Latest Fact-Checks By Jill Terreri Ramos

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Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on April 8, 2020 in a television interview:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo “was simply saying if we can share 20 percent of your excess, your non-used ventilators, to help people in other parts of the state on a voluntary basis, that would be great. Of course, there was a reaction to that, which was not positive."
Pants on Fire!
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 14, 2020
Jerome Adams
Jerome Adams
stated on March 27, 2020 in a television interview:
“They’re furloughing nurses in hospitals in western New York state.”
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 2, 2020
Chris Jacobs
Chris Jacobs
stated on March 4, 2020 in a television commercial:
"Nate McMurray wants to reward illegals with amnesty."
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 24, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 17, 2020 in a news conference:
“No city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 20, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2020 in a Tweet:
Michael Bloomberg “did not poll well as mayor in handling crisis!”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 30, 2020 in a news release:
During his tenure as mayor of New York City, “street homelessness decreased by 28 percent.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 1, 2020
Free Thought Project
Free Thought Project
stated on January 24, 2020 in in a blog post:
“State Forces Citizens to Pay for ‘Stargazing Permit’ to View Night Sky in Public Parks”
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 9, 2020
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 24, 2020 in a news conference:
"The American people are overwhelmingly with us" in calling witnesses in Senate trial 
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 28, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 1, 2020 in a television ad:
"Mayor Bloomberg helped lower the number of uninsured by 40 percent, covering 700,000 more New Yorkers"
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 28, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 8, 2020 in a speech:
"We have the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968."
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 18, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on December 15, 2019 in a speech:
"We cut New York City’s carbon footprint twice as much as the rest of the country." 
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 11, 2020
New York City Police Benevolent Association
New York City Police Benevolent Association
stated on December 2, 2019 in a Tweet:
"Defendants charged with producing, directing or promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child will be arraigned & set free." 
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 22, 2019
David DiPietro
David DiPietro
stated on October 30, 2019 in an interview:
When it comes to how many of the 35 different federal welfare benefits each state can offer, "the average in the country is about 12 to 14. Why are we giving every one?"  
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 3, 2019
Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr.
stated on November 1, 2019 in a Tweet:
"Tens of thousands" of people leave New York every week.
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 8, 2019
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
stated on October 9, 2019 in a radio interview:
"If folks are vaping a legal medical cannabis product that comes from any of the New York state operators, they will not have to worry about the negative impacts on their lungs." 
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 2, 2019
Brian Kolb
Brian Kolb
stated on September 24, 2019 in a Tweet:
The Buffalo Billion is "still breaking every job promise"
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 29, 2019
Nate McMurray
Nate McMurray
stated on September 10, 2019 in a Tweet:
"Under @BarackObama illegal immigration dropped to a 50-year low."
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 23, 2019
Tom Reed
Tom Reed
stated on August 20, 2019 in a Tweet:
After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, "the typical American worker’s pay growing at more than 3 percent a year, record low unemployment."
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 6, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2019 in a speech:
"From 2010 to 2017, natural gas production plummeted by nearly 70 percent in New York, but it soared almost 1,000 percent in Pennsylvania."
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 4, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on July 19, 2019 in a radio interview:
Property taxes have "nothing to do with the state."
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 10, 2019
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