A House committee in the US plans to refer former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice for allegedly making false statements regarding a state audit that underestimated nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic accuses Cuomo of denying involvement in the July 6, 2020 report that underreported the state’s nursing home COVID death count by 46%. Despite Cuomo’s claims during a June 11 interview that he did not draft, review, or discuss the report, emails presented by the subcommittee staff suggest otherwise, with aides discussing his role in editing and reviewing the report.
Cuomo’s handwritten notes on the documents reveal his efforts to deflect responsibility for the nursing home mandate that resulted in COVID patients being placed in senior care facilities. His notes also show his attempts to compare New York’s death count to neighboring states, emphasizing a lower fatality count within nursing homes. The subcommittee’s criminal referral concludes that Cuomo’s statements were false and that he did not correct them during subsequent interviews, suggesting that the Department of Justice should pursue criminal charges against him. El artículo 1001 para declaraciones falsas,” se cierra.
El aliado de Trump, Roger Stone, fue el figura más reciente procesado bajo el mismo estatuto federal por hacer declaraciones falsas al Comité de Inteligencia de la Cámara como parte de su investigación sobre los vínculos entre la campaña presidencial de 2016 del ex presidente y Rusia.
El abogado y portavoz de Cuomo no devolvieron inmediatamente las solicitudes de comentarios.