Her husband was Cuomo's
longtime state operations director, and her defection to de Blasio helped energize the drama.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile,
longtime Cuomo hand Joe Rabito will become the deputy secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, having previously served as deputy
director of
state operations for programs.
Mulrow will definitely bring a different style to the job than Schwartz, just as Jim Malatras, a wonky policy expert who cut his teeth in the office of former assemblyman Richard Brodsky, has to the position of
director of
state operations, which he took over after the departure of a
longtime Cuomo confidante, Howard Glaser.
The result is that senior officials are likely to be old hands: Joe Percoco, the governor's
longtime political counselor, returned to the payroll earlier this month after running Cuomo's re-election campaign and Jim Malatras, the new
director of
state operations, was brought back from SUNY for a second tour of duty.
The wife of a
longtime Cuomo family confidant and the governor's former
director of
state operations both feature prominently in the feds» latest corruption case — even though neither has been charged.