Ronan Farrow: Phone Call by Cuomo Raises Legal Issues
(Newser link) https://www.newser.com/story/309652/ronan-farrows-new-target-andrew-cuomo.html
Governor called White House in 2014 to complain about a federal prosecutor
Farrow reports that a seething Cuomo called Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett in 2014 about Preet Bharara, then the US attorney for the Southern District of New York. "This guy's out of control," Cuomo said, according to Farrow. "He's your guy." This was in relation to the Moreland Commission, set up to investigate corruption in New York politics.
Jarrett tells Farrow that she quickly shut down the call when she realized Cuomo was calling to complain about the commission. She also reported it to the White House counsel, who agreed that Cuomo seemingly trying to use his political pull in regard to the inquiry was improper. "It's highly inappropriate and potentially illegal," adds Jennifer Rodgers of NYU Law School, a former prosecutor in Bharara's office. The story has multiple quotes to this effect from others.
Farrow's story asserts that the call fits into Cuomo's pattern of retaliating against those who he feels have wronged him, an allegation raised by some of his harassment accusers. Cuomo actually set up the Moreland Commission, but the story makes the case that he shut it down when it began getting too close to the governor himself and his political allies.
The story includes interviews with two women who played leading roles on the commission, Danya Perry (its chief of investigations) and Kathleen Rice (a commission co-chair). Both accuse Cuomo of pressuring them as the work unfolded. "He was pulling back subpoenas that were gonna go to friends and supporters of his—it was just really unbelievable," says Rice. Perry, while echoing that sentiment, adds that Cuomo once began telling her about his lackluster sex life with his girlfriend before she quickly changed the subject. "He was definitely very, very personal and fairly intrusive." (After Cuomo shut down the commission, Bharara ordered commissioners to preserve their documents, drawing the governor's ire.)
This Newser brief cites the New Yorker article by Ronan Farrow (pub. date 8/10/21) that can be read here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/andrew-cuomos-war-against-a-federal-prosecutor (paywall) (I don't have access)
Hmmmm....
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Sounds like obstruction of justice 
I'm wondering if Ronan Farrow got to see them.
those documents were generated by the commission that Cuomo shut down. It's unclear to me if those documents still exist
... came from Danya Perry and Kathleen Rice, former staffers at SDNY.
He definitely interviewed them and perhaps others from SDNY. I wouldn't be surprised if he also spoke with Preet Bharara. Maybe they didn't want to talk about this until they knew Cuomo was resigning. That would be my guess.
As for the documents, Farrow might even spell it out in the article. The New Yorker won't let me read it unless I purchase a subscription, and one of these days I might do that.
