Percoco -- or -- How the US Attorney Finally Gets Andrew Cuomo

The indictment of a senior aide to NY governor Andrew Cuomo is just the latest step in the fight against corruption in the Empire State by the US Attorney for the Southern District of NY.  The last two years have seen the indictment and conviction of the Speaker of the Assembly, a Democrat, and the Majority Leader of the State Senate, a Republican.  Both went down on corruption charges.  They are two of the three people who ran NY for years.  The third is the governor who has been the subject of an ongoing investigation by the feds.  With the indictment of Percoco, a senior Cuomo aide, the feds have gotten leverage over someone who could flip and bring down the governor.

For many people who understand New York politics, the question is not if Cuomo is corrupt, but rather whether or not he will get caught.  We could be watching the latest step in that process.