Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigation met briefly Wednesday before going into a lengthy executive session. And some are not happy with the pace of the probe into allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Assemblyman Charles Lavine, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, says he's pleased with the progress to this point and looks forward to have the firm handling the investigation update the committee. "Davis, Wolk and Woolward has conducted additional interviews and compiled additional documents since the last meeting," says Lavine, adding the firm has conducted 75 interviews to date.
"Davis Wolk continues to pursue follow up interviews and additional interviews with new witnesses," says Lavine. "Davis Wolk has taken steps to make sure relevant evidence is being secured." He says the purpose is to gather and determine relevance and credibility of witnesses.
Attorney Paul Cambria believes there are two reasons why the investigation is moving slowly.
"Number one, if I were the people on the judiciary committee, I'd be dragging to see what the attorney general says as there's a parallel investigation going on," explains Cambria.
"The other is politics. The governor's party controls the legislature, so you would suspect they're moving these slowly. Maybe with the anticipation the attorney general is going to find nothing wrong from the standpoint of the governor perhaps other than bad manners."
Cambria believes those in control "don't care" about critics saying the pace is too slow. "They have their agenda, they're in control. To give them credit, they could be proceeding slowly because they will investigate, and they'll wait for other agencies to finish their investigations," says Cambria.
Cambria believes nothing will happen until the attorney general does the report on the Cuomo probe.
