With Andrew Cuomo back in the headlines regarding his burying the investigation into Weinstein while receiving campaign contributions from him…. here's a reminder:
Andrew Cuomo as NYAG ignored complaints that NXIVM acquired a child in 2010
WHILE GETTING CAMPAIGN DONATIONS FROM THE BRONFMAN FAMILY
sauce: https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/NXIVM-critic-s-plea-over-child-gets-little-action-600579.php
ALBANY – A major critic of the leaders of a Colonie-based organization that litigants describe as a cult is blasting Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for disregarding warnings about alleged misdeeds and suspicious activities, such as members acquiring and instructing a child.
Attorney Joseph J. O'Hara said Cuomo's office has shown little interest in complaint letters he sent in June and July. The letters urged Cuomo, who is running as a Democrat for governor, to take a look at NXIVM and some of its top loyalists and underwriters, including the wealthy sisters Clare and Sara Bronfman, who live in the Capital Region. In the letters, O'Hara alleged they misused foundation money to benefit NXIVM leader Keith Raniere of Clifton Park.
O'Hara told Cuomo, whose office oversees charities, that tax-exempt foundation funds were used to buy Raniere an expensive piano and to pay for nannies helping to raise a child named Gaelen who is being raised through a novel Raniere education program. The 3-year-old child is living in Clifton Park with a NXIVM devotee who is not his biological mother. The child, according to former NXIVM officials, was obtained by a NXIVM student in Michigan and brought back to Saratoga County to live among a cluster of townhouses where NXIVM students and instructors live.
NXIVM, which operates a self-awareness training regime called Executive Success Programs from its Colonie headquarters, follows Raniere's philosophical teachings of looking at life from a new ethical perspective in which people are either parasites or producers.
O'Hara, in an interview, said he has urged Cuomo to investigate twice in recent months because of his growing concerns that NXIVM officials are raising the boy in a way that could cause him harm.
O'Hara, who worked for NXIVM officials several years ago, implies that Cuomo, who has received considerable campaign donations from the Bronfman family, is not eager to investigate for political reasons. "I understand why anyone who is running for office would be reluctant to investigate the members of a family as wealthy and as influential as the Bronfman family," he said. "It seems to me, however, that Gaelen's safety is much more important than any political considerations."
A person in the attorney general's office said a review was started after receiving O'Hara's letter. A person familiar with the attorney general's office said that Cuomo's representative has reached out to officials with the Bronfman-led foundation regarding the use of charitable assets and its registration status.