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Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report

by snomad on 8/5/21, 11:18 AM with 269 comments

  • by thepasswordis on 8/5/21, 12:42 PM

    Cuomo also sent thousands of elderly people to their deaths by forcing them back into nursing homes.

    And yes, I mean forcing.

    Do you remember the hospital ship? The field hospitals? Javits center?

    Did you know the hospital ship went home after being almost completely unused? Did you know it treated IN TOTAL 182 people? With a crew of 1200 and 1000 available beds?

    Did you know that javits center never even got remotely close to full? In TOTAL in treated about 1000 patients and had 4000 beds.

    And yet he’s forcing these elderly back into nursing homes because it makes him look in charge, and fuels his idiotic feud he had going with the federal government over who was more leadery. He won an Emmy for it!

    Cuomo should be facing prison. The people who have been helping him cover up killing thousands of elderly people as a political play should as well.

    The fact that he was transferring state employees around so he could kiss them on the cheek and touch their face should get him disgraced and fired. It is absolutely a distraction from the horror he has inflicted upon thousands of people. Imagine him sending your grandmother to her death so that he could look good on television. Absolutely evil.

  • by sandworm101 on 8/5/21, 12:40 PM

    >> Dani Lever — who had worked in Cuomo’s press operation since 2014 but left in August 2020 to join Facebook as a communications manager

    This is the sort of hire that drives me nuts. I'm sure this person is a fully capable communications manager, but what Facebook really purchased was political access. Is it no surprise then that long after beginning work she was doing favors for her former employer? Maintaining a connection to powerful politicians might well have been in her job description.

    >> Prior to joining Cuomo’s office in 2014, Lever worked as a press assistant for President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign and worked in press relations at the Clinton Foundation, among other roles, according to her LinkedIn profile.

    Which is more valuable to Facebook: her skills as a "communication manager" or the fact that she probably has the personal numbers for half of Washington?

    After some quickly googling: she appears to be the daughter of a prominent NYC attorney, which might have something to do with her previous work, as a student, for NY's attorney general. And for NYC's comptroller general. I would have killed for such jobs during law school. She seems to have bounced between them while an undergrad.

    "Lever, who grew up in Quaker Ridge, graduated from [redacted] and the University of Wisconsin-Madison also worked for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, President Obama's 2012 campaign, and Clinton Foundation. She is the daughter of Joel and Debbie Lever of Bradford Road."

    https://scarsdale10583.com/about-joomla/the-project/5776-sca...

    I love that "Bradford Road" reference. That is New England code for an old and well connected family. (The implications of her highschool are just inappropriate and so I redact it.)

  • by slibhb on 8/5/21, 12:54 PM

    The shocking thing about Cuomo is how blatant it all was. Not just the sexual harassment but his character across the board.

    This is a guy who wrote a book about his leadership in the covid pandemic during the covid pandemic. That's like Churchill writing his memoir of World War II during The Blitz.

    We ought to have a culture where someone who behaves like this is laughed out of the building.

  • by sayhar on 8/5/21, 2:39 PM

    First off, Cuomo is terrible. People are right to point to the nursing home problems, but there's even more. Stuff like setting up an "anti-corruption" commission to attack his political foes, then hastily shutting it down when it started investigating him. Many of his close aides being arrested for straight up corruption, etc. He's been flagrantly bad for a long time. (Look up the Moreland commission)

    That said, a communications manager is strongly, hilariously, obviously not a "facebook executive". For one thing, it's an IC position. CM's don't manage people, they "manage" a message. (Source: I worked at FB)

    Please don't let yourself get baited by the literal tabloid that is the Murdoch post.

  • by busymom0 on 8/5/21, 12:31 PM

    Imo, all this Cuomo stuff is a huge distraction from the much bigger elephant in the room which people in power don't want to address.

    Back in March 2020, the American Health Care Association told Cuomo, Wolf, Murphy, Whitmer etc to stop ordering infected patients into nursing homes. The governors ignored the AHCA and removed their own family from nursing homes while forcing others:

    https://archive.is/bP8hz

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1191811

    After this, it turned out Cuomo was also fabricating and lying about the actual nursing home death numbers by 10000.

    Remember the trans Health Secretary Rachel ­Levine from PA (now US Assistant Health Secretary) who took out her own mother from nursing home while pushing covid patients into them:

    https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-m...

    Despite all this, nobody has been held accountable and last month, the DOJ dropped the investigation:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/cuomo-alo...

  • by kwere on 8/5/21, 11:48 AM

    Why Is Cuomo still able to keep Office despite being the incarnation of corrupt politician? Who are his supporters/backers ?

  • by pjc50 on 8/5/21, 11:44 AM

    Do we have another source for this that's slightly less political than the NY post? Possibly a primary one for the AG report in question?

  • by jsnell on 8/5/21, 12:48 PM

    The only link to HN here appears to be the Facebook angle. But from the phrasing in the article, I don't think those "confidental files" had anything to do with Facebook?

  • by discordance on 8/5/21, 3:05 PM

    There is an endless amount of hideous behavior from the folks over at Facebook that we all inevitably hear about.

    I was always puzzled why so few FB employees whistleblow (RSUs aside). That was until I read An Ugly Truth and read about Sonya Ahuja's internal policing tactics. Scary stuff!

    I feel sorry for you all being keylogged and monitored so closely by your employer!

  • by brian_herman on 8/5/21, 1:35 PM

    Why am I not surprised at this at all.

  • by happynacho on 8/5/21, 2:50 PM

    Dems and Big Tech, name a more iconic duo.

  • by cle on 8/5/21, 12:33 PM

    This should highlight why some companies have such strict policies about what you can do outside of work. Like it or not, every extracurricular activity is a potential PR risk, especially in the last few years where reputations and trust can be quickly destroyed based on circumstantial evidence.

  • by muglug on 8/5/21, 12:14 PM

    This is a dumb headline. She wasn’t working in her capacity as a FB exec. She was working as a loyal former aide.

  • by IG_Semmelweiss on 8/5/21, 12:27 PM

    A downside to the cuomo allegations is that cuomo was the only sane voice left protecting nyc, from further mismanagement by diblasio and pals.

    The city mayor is so unpopular that The only thing stopping a recall is that he's going to be leaving office soon.

    Cuomo has got to go for sure, hes now too weak to keep diblasio & pals in check

  • by nova22033 on 8/5/21, 1:10 PM

    as a communications manager

    OMG...this person worked as THE "communication manager" for facebook...everyone knows facebook only has ONE communication manager and she pretty much runs the company...

    This is guilt by loose association...Typical NYPOST/Murdoch crap..