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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I remember it very well because @blakezeff.bsky.social and myself traveled to Hoosick Falls to make a documentary about the water crisis and how Cuomo ignored the people's cries for help www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX2JhjEzUXw
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Cuomo’s Toxic Water Scandal & Cover-up
In 2016, journalists Blake Zeff and Matt Binder travelled to Hoosick Falls, NY to report on a Flint-like drinking water crisis plaguing the town and the alleged cover-up by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Our investigation of the scandal took us to the NY Statehouse where we confronted lawmakers, including a seemingly horny senator... More info: https://www.salon.com/2016/07/05/a_water_crisis_and_an_alleged_cover_up_in_hoosick_falls_cafe_crashes_the_new_york_statehouse_partner/ (Video produced by Matt Binder and host Blake Zeff, originally created for CAFE.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
an Andrew Cuomo scandal many seem to have forgotten about: as governor, Cuomo told the people of upstate NY town Hoosick Falls that their water was safe to drink… …while the Obama admin was warning Cuomo that their water was polluted with cancer-causing chemicals
New documents show Cuomo
administration resistance to EPA
warnings on Hoosick Falls
Gov. Cuomo, second from right, along with members of his
administration, is briefed by local officials on the situation in
Hoosick Falls. | Office of the Governor of New York
By SCOTT WALDMAN
06/02/2016 05:34 AM EDTThe Cuomo administration resisted sounding a
public alarm even though federal regulators
warned senior health department officials that
people in Hoosick Falls should be alerted they
were drinking water that contained dangerous
levels of a chemical linked to cancer and other
serious health problems, according to
documents recently obtained by POLITICO New
York through a Freedom of Information
Request.
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