Cuomo Points a Finger

Just days after the indictment on corruption charges of two of Gov. Cuomo’s closest aides, including his longtime righthand man, the governor is crusading for “real ethics reform” . . . in the Legislature.

He’s threatening to prevent any pay hike for lawmakers unless they go along.

Oddly, Cuomo isn’t proposing any fixes for his own shop. Heck, he won’t even return the six-figure campaign donations he’s gotten over the years from two companies named in the federal indictment.

And despite the allegedly massive bid-rigging in his signature economic-development project, he’s still ordering “full steam ahead” on the Buffalo Billion.

Never mind that Alain Kaloyeros, the state’s highest-paid employee at over $1 million a year, was also indicted and can no longer supply the genius that’s supposed to ensure Cuomo’s plans work miracles.

No, Cuomo — one of the most hands-on, micro-managing governors in memory — insists “I had no idea about anything” in the way of corruption by people close to him.

The gov is so insulated that he only trusts a small band of aides. But, as Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Group notes, “When that trust is misplaced, the whole thing blows up in your face.”

Aides like Joseph Percoco, the governor’s political enforcer, whom he’s described as like a second brother. When Percoco returned to the state payroll after telling the governor he was taking on private clients, Cuomo never even asked who’d paid him.

Now the governor’s asking the public to ignore the news and look over there, at the Legislature.

Funny: Just last month Cuomo and legislative leaders were eagerly patting each other on the back over their last “ethics reform.”

It seems that, every time some new scandal raises alarms about corruption at the highest levels of New York government, the state’s leaders reach for the snooze button.