The House Oversight Committee resent its criminal referral to the Justice Department recommending former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D, be charged with making false statements to Congress. The committee claims Cuomo “knowingly and willfully” made false statements about deaths in New York nursing homes during COVID-19.
“This wasn’t a slip-up—it was a calculated cover-up by a man seeking to shield himself from responsibility for the devastating loss of life in New York’s nursing homes,” Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement. “Andrew Cuomo is a man with a history of corruption and deceit, now caught red-handed lying to Congress during the Select Subcommittee’s investigation into the COVID-19 nursing home tragedy in New York.”
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What did Cuomo lie about?
It all started in March 2020 when the Cuomo administration ordered nursing homes and long-term care facilities in the state to admit COVID-positive patients. Over the next 16 months, 17,425 patients in those facilities died from the virus.
In May 2023, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic opened an investigation into Cuomo. They discovered he helped draft, review and edit what was supposed to be an independent New York State Department of Health report on the matter. The state report undercounted the number of deaths and blamed staff for the excessive deaths, not the requirement to admit sick patients.
The New York Attorney General’s office released a report that said the Cuomo administration had undercounted the deaths by half.
Mr. Cuomo participated in multiple interviews with the committee during its investigation. During a transcribed interview in June 2024, Cuomo testified that he was not involved in the review or drafting of the Department of Health Report, that he did not have any discussions about a peer review of the report and that he had no knowledge of individuals outside the Department of Health reviewing the report.
The committee states each one of those statements is “demonstrably false.”
The committee originally sent its criminal referral to the Justice Department during the Biden administration, but it did not bring charges. They are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to review it and take action.
Cuomo is running for NYC Mayor
Cuomo is currently the front-runner in the New York City Mayoral election. The Democratic primary is June 24, and the winner is pretty much guaranteed to win the general election thanks to the city’s 3.6 million registered Democrats, compared to 530,000 registered Republicans.
Cuomo is challenging incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, D, who decided to run as an independent after he was charged with fraud and bribery, leading to a significant loss of support in his party. The Trump administration dropped those charges, and a judge ultimately dismissed them with prejudice, so prosecutors could not try to bring them forward again if Adams falls out of favor with the Trump DOJ.
