{"id":641307,"date":"2021-08-13T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T19:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=641307"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T19:06:24","slug":"new-york-assembly-suspends-cuomo-impeachment-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-assembly-suspends-cuomo-impeachment-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Assembly Suspends Cuomo Impeachment Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-assembly-suspends-cuomo-impeachment-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=641307&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/open-graph-fallback.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>By Jonathan Allen<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (Reuters)\u2014Lawmakers in the New York Assembly have suspended their impeachment investigation of Governor Andrew<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Cuomo&nbsp;<\/span>in light of his promise to step down from office over sexual harassment complaints, Speaker Carl Heastie said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly, controlled by<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Cuomo<\/span>\u2018s fellow Democrats, opened the impeachment investigation in March after at least two women who formerly worked for the governor went public with complaints that<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Cuomo&nbsp;<\/span>had sexually harassed them.<\/p>\n<p>A damning report released this month by the state&#8217;s attorney general concluded<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Cuomo&nbsp;<\/span>had broken state and federal law by harassing at least 11 women, including aides and a state trooper.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Cuomo&nbsp;<\/span>said on Tuesday he would resign and leave office in two weeks. He has denied complaints of groping and other wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Heastie gave two reasons for ending the impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, the purpose of the Assembly Judiciary Committee\u2019s impeachment investigation was to determine whether Governor<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Cuomo&nbsp;<\/span>should remain in office,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;The governor&#8217;s resignation answers that directive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, lawmakers had been advised by legal counsel that the state&#8217;s constitution does not allow the legislature to impeach and remove an elected official who is no longer in office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dont-say-goodbye-to-cuomo-just-yet\/\"><strong>READ MORE: Don\u2019t Say Goodbye to Cuomo Just Yet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters)\u2014Lawmakers in the New York Assembly have suspended their impeachment investigation of Governor Andrew\u00a0Cuomo\u00a0in light of his promise to step down from office over sexual &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}