Janice Dean called on President Joe Biden to reopen and ‘finish’ the DOJ investigation into the Cuomo government, after news broke that the governor’s assistant had conceded that he had killed the number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes obscured.
The senior meteorologist from Fox News criticized Biden and Democratic lawmakers for patting themselves on the back and ‘protecting’ Cuomo during an appearance in ‘Fox & Friends’.
“It has to be an investigation,” Dean said. “We need the full law on this and I have heard that President Biden has rejected the DOJ lawsuit so you know what I’m going to keep crying about from the mountain tops.”
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Dean claims that she has never spoken to her about a political issue before, and said that despite being grateful to those who broke the story and want ‘justice’, the story would not get the coverage that she would not want to see in the media industry.
Dean, who lost both her in-laws to COVID-19 in nursing homes, said Cuomo’s actions were “horrific” and that he and anyone involved in the cover-up “should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
Secretary of State Andrew Cuomo Melissa DeRosa sought to retract an earlier acknowledgment that the state had deliberately withheld COVID-19 nursing homes, and insisted on Friday that the governor’s office was “comprehensive and transparent” in responding to record requests of the Trump administration’s Department of Justice.
According to DeRosa, during a call with Democratic lawmakers in New York on Thursday, the Cuomo government feared that the data on COVID-19 deaths “could be used against us” by the Justice Department amid the federal investigation instituted against four states regarding the government. nursing home deaths, including New York.
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‘We were in a position where we were not sure whether what we would give to the Department of Justice, or what we would give to you, what we were starting to say, would be used against us while we were not. sure whether there will be an investigation, “DeRosa told lawmakers, according to the New York Post.
Fox News’ Vandana Rambaran and the New York Post contributed to this report.