Post by Logan on May 7, 2016 6:48:36 GMT -6
Cuomo Loyalist With Troubled Finances Is at Center of U.S. Inquiry
“Why does that not surprise me?” Steve Klitsch, a contractor who sued Mr. Howe over an unpaid kitchen renovation bill for his $2.1 million Potomac home, said upon learning that Mr. Howe was involved in a federal inquiry. “I guess he’s now really gone big time.”
Mr. Howe did not return messages seeking comment. A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, declined to comment on the governor’s relationship with Mr. Howe.
His is a past littered with erratic behavior and litigation. In 2002, a bank sued Mr. Howe and his wife for failing to pay back a $90,000 home equity loan. In 2010, he was prosecuted for failing to return a rental car, a felony. He has had his wages garnished to pay off judgments in at least four cases. Over the past 11 years, he was ordered to pay nearly $15,000 to two tree landscaping companies alone.
All the while, his route through Albany and Washington kept intersecting with that of Mr. Cuomo and his inner circle.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/nyregion/cuomo-loyalist-with-troubled-finances-is-at-center-of-us-inquiry.html
“Why does that not surprise me?” Steve Klitsch, a contractor who sued Mr. Howe over an unpaid kitchen renovation bill for his $2.1 million Potomac home, said upon learning that Mr. Howe was involved in a federal inquiry. “I guess he’s now really gone big time.”
Mr. Howe did not return messages seeking comment. A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, declined to comment on the governor’s relationship with Mr. Howe.
His is a past littered with erratic behavior and litigation. In 2002, a bank sued Mr. Howe and his wife for failing to pay back a $90,000 home equity loan. In 2010, he was prosecuted for failing to return a rental car, a felony. He has had his wages garnished to pay off judgments in at least four cases. Over the past 11 years, he was ordered to pay nearly $15,000 to two tree landscaping companies alone.
All the while, his route through Albany and Washington kept intersecting with that of Mr. Cuomo and his inner circle.
Read more: www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/nyregion/cuomo-loyalist-with-troubled-finances-is-at-center-of-us-inquiry.html