There is a new push to indict former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who accused him of lying to Congress about his role in the Covid nursing home crisis.
The House-elected subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic first introduced Cuomo for criminal prosecution in October last year after concluded that it had made a criminally false statement to Congress about its efforts to fill the nurse's death. The subcommittee said it sent it again Monday after the Justice Department had not taken action under former President Joe Biden.
The House Republican-controlled subcommittee has written to Attorney General Pam Bondy, who has since last year claimed what Cuomo has called “multiple criminally false statements” during his testimony last summer.
The Criminal Referral alleges that Cuomo denied his involvement in drafting or reviewing the report during his June 2024 testimony, which countered his claims. According to the panel, Cuomo said it refused to discuss the peer-reviewed July 6 report. The committee asked Cuomo if he knew people outside the health department involved in drafting and editing the review, and the former governor replied “No.”
According to the panel, the document shows a report that the testimony of Cuomo's former executive assistant appeared to be his handwritten notes on the draft copy of the July 6 copy. The panel also provided that it was an email from a staff member at the Governor's office who said “the Governor's editor is attached for your review.”
A Cuomo spokesman explained the pointless laws of Monday's referral, saying, “The only point to doing this is politics, as it's also being made against referrals like these, planning parents, Hillary Clinton and Anthony Fauci, so there's no need to resubmit with the new administration.”
The panel said Cuomo was not sworn in during his testimony, but he should be honest with Congress to answer questions.
The Cuomo administration has undergone serious scrutiny on its policy that it first required nursing homes again to retrieve Covid-19 patients to avoid overwhelmed hospitals.
