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Source: WTEN-TV
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10/WETM) According to a report released by the New York Post Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomos top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers during a phone call for allegedly withholding the states nursing home death toll from COVID-19.
The report claims Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa said they froze out of fear that the true numbers would be used against them by federal prosecutors.
Basically, we froze, DeRosa told lawmakers on the call. Because then we were in a position where we werent sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying was going to be used against us, while we werent sure if there was going to be an investigation.
The Cuomo Administration has been under fire for several months about its handling of nursing homes and the coronavirus pandemic. A January report by the New York Attorney Generals Office found the New York State Department of Health may have undercounted the number of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%.
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