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 the Justice Department aft helium was accused of lying to Congress astir a study connected his engagement successful nursing location deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.

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

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

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

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

"This taxpayer-funded farce is an amerciable usage of Congress’s investigative authority," said Richard Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo. "The politician said helium didn’t callback due to the fact that helium didn’t recall. The committee lied successful their referral conscionable arsenic they person been lying to the nationalist and the 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 volition tally again arsenic he’s precocious been indicted by a expansive assemblage connected 5 counts of bribery and corruption, which includes soliciting amerciable overseas run donations.

Cuomo resigned arsenic politician successful August 2021 amid intersexual harassment allegations, which helium inactive denies.

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The transgression referral by the House subcommittee doesn’t transportation h2o successful the ineligible strategy and Congress doesn’t person the wherewithal to instruct the Justice Department connected what they should bash with it.

There’s besides nary denotation if the upcoming predetermination volition person immoderate bearing connected the subcommittee’s referral — careless of who gains power of Congress oregon who wins the presidency.

Former New York Gov. Andrew spoke astir his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and arguable nursing location policies portion Republicans scrutinized his relation successful the state's effect and alleged undercounting nursing location deaths. (Kent Nishimura)

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

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

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Cuomo has insisted that accusation and information regarding COVID deaths during the aboriginal stages was unreliable, and that his medication focused connected much reliable numbers that radical could trust, according to the Times.

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

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

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

Cuomo has accused the subcommittee of misusing authorities resources to "investigate a substance beyond its jurisdiction, seemingly successful work of a backstage lawsuit."