Even a big job like being governor of New York must seem like a bit of a let-down after leaving the glamorous job of being New York attorney general. Andrew Cuomo and Eliot Spitzer both ascended to the state’s highest office on strength of the popular support that they generated for themselves while bringing law suits against Wall Street’s major financial institutions, especially its banks.
Governor Cuomo’s cure for the separation anxiety he is suffering in the wake of his departure as attorney general is to usurp for himself much of the power exercised by the attorney general’s office. To this end, Mr. Cuomo’s new budget contemplates forcing the current attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, to share power with a huge new bureaucracy that would be under Mr. Cuomo’s control in the executive branch.
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