Andrew Cuomo, son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo, is the attorney general for New York.

Cuomo became a leading figure in the outrage over executive "retention bonuses" distributed by insurance firm AIG after the company had received $170 billion in bailout funds from the U.S. Government.Washington Post: Cuomo Emerges Amid AIG Disaster (March 19, 2009) Cuomo was among the first to provide the public with details about the bonus program (which included bonuses of $1 million distributed to at least 73 executives) and forced AIG CEO Edward Liddy to release to him the names of executives who received bonuses. Cuomo intends to release the names to the public after running a "risk assessment" to ensure the executive's personal safety.Washington Post: Cuomo Emerges Amid AIG Disaster (March 19, 2009)

Cuomo's public discussion of the AIG bonus scandal started with a letter sent from his office to Representative Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. In the letter, Cuomo discussed the $160 million in retention payouts distributed by AIG, providing details such as the number of executives who received bonuses, the fact that top recipient Douglas Poling received $6.4 million and that 11 of the executives who received bonuses of more than $1 million had already left the company. Cuomo told Frank that "something is deeply wrong with this outcome" and expressed his hope that the Financial Services Committee would confront the problem "head on."Fox News: Raw Data: Cuomo Letter on AIG Bonuses (March 17, 2009)

Cuomo was criticized during the 2008 presidential election for making a comment that included the phrase "shuck and jive", which some viewed as a racial slur aimed at Barack Obama. Cuomo's office dismissed the charges, maintaining that the quote was merely an attempt to describe the nature of the early primary process.

""You know I’ve spent a lot of time in other races, especially in Iowa and in New Hampshire, back with Gore and back with Clinton. Those races require you to do something no other race does, you know, and I like it, and I agree with you, it’s a good thing...It’s not a TV-crazed race, you know, you can’t just buy your way through that race ...It doesn’t work that way, it’s frankly a more demanding process. You have to get on a bus, you have to go into a diner, you have to shake hands, you have to sit down with ten people in a living room...You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference, you can’t just put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you saying answer the question, you know, and all those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room."SpinCycle(Newsday):AG Cuomo on NH: No "Shuck and jive"????(January 10, 2008)

His ex-wife, Kerry Kennedy, is the cousin of Caroline Kennedy, who had been another candidate for the position until she withdrew her name from consideration on January 21, 2009, citing "personal reasons."The New York Post: Caroline Kennedy Ends Senate Seat Bid (January 21, 2009)