Clinton called Cuomo's effort "one of the most dramatic and successful reforms of a federal agency in modern US history." When Congress was threatening to eliminate the entire department, President Clinton appointed Cuomo to turn around the agency by exposing the fraud, cracking down on the abuse and cleaning up our federal housing system.
www.eisinc.com /release/storiesh/ACUOMO.020.html   (1996 words)

  
 Spin Cycle: Andrew Cuomo Archives
For his part, however, Cuomo said yesterday of the dual role he’s assumed as prosecutor and system fixer: “I call this the definition of the attorney general’s office.” He stressed that no specifics of potential criminal cases were discussed at the hearing.
AG Andrew Cuomo has named two legal veterans -- former Manhattan US Atty and Whitewater special counsel Robert Fiske (he was replaced by Starr) and former Knapp Commission chief counsel Michael Armstrong -- as special advisers in his probe of allegations that the state police have engaged in political activity.
When Gov. Spitzer and AG Cuomo announced yesterday that they were opposing the relicensing of Indian point, we called the office of the current governor (Spitzer) to ask how he would replace the 2000 megawatts of electricity it produces.
weblogs.newsday.com /news/local/longisland/politics/blog/andrew_cuomo   (4997 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Cuomos, father and son, "reborn" in New York
Andrew Cuomo's victory over Republican Jeanine Pirro in the race for New York State attorney general represents a political resurrection not only for him but also for his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, experts said.
Twelve years after the elder Cuomo was dumped by voters and four years after his son's own gubernatorial bid ended in a flameout, both men now are basking in the adoration of Democrats and others.
Andrew Cuomo took the stage beaming to the music, "Ain't No Stopping Us Now," blowing a kiss to his supporters at Democrat headquarters in Manhattan.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003366211_cuomo08.html   (532 words)

  
 News Copy, New York: Andrew Cuomo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Andrew Cuomo and Mark Green, Democrat candidates for the NYS Attorney General's nomination, came out swinging and pounding one another yesterday in their final debate before Primary Day next Tuesday.
Mark Green openly accused front-runner Andrew Cuomo of "poisoning children" as head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development because pesticides were used by some government workers to combat bugs and weeds.
Cuomo is holding a 51-31 percent lead against Republican Jeanine Pirro and Green leading the former Westchester County District Attorney, 47-16 percent.
www.newscopy.org /andrew_cuomo   (7351 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Crossroads: the Future of American Politics: Books: Andrew Cuomo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With the United States standing as the world's lone superpower and its two competing parties locked in eternal squabble, former HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo has gathered together several notables to offer their visions of where America goes next.
Cuomo, former secretary of housing and urban development, intends for these three dozen-plus essays to provide a road map for bringing the Democratic Party back to prominence.
The essayists include most of the current Democratic candidates for president, a number of academics who analyze political trends, Republicans eager to share their views on what is wrong with the Democratic Party and, for good measure, several outside-the-box contributors such as hip-hop eminences Sean "P.Diddy" Combs and Russell Simmons.
www.amazon.ca /Crossroads-American-Politics-Andrew-Cuomo/dp/1400061458   (634 words)

  
 Unanswered Questions about Andrew Cuomo
In this article, she discloses extremely disturbing facts about former HUD Secretary, Andrew Cuomo—how he came to power and the ways in which he and his associates may have benefited from 9/11.
Cuomo’s reign at HUD was not the first time that HUD had been run by a New Yorker with ambitions for higher office.
One of the chief beneficiaries of Cuomo’s ascendancy to Secretary and the subsequent cancellation of the loan sales were the developers, owners and managers of apartment buildings that were subsidized by HUD and often financed through FHA and Ginnie Mae.
www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/092106_about_cuomo.shtml   (4981 words)

  
 Andrew Cuomo's Vendetta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Cuomo's use of HUD's public affairs office to undercut Gaffney is consistent with his attempts not to leave any fingerprints on the campaign against her.
Cuomo's attitude toward Gaffney was never quite the same after this, but after he was nominated for the top job in the department, he tried to make amends.
In one conversation, Cuomo told her all of the department's principal staff hated her and she was responsible for HUD's being "dysfunctional." She later told him none of the assistant secretaries she'd queried had any complaints with her performance as inspector general, but Cuomo replied that they were lying to her.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/748016/posts   (4341 words)

  
 Gun Control Hall of Fame: Andrew Cuomo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Andrew M. Cuomo is the 11th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), unanimously confirmed by the Senate in January 1997.
Andrew comes from a family tradition of gun control as the son of long-time Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo also takes an interest in government education programs, condemning the shooting of a little white girl, by a little fl boy at a government school.
vikingphoenix.com /public/gchof/acuomo.htm   (756 words)

  
 Andrew Cuomo Quits N.Y. Race - CBS News
Cuomo encouraged all his supporters to follow him in backing McCall, saying it was time for party unity.
Cuomo was roundly criticized for the remarks; even his father later said it had been a political mistake.
Cuomo also stunned Democrats last May when he turned his back on state party leaders by dropping out of the state convention on its opening day.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/09/03/politics/main520606.shtml   (961 words)

  
 The Name of the Father - Andrew Cuomo Has a Lot to Live Up to and Live Down in His Race for Attorney General -- New ...
In his race for attorney general, Andrew Cuomo has as much to live down as he does to live up to.
Cuomo, looking puzzled, points to the belt in question, which is secured across his shoulder.
Cuomo moves toward the glove compartment and discovers he can’t reach it.
www.newyorkmetro.com /news/politics/16462/index.html   (779 words)

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