For the past few months, Donald Trump’s presidency has been roiled by the ongoing scandal over his intimate, yearslong friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. But he’s not the only prominent New York politician with potentially embarrassing links to the billionaire pedophile and sex trafficker. Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo has his own, too.
Cuomo’s links to Epstein were recently highlighted by his opponent for the New York mayor’s office, Zohran Mamdani, in a campaign video that brought up his private consulting work. Mamdani pointed to Epstein’s 2007 real estate deal in the Virgin Islands — where Epstein owned the infamous private island that he would allegedly carry out some of his abuse on — with department store scion Andrew Farkas, whose nonprofit Epstein also donated generously to. In light of this, Cuomo’s own relationship to Farkas has raised eyebrows: the two began a lucrative friendship in the 2000s that saw the property developer hire Cuomo to the tune of more than $2.5 million, before serving as the finance chairman for his attorney general run and donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaigns.
The Farkas case is only one of many examples of those around and supporting Cuomo having troubling ties to the deceased pedophile. Cuomo was himself famously personally listed in Epstein’s “little black book,” together with his then wife, Kerry Kennedy. This is, by itself, not necessarily damning. But over the course of his political career, Cuomo has counted as allies, donors, associates, and friends — sometimes all of the above — a number of figures who have been closely connected to Epstein.
Cuomo has not been accused of any sexual misconduct connected to Epstein or involving minors — his…
Auteur: Branko Marcetic
