The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is sending a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland, referring a potential criminal case involving former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice. The subcommittee alleges that Cuomo lied to Congress regarding his role in a state health department report from June 2020 that underestimated the nursing home death count by nearly half.
The issue stems from a Cuomo administration advisory in March 2020 that prohibited nursing homes from rejecting patients based solely on a Covid-19 diagnosis. Subcommittee chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup has accused Cuomo of admitting thousands of Covid-19 positive patients into nursing homes, leading to deadly consequences for vulnerable individuals.
