Never one to allow something as monstrous as a sex crime charge or as wretched as pubic disgrace to interfere with receiving copious amounts of cash, former New York governor and debauched Democrat Andrew Cuomo last month began collecting a monthly state pension check in the amount of $4,219.11.
Cuomo’s annual pension benefits total $50,629.32, which he will receive for the rest of his life, reported the Niagara Gazette. In Cuomo’s last full year of state service, back when he was leading senior citizens to their deaths in nursing homes, his annual pay stood at $225,000.
In addition to the nearly $51,000 annual pension total, Cuomo will also receive a 1.4 percent cost of living increase every year.
“Only in New York could you kill thousands of seniors, cover it up and get paid handsomely to do it,” said Tracey Alvino, whose dad was infected with COVID-19 in a Long Island nursing home and later died, according to the New York Post.
“Cuomo absolutely should not get a pension,” said Alvino, who previously called Cuomo’s controversial $5.1 million COVID book deal “blood money.”
Ironically, Cuomo received the first payment of pension loot one week after a state ethics panel found he used government resources and property, including governor’s executive staff, to write, publish and promote his bogus book. The ethics panel rescinded approval it gave Cuomo to publish the book, reported Axios, requiring him to reapply for authorization or lose part or all of the $5.1 million book deal.
But he’s still in line to receive that state’s sweet pension, which is not likely to change.
Under current New York state law, neither resignation or impeachment for alleged misconduct bars eligibility from obtaining a pension for state service. Only a felony conviction can stop the gravy train.
“So if you’re wondering, without a felony conviction and several other steps, Cuomo would be eligible for his full pension, at taxpayer expense, for the rest of his life,” said Tim Hoefer, president and CEO of the Empire Center for Public Policy.
