I’ll give Melissa DeRosa some credit here. At least she’s honest about the crooked Andrew Cuomo and what really happened with nursing home deaths in New York. Turns out DeRosa admits that Cuomo purposely “froze” death totals so that the feds couldn’t prosecute him and that Trump would use it against him. How in the hell is not outright criminal action and how the hell is Andrew Cuomo NOT in jail for this? I don’t give a shit what your political party is, this should NOT be allowed to stand!
| Melissa DeRosa – top aide of Gov. Cuomo admits he “froze” nursing home death totals so feds wouldn’t find out |
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Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.
The stunning admission of a cover-up was made by Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.
“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”
In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”
“And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call.
“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t 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 weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.”
DeRosa added: “That played a very large role into this.”