NYPIRG: Cuomo Biggest Beneficiary of NY’s Mega Donors

State of Politics

A NYPIRG report released today on the top 170 campaign contributors (giving $50,000 or more) of 2013 found Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the biggest beneficiary of the state’s current lax contribution laws, receiving – either directly or indirectly – some 40 percent of the $28 million dumped into campaign coffers by rich donors.

The cash given by this small percentage of rich individual, businesses and labor unions represented more than half – 51.41 percent – of all the money donated by New York’s 19.7 million residents last year.

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