Cuomo blames ‘politics,’ fails to address nursing home cover-up admission
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday tried to dig himself out of the biggest hole of his career by blaming politics for the controversy engulfing his administration following The Post’s revelation that his top aide admitted withholding data about nursing home deaths amid a federal probe.
During a virtual news conference at which he declined to take a question from The Post, Cuomo claimed that “there’s nothing to investigate” regarding the cover-up to which Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa confessed during a video conference call with Democratic lawmakers last week.
Cuomo never directly addressed DeRosa’s recorded remarks in which she admitted “we froze” over whether to come clean to the Legislature — or the public — about nursing home deaths in the face of a Justice Department inquiry.
“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” DeRosa said in the Wednesday evening conference call.
Cuomo also again claimed that the state had always reported the number of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19 — even though it only began releasing figures on those who died in hospitals after a damning report last month by state Attorney General Letitia James, a fellow Democrat.
Source: https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/cuomo-fails-to-address-nursing-home-cover-up-admission/
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday tried to dig himself out of the biggest hole of his career by blaming politics for the controversy engulfing his administration following The Post’s revelation that his top aide admitted withholding data about nursing home deaths amid a federal probe.
During a virtual news conference at which he declined to take a question from The Post, Cuomo claimed that “there’s nothing to investigate” regarding the cover-up to which Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa confessed during a video conference call with Democratic lawmakers last week.
Cuomo never directly addressed DeRosa’s recorded remarks in which she admitted “we froze” over whether to come clean to the Legislature — or the public — about nursing home deaths in the face of a Justice Department inquiry.
“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” DeRosa said in the Wednesday evening conference call.
Cuomo also again claimed that the state had always reported the number of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19 — even though it only began releasing figures on those who died in hospitals after a damning report last month by state Attorney General Letitia James, a fellow Democrat.
Source: https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/cuomo-fails-to-address-nursing-home-cover-up-admission/
