City Comptroller Brad Lander went after his biggest rival in the 2025 NYC mayor’s race, Andrew Cuomo, over the escalating cost in state taxpayer dollars spent defending the former governor in a litany of lawsuits connected to scandals nearly four years after Cuomo resigned.
Lander, during a Monday morning Manhattan news conference, charged that Cuomo let New York state fecklessly spend far more than previously reported to defend him in lawsuits brought by some of the roughly a dozen women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. He argued that the millions of dollars in legal expenses were a misuse of taxpayer dollars and further called on Cuomo to commit to picking up his own legal tab going forward.
