By H.M. Tagore

“From mass graves to microreactors, the former governor’s comeback is built on blood money.”

Andrew Cuomo’s second act isn’t public service; it is pure self-service, and it is on steroids. This is not a redemption story. It is the story of a man who has turned death, war, corruption, and scandal into an endless revenue stream. From monetizing the corpses of New York’s seniors, to pocketing war money through Pentagon-linked nuclear contracts, to laundering political respectability for a crypto exchange caught washing billions in dirty cash, to photo-oping his way into a Muslim cop’s funeral while defending Netanyahu, Cuomo is the poster boy for shameless political parasitism. Here we are going to unfold Cuomo’s business model that he masked behind a career arc. The public outrage is what he relies on to be relevant, so that he can exert influence.

Let’s start with the blood on his hands. Cuomo’s COVID-19 nursing home policy killed thousands. That is not spin, that is the reality. And while families buried their loved ones, he buried himself in a $5 million book deal to lecture us all on “leadership.” Leadership? He cashed in on the very crisis, his arrogance and deceit worsened. That is not leadership; that is profiteering off a mass grave. Other politicians would have gone into hiding, but Cuomo? He made it his brand.

Then comes Nano Nuclear Energy, Cuomo’s war chest in corporate form. They handed him $500,000 in cash and $2.6 million in stock options. They do not just dabble in clean energy; they build portable microreactors designed for military deployment in remote and hostile territories. Their Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board for Military and Defense is none other than retired NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark. These are not science fair projects. These are war machines dressed up in green PR, designed to slide perfectly into Pentagon programs like Project Pele, which exists to keep forward-operating bases humming in active war zones. Cuomo is not just standing by; he is standing in line to collect his cut from every future battlefield they power. This is the same guy who was Attorney General of New York State, but guess now we know why the rich kept becoming richer in New York when he was Attorney General.

If war money was not dirty enough, he waded into the muck of crypto crime. Cuomo is an advisor to OKX, the cryptocurrency exchange that just pleaded guilty to US anti-money laundering violations. The fine? $505 million. The accusation? Facilitating over $5 billion in suspicious transactions, including business with sanctioned regimes. They have been freezing regular people’s accounts, blocking withdrawals, and running compliance like a clown car, all while letting illicit funds flow like a busted sewer main. And Cuomo’s role? He is the smiling mask over the stench.

He has not lived in New York City in years, and it is still unclear whether he has even moved back. Yet he finds time to attack Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani for living in a rent-stabilized apartment that he started to live in when he was earning less than $50,000 a year. Cuomo paints Mamdani as “rich” because he owns property in Uganda and earns $140,000 as an Assembly Member, ignoring the fact that Mamdani lives in Astoria, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city, and unlike Cuomo, actually resides in the district he represents.

And then the insult to every ounce of sincerity, Muslim leaders have long claimed that in his entire political career, Andrew Cuomo has never once set foot in a mosque. South Asian communities, especially the Bangladeshi community,  recall that every time they invited him to their events, he sent token lackeys in his place, armed with nothing more than hollow citations. Yet here he was, suddenly appearing at the funeral of a fallen Bangladeshi-American Muslim police officer, seated in the section reserved for government executives despite no longer being one, not out of solidarity or shared grief, but for the cameras. The same officers’ community has called loudly for an end to the genocide of Palestinians. Cuomo? He has been out there formally serving as Netanyahu’s defense lawyer, justifying the bombing, defending the slaughter and shielding war crimes from scrutiny. It is the same old Cuomo, never there for the principle, always there for the photo-op. Political symbolism is serious business to stay relevant, but rarely is anyone as naked about it as Cuomo. His suit is essentially see-through.

Andrew Cuomo can’t even remember his own legislative track record. Cuomo warns that city-owned grocery stores will scam the poor because the wealthy will buy from them while bodegas suffer. Still, here is the hypocrisy — as governor, he signed Assembly Bill A5781A into law, which essentially created a state-owned grocery store system. That very framework is what Mamdani wants to adapt for New York City. The state infrastructure already exists because Cuomo signed it. For example, the Client Choice Food Pantry Model in Buffalo, NY, is based on this legislation, which converts food pantries into brick and mortar stores, a state-backed grocery. Speaking of his legislative track record, let’s not forget: Cuomo helped enable the Independent Democratic Conference, cutting deals that allowed Republicans to control the State Senate when it suited him, just so he could pass bills when it looked good for him politically.

In February 2025, Cuomo’s name appeared in the DOJ-released Jeffrey Epstein contact list. Sitting right there among the celebrities, socialites, and power brokers who floated in Epstein’s disgusting orbit. Maybe he will claim it is innocent. Maybe it is. Or is it? Cuomo worked with Andrew Farkas to build a luxury marina in Puerto Rico… and *drumroll* Farkas’s previous partner was none other than the notorious Jefferey Epstein. The pattern is unmistakable: wherever there are questionable characters and dirty money, Andrew Cuomo is not far behind, and he usually leaves richer than he arrived. 

Cuomo is not just rich; he is capital gains rich. His sister is married to fashion designer Kenneth Cole, and their estate was appraised at roughly $22 million last year. He is the son of Mario Cuomo, part of one of the most politically connected dynasties in New York. Behind the glossy family name lies a darker truth: his marriage to Kerry Kennedy, a member of America’s most famous political family, ended after she described enduring emotional abuse so severe that she once slept in a locked bathroom to protect herself. In her words to a biographer, she realized that she had spent her life fighting for women suffering under abusive husbands, only to find herself living that same nightmare.

Andrew Cuomo does not stand with the people; he stands over them. He stands with nuclear corporations engineering the next war, with crypto laundromats caught red-handed, with political elites who see human suffering as a backdrop for their brand. From the nursing homes to the war rooms, from the crypto boardrooms to the contact lists of the worst people on Earth, Cuomo has shown exactly who he is: not a leader, not a servant, but a predator in a tailored suit, and sometimes, a towel like Vincent “Chin” Gigante.

Strip all his titles away from him, and you’ll see a man who has a Master of Dark Arts degree in manipulation and self-interest from the Cuomo School of American Elites, an imaginary institution just like his wild imagination of becoming Mayor. New York does not need him back. New York needs him gone.