Occasionally when you play “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”, you have to politely explain that the crime is unique to the man and really doesn’t apply to anyone else. That’s what New York’s Gov. Hochul just did.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) addressed New York business owners in a new interview and told them there was “nothing to worry about” after former President Trump was hit with a $355 million fine and a ban on conducting business in New York for three years.

Hochul joined John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM, where she was asked if other New York businesspeople should be worried that if “they can do that to the former president, they can do that to anybody.”

“I think that this is really an extraordinary, unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about, because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior,” Hochul responded.

More accurately, they can do it to anyone, but they generally wouldn’t choose to do so.

John Catsimatidis has some reason to worry. He’s a billionaire who apart from owning Gristedes supermarkets (one of the few sizable supermarket chains outside the Safeway/Kroger empire, it’s such an iconic New York City institution that it’s the grocery bag that Charles Bronson is toting on the subway in Death Wish just before he opens fire), but he’s also an occasional Republican donor who flirted with the idea of running for mayor.

So perhaps ‘Cats’ would like to know that he won’t be hauled into court on the sort of charge that probably 1 in 10 major businessmen in NYC could be nailed on (if not more.)

And Gov. Hochul assured him that he’s not on the radar. As far as she knows. Of course if he were to run for governor, who knows. At that point he might be considered less different than Trump enough to be a target.

They can indeed do it to anyone. Show them the man and they’ll find the crime.