GOP-led House panel to refer former NY Gov. Cuomo to DOJ for potential prosecution over report on Covid nursing home deaths
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The Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Thursday morning will send a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland referring a potential criminal case involving former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice, alleging he lied to Congress.
The Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Thursday morning will send a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland referring a potential criminal case involving former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice, alleging he lied to Congress. At issue is Cuomo’s truthfulness regarding his role in the writing and review of a state health department report from June 2020 that underestimated the nursing home death count by nearly half. A Cuomo administration advisory sent out in March 2020 barred nursing homes from rejecting patients solely on the basis of a Covid-19 diagnosis. Subcommittee chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup, an Ohio Republican, has alleged the former governor’s “misguided decision effectively admitted thousands of COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes, causing predictable but deadly consequences for New York’s most vulnerable.” Earlier Wednesday, Cuomo’s legal team filed a referral letter to the Justice Department requesting they investigate an alleged abuse of power by the select committee, with a particular focus on Wenstrup, whom they claim to be in cahoots with a Fox News personality and her husband, who is part of a separate Covid-related lawsuit against the former governor. Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said the GOP-led committee was engaged in a “pre-election Maga exercise and affirmatively chose to act unethically in order to help their masters score cheap political points.” “This is a joke,” Azzopardi said of the testimony in question. “The Governor said he didn’t recall because he didn’t recall.”
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