***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** On Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpe... Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps Follow Assembly Member Ron Kim: https://twitter.com/rontkim KIM’S STATEMENT ON DEMANDING TRUE TRANSPARENCY FROM NEXT GOVERNOR New York, NY— Today, Assemblymember Ron Kim issued the following statement on the need for true transparency from Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul: “This past weekend, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul appeared on Face the Nation and spoke about transparency and collaboration when asked what the public could expect from her administration. If she is true to her word, her administration must not allow any commissioner or government employees implicated in his deplorable behavior, including those responsible for covering up nursing home data or altering COVID-19 death statistics. In order to ensure real transparency, we ask that the Lieutenant Governor commit to the following: 1. Handing over all nursing home data from the Department of Health and individual Nursing Home facilities, in addition to all communications between Dr. Zucker’s Department of Health and the McKinsey Global Consulting Group. 2. A full pledge that her executive office will comply with FOIL requests from the legislature, the public, and members of the press without stalling. 3. Full, transparent compliance by her state commissioners and executive leadership at future oversight hearings with answering questions under oath. We have a small window to assure the public that we are clearing out the corrupt vestiges of the former administration and holding all accountable for their actions. Let’s use it.” Assemblymember Kim’s full list of concerns can be viewed here: https://www.newsweek.com/10-questions... Follow Pramilla Malick https://twitter.com/PramillaSMalick www.protectorangecounty.org https://www.facebook.com/protectorang... Sign the Petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/b... Important Facts about the CPV Powerplant and Cuomo's connection: 1-CPV, competitive power ventures builds fracked gas plants around the country which gives the entire climate killing fracking enterprise a massive national market. They are part of GE. They, along with their lobbyists have been one of Cuomo's single biggest donors and they began donating to him when he was running for AG. Their objective was to get permits for a fracked gas power plant in Orange County to serve NYC which had been outright rejected (to other companies) under previous administrations. 2-The company executive along with Joe Percoco Cuomo's very close aide were both indicted in 2016 by Preet Bharara and convicted in 2018 for bribery.The trial testimony indicated that everyone close to Cuomo helped CPV (all agency heads) and IMO it is impossible that Cuomo was not involved in the corruption. The favors given to the company span 8 years and include environmental permits that violate state & federal law, emissions credits (permission to pollute) and to "shape NY state's energy policy" (close Indian Point plug in CPV-this was part of indictment and trial testimony.) They currently are the only power plant in the country operating without a federal Title V air permit pursuant to the Clean Air Act. 3-Within days of the conviction Republican state senator John Bonacic who was also involved in corruption, resigned and moved out of the state. (his son was attorney for the company while the father was facilitating permits). But the democratic state legislature still did not want to investigate. 4-The media and the political establishment largely covered up the corruption story and even today coverage of Percoco's conviction never mention CPV though they paid 290K of the 315K bribery monies he received. Chair of oversight James Skoufis along with my former opponent Jen Metzger promised investigative hearings but the media killed the story and both went silent. Jamie and I personally met with Skoufis and gave him documents implicating Cuomo and many other individuals, including company execs. 5-CPV is tied to both Cuomo and Trump. CPV lobbyists donated to both. CPV helped Cuomo win in 2010. Roger Stone publicly took credit for the fall of Schneiderman which brought Cuomo to power. Stone was part of notorious lobbying firm Black Manafort Stone and Kelly. Kelly's son was the CPV exec that was convicted along with Percoco. CPV exec sat on Trump's economic advisory team. Kelly senior was chair of fundraising for DNC for yrs and very close to Clintons