In short, although thousands of «alumni» and friends of the institute have been pleading and praying that the troublesome disclosures would cease so the seminars can
continue untarnished, it is the present and former staff members themselves who are demanding answers to dozens of questions about how the large sums of institute money are spent.
«The fact that he
continues to survive in various capacities perhaps bespeaks that he is
untarnished in a realm where not everyone has been able to look back at their career and say that,» said Buffalo - area Democratic Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, who has frequently jousted with Cuomo over economic development issues.