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Governor Andrew Cuomo broke days of silence over escalating accusations that he and his top aides deliberately withheld for months key COVID-19 death

Feb 16, 2021 A letter from the Republican Senate Minority Leader is calling for an expanded investigation from the Attorney General’s office into how the state has handled COVID-19. GOP Leader Rob Ortt penned a letter to NY AG Letitia James requesting her office to formally broaden the scale and scope of its investigation into COVID-related nursing home deaths. In the letter, Ortt says quote “There must be a full, top to bottom investigation of the Cuomo Administration’s decisions on nursing homes, its subsequent and continuing coverup of those decisions, the mass exodus of Department...

The OBSERVER's View Feb 15, 2021 Democrats in the state Legislature have been unwilling to use their power to investigate what happened inside the state’s nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe the admission of a cover-up will be enough to spur Democrats into action. Late Thursday night, the New York Post reported that an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted to Democrats in the state Legislature that the state hid the death toll from COVID-19 in nursing homes because it was feared President Donald Trump would use the numbers against the state in court. The Post was given a tape r...

Feb 15, 2021 Democrats in the state Legislature have been unwilling to use their power to investigate what happened inside the state’s nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe the admission of a cover-up will be enough to spur Democrats into action. Late Thursday night, the New York Post reported that an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted to Democrats in the state Legislature that the state hid the death toll from COVID-19 in nursing homes because it was feared President Donald Trump would use the numbers against the state in court. The Post was given a tape recording of the phon...

February 15, 2021 In light of Cuomo’s nursing home cover-up, Senators Tedisco and Jordan call for new legislation to strengthen New York’s open government/Freedom of Information Law and hold the Gov. and senior officials accountable when they impede public’s right to know As Governor Andrew Cuomo and his Administration face mounting questions over a cover-up of data related to the deaths of 15,000 nursing home residents and a related court decision on its violation of open government law which put taxpayers on the hook to pay legal fees, Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C-Glenvi...