
An aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told lawmakers the administration “withheld data” about nursing home Covid-19 deaths.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing allegations of covering up the true death toll of the novel coronavirus pandemic in New York’s nursing homes, according to a new report by the New York Times. One of Cuomo’s aides, Melissa DeRosa, allegedly acknowledged in a conversation with state lawmakers that the Cuomo administration “withheld data because it feared an investigation by the Trump Justice Department,” saying in a virtual conference that when the Department of Justice sought data from the administration over the summer, “basically, we froze.”
The Times describes a partial transcript of the call in which DeRosa said further: “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, and what we start saying, was going to be used against us and we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.” Continue reading