![]() ![]() Cuomo and a new bipartisan partnership in the state Legislature, government dysfunction ended. “In 2011, thanks to the strong leadership of the newly elected Gov. ![]() He remained silent for three years, occasionally penning an op-ed defending his old boss, Governor Andrew Cuomo. He quietly left State Government in 2015, receiving a position with OTG, an airport management and concessions company, where he still works today. He was investigated by then US Attorney Preet Bharara but was never charged. The New York Times reported that Schwartz was accused of aggressively controlling information harmful to Cuomo’s political interests by the Moreland Commission. The Commissioner was disbanded by Cuomo before it could make any difference in ethical wrongdoing by legislators, lobbyists and power brokers in NY State. Schwartz then left White Plains for Albany to serve as Governor David Patterson’s Secretary, and then served as Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top aide until a New York Times story in 2014 linked Schwartz to the containment and eventual closure of the Moreland Commission, a State panel set up by Governor Cuomo to root out corruption in Albany. Prior to that, Schwartz worked at Playland where he was blamed for many of the bad purchases of rides, and deals and agreements that turned out not to be in the best interests of the taxpayers. Many of our long time readers will remember Schwartz from his years in Westchester, serving as former County Executive Andy Spano’s ‘hatched man’, and laying down the law for democrats on the county level for more than a decade in the 2000’s. New York State political operative Larry Schwartz has had nine lives in his years as a connseuir of the ‘dirty politics’ that so many of us have tried to reject. Political Aide OK’d Anti-Semitic Flyer Against Nixon
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