Gov. Kathy Hochul had New Yorkers pay twice as much for COVID tests from a company tied to nearly $300,000 in donations to her campaign compared to other state vendors, a new report details, raisin…
for backing a Penn Station overhaul that would potentially direct more than $1 billion in tax breaks to Vornado Realty Trust after its head, Steve Roth, gave the maximum $68,700 to her campaign in December.under Hochul’s watch after its president and his wife gave $52,600 stretching back to last September when she was still lieutenant governor under Cuomo.
A campaign spokesman told The Post Friday that “high ethical standards” mean donors have “no influence” over government decision-making despite concerns about the timing of the Digital Gadgets deal. Two other companies charged the state at least several dollars less per unit though the administration has claimed those bought through Digital Gadgets are of a higher quality than those offered by other companies, which could only provide a limited volume in time for the reopening of schools amid the omicron wave.
Company honcho Charlie Tebele – whose family has given roughly $300,000 to Hochul’s campaign – and his wife gave the maximum $69,700 each to her run for governor in May, state records show. The suspect pay-to-play situations are transforming Hochul’s prolific fundraising into a political liability in her race against Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, whose mid-July campaign filings show he had $1.57 million on hand compared to $11.7 million for Hochul.
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