Gov. Cuomo, the system is corrupt. Own it and end it (Editorial) [Video]

Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.

That’s the verdict of 12 New York jurors on multiple charges against four defendants who conspired to rig bids for $850 million in state contracts for projects in Syracuse and Buffalo. The jury did not buy defense arguments that it’s unsavory, but not illegal, to do business this way.

It is both unsavory and illegal, as anyone with an ounce of sense could tell you.

The defendants — former nanotech czar Alain Kaloyeros, Syracuse developers Steve Aiello and Joseph Girardi, and Buffalo developer Louis Ciminelli — own the illegal part.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo owns the unsavory part.

Now what are you going to do about it, Governor?

Cuomo denies any responsibility for the rot at the center of his signature economic development programs, the Buffalo Billion and SUNY Polytechnic’s nanotech center. It’s all SUNY’s fault, the governor said. People will do bad things.

Astonishingly, even after the second set of verdicts proving corruption in …

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