An FBI and Brooklyn federal probe into Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York and his administration for allegedly providing false data to hide the full extent of nursing home COVID-19 deaths in the state is getting closer to Cuomo, according to a Friday report.
Investigators had also reportedly subpoenaed the Democratic governor's office for documents related to the alleged altered state report covering up how many nursing home residents had died from COVID-19.
After interviewing the senior members of Cuomo's coronavirus team, the probe overseen by the Eastern District of New York is looking into Cuomo and his senior aides, the Post reported.
Two recent reports said that Cuomo's top aides deliberately altered a state report to cover up how many nursing home residents had died from COVID-19, due to an executive order from the governor's office ordering homes to accept COVID positive patients, and that the cover-up began months earlier than has been reported.
In a similar report, The Wall Street Journal said intervention by Cuomo's aides to leave out people who had died in hospitals after becoming sick in nursing homes resulted in a change from nearly 10,000 deaths to 6,432 in a July report.
The July report listed only nursing home COVID-19 deaths for people who died in their nursing home beds, intentionally leaving out nursing home patients who died from the coronavirus after they were taken to the hospital.
New York Attorney General Letitia James last month released a report showing Cuomo's administration underreported nursing home deaths by about 50 percent.
https://www.westernjournal.com/report-federal-probe-nursing-home-scandal-gets-closer-closer-cuomo/
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