“We had been told that everything that had risen up had been addressed, everything was clean, and that’s what we were told [in] the process,' Governor Hochul said about former Lt. Governor Brian Benjamin a day after he resigned amid a bribery scandal.
Governor Kathy Hochul says she was told her former lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, was "clean."Governor Kathy Hochul says she was told her former lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, was "clean."New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she believed Brian Benjamin was “clean” based on the state's vetting process before she appointed him lieutenant governor last summer, less than eight months before he resigned amid a bribery scandal.
“Clearly there would have been a different outcome had we been aware of that,” Hochul said on WNYC. “I think that's pretty much a given.”"Related to activities that came prior to his becoming lieutenant governor, I had became aware there had questioning but that we were not involved, that it was going to be resolved," she said.
“Gov. Hochul is completely out of step with the priorities of New Yorkers today,” Suozzi said. “People are concerned about crime, taxes and affordability, and they're concerned about the corruption in Albany.”
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