A former assistant attorney general has warned that Andrew Cuomo, Governor Andrew Cuomo, could lead the cause of deaths to nursing homes due to COVID-19.
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, John Daukas – who acted as acting attorney general for the Department of Civil Rights under President Trump under President Trump – insisted the multi-agency investigation is ‘serious, perhaps federal criminal charges’. earn.’
Daukas said Cuomo’s executive order last March requiring nursing homes in New York to admit patients to the hospital that tested positive for COVID-19 “led to far more tragic and unnecessary deaths than was reported to the public. “
“And it looks like his government had a cover-up that was meant to frustrate the federal government’s oversight efforts,” Daukas wrote late in the report.
“New York’s apparently false statements about deaths in nursing homes have misled public health officials across the country at a time when they were trying to develop strategies to combat a deadly pandemic,” he wrote.
Worse, he pointed to The Post’s report on how Cuomo’s leading aide, Melissa DeRosa, acknowledged that the actual death toll was being hidden for fear that the figures would be “used against us” by prosecutors.
‘Me. “According to DeRosa’s admissions, the conduct of the Cuomo government was not only negligent, but intentional and perhaps criminal,” Daukas wrote.
“Many federal criminal laws can apply,” he warned.
“It’s a crime to make false statements to the federal government. It is also a crime to hide information and otherwise obstruct government investigations.
“New York may have had a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and its agencies and possibly obstruct justice, including crimes,” he stressed.
‘Although it can not be proved that the Cuomo government knowingly provided false information to Justice and [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services], New York’s willful failure to provide information could itself constitute a criminal offense – especially if the intent was to thwart a federal investigation – which is allegedly exactly what Ms. “According to the government, DeRosa said,” he wrote.