Shortly after she blurted out the New York Governor’s involvement in covering up the real number of Covid fatalities among nursing home residents, Democrat and Republican lawmakers expressed their fury over the shocking leaks.
Andrew Cuomo and his administration are in dire straits following the bombshell revelations of his secretary Melissa DeRosa during a conference with the state Democratic leaders.
DeRosa admitted that Cuomo and his aides turned down the real tally when they were requested to submit the numbers of those who perished of the coronavirus at nursing homes across the state.
She added that Cuomo did so in August because “right around the same time, Trump turns this into a giant political football. He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes and he starts going after Murphy, Newsom, and Gretchen Whitmer.”
Cuomo’s administration also feared Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us,” according to DeRosa. “And basically, we froze.”
The State Attorney General had earlier said that nursing home Covid victims might be 50 percent more than what Cuomo’s administration asserted.
New York Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt said that Cuomo and his allies should be investigated “from top to bottom and stripped of his emergency powers.”
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said on Twitter: “There it is. Cuomo’s aide just admitted to covering up nursing home data so federal prosecutors couldn’t find it.
Time for federal investigations. Time for prosecutions. Time for JUSTICE.”
Democrat State Senators also admonished Cuomo’s step calling it “a betrayal of the public trust.”
“There needs to be full accountability for what happened, and the legislature needs to reconsider its broad grant of emergency powers to the governor,” Sen. Andrew Gornardes said.
