A House subcommittee charges former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with lying to Congress about his role in preparing New York’s COVID-19 report on nursing home deaths. The New York newspaper reported that the matter will be referred to the Department of Justice as a possibility. The Times reported Wednesday.
The move, which is expected to be finalized Thursday, marks a sharp rebuke from a Republican-led House special subcommittee. The subcommittee alleges that Mr. Cuomo made a “conscious and calculated effort” to avoid responsibility for thousands of deaths in nursing homes. During the pandemic, According to To NYT. The introduction was signed only by the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, and the most powerful Democrat, Rep. Raul Ruiz of California, declined to support it.
The subcommittee’s referral focused on Mr. Cuomo’s closed-door testimony, which the New York Times reported focused on Mr. Cuomo’s review of a state health department report that shifted the administration’s responsibility for nursing home deaths. He reportedly denied the review. However, the NYT recently revealed that Cuomo not only reviewed the report but also contributed to earlier drafts, and this new evidence pulled from Congressional records and emails suggests that Cuomo Increased scrutiny of pandemic management.
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Mr. Cuomo’s legal team sent its own legal team. letter On Wednesday night, he told the Justice Department that the subcommittee had misused government resources and accused Wenstrup and others of political bias. The letter, drafted by Sarah A. Sulkowski, a lawyer for Mr. Cuomo, said her husband was working with Fox News personality Janice Dean, who was involved in the dismissal of the lawsuit against Mr. Cuomo, in a partisan investigation. It criticizes the subcommittee that is said to have
Mr. Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic has been controversial, with his early daily briefings drawing widespread praise but his policies, particularly regarding nursing home deaths, facing criticism, according to The New York Times. said. These include a March 2020 order requiring nursing homes to readmit COVID-19 positive patients and an ethics commission ordering Cuomo to return a $5 million advance from his memoir. Former Governor Cuomo has challenged this in court.
Mr. Cuomo testified before Congress on June 11 about the 2020 directive. The testimony alleges that the administration intentionally undercounted nursing home deaths from COVID-19 by changing the classification method, as first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation in May 2020 after an investigation. He also mentioned the suspicion that he had reported it.
More than 4,000 residents died as a result of the former governor’s orders, according to a 2021 state attorney general’s report. Attorney General Letitia James reported that some of these deaths occurred in facilities that had no COVID-19 cases before the order went into effect. (Related: Andrew Cuomo says Trump civil fraud lawsuit ‘never should have been filed’)
The latest controversy comes as Mr. Cuomo eyes a possible return to politics, with speculation surrounding his interest in running for mayor of New York City next year. New York City Mayor Eric Adams is embroiled in his own scandal over federal bribery charges.
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