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Gov restores oversight power he plundered from comptroller nearly a decade ago
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo has finally restored oversight powers to the Office of the State Comptroller that he removed in 2011 — arguably enabling at least one of this moribund decade’s parade of depraved public servant scandals.
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