Governor, AG in silent power struggle
Photo credit: AP | Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. (March 27, 2012)
Twice this week, Benjamin Lawsky, who is Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's top financial services regulator, found his way into the limelight.
First came word that Lawsky's powerful office was probing whether insurance companies are masking their financial condition through affiliate entities. Of wider import, Lawsky filed papers charging that a British bank used its New York branch "as a front for prohibited...
