Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo referred to DOJ for prosecution by House subcommittee: report

A Republican-led House subcommittee connected Wednesday referred erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to nan Justice Department aft he was accused of lying to Congress astir a study connected his engagement successful nursing location deaths during nan coronavirus pandemic.

Leader of nan House Select Subcommittee connected nan Coronavirus Pandemic, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, signed nan referral that accuses Cuomo of engaging successful a "conscious, calculated effort" to debar work for really nursing location deaths were accounted for successful early 2020 erstwhile nan COVID-19 pandemic began.

The referral missive claims that Cuomo, who held a behind-closed-doors gathering pinch nan subcommittee, didn’t reappraisal a State Health Department study that blamed him for those deaths, according to a caller study by nan New York Times.

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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is sworn successful to attest earlier nan Select Subcommittee connected nan Coronavirus Pandemic successful nan Rayburn House Office Building astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected Sept. 10, 2024, successful Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura)

Despite Cuomo reportedly reviewing nan reports from his state’s wellness section and penning parts of early drafts successful emails, nan erstwhile politician says he doesn’t recollect specified a thing.

"This taxpayer-funded farce is an forbidden usage of Congress’s investigative authority," said Richard Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo. "The politician said he didn’t callback because he didn’t recall. The committee lied successful their referral conscionable arsenic they person been lying to nan nationalist and nan press."

This comes arsenic Cuomo has surfaced arsenic a apical sanction for adjacent year’s New York City mayoral contest. It’s unclear whether existent Mayor Eric Adams will tally again arsenic he’s precocious been indicted by a expansive assemblage connected 5 counts of bribery and corruption, which includes soliciting forbidden overseas run donations.

Cuomo resigned arsenic politician successful August 2021 amid intersexual harassment allegations, which he still denies.

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The criminal referral by nan House subcommittee doesn’t transportation h2o successful nan ineligible strategy and Congress doesn’t person nan wherewithal to instruct nan Justice Department connected what they should do pinch it.

There’s besides nary denotation if nan upcoming predetermination will person immoderate base connected nan subcommittee’s referral — sloppy of who gains power of Congress aliases who wins nan presidency.

Former New York Gov. Andrew said astir his handling of nan COVID-19 pandemic and arguable nursing location policies while Republicans scrutinized his domiciled successful nan state's consequence and alleged undercounting nursing location deaths. (Kent Nishimura)

Cuomo’s memoir, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from nan COVID-19 Pandemic," has been nether scrutiny nan past fewer years and he was ordered to return $5 cardinal connected his costs beforehand for nan portion aft a authorities morals committee declared he utilized authorities resources to thief pen it.

That’s thing Cuomo besides denied and successfully sued nan committee for, claiming it was his correct to owed process.

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Cuomo has insisted that accusation and information regarding COVID deaths during nan early stages was unreliable, and that his management focused connected much reliable numbers that group could trust, according to nan Times.

In Wenstrup’s missive to Attorney General Merrick Garland, he said Cuomo falsely said "he did not person immoderate discussions astir nan July 6 study being adjacent reviewed" and "that he did not cognize whether nan July 6 study was reviewed by persons outside" nan State Department of Health.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, president of nan COVID-19 prime subcommittee, sought answers from erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo astir his handling of nan pandemic down closed doors. (Getty Images)

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"Mr. Cuomo provided mendacious statements to nan prime subcommittee successful what appears to beryllium a conscious, calculated effort to insulate himself from accountability," Wenstrup wrote successful nan referral missive reviewed by nan Times. "The Department of Justice should see Mr. Cuomo’s anterior allegedly wrongful behaviour erstwhile evaluating whether to complaint him for nan mendacious statements described."

Cuomo has accused nan subcommittee of misusing authorities resources to "investigate a matter beyond its jurisdiction, apparently successful work of a backstage lawsuit."