State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has rejected a request to conduct a sweeping audit of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office despite the disclosure that corrupt former Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco made numerous calls from the governor’s Manhattan quarters while running his re-election campaign in 2014.
Using government resources for campaign purposes is illegal.
The audit request was filed by Republican candidate for governor Marc Molinaro, and quickly shot down by DiNapoli.
“The circumstances prompting your request to the OSC [Office of the State Comptroller] — the disclosure of facts at Mr. Percoco’s criminal trial about his having made over 800 phone calls from state offices on 68 separate days — present factors that make it inappropriate for the OSC to commence the requested…
