A House subcommittee has referred former Gov.
Andrew M. Cuomo of New York to the Justice Department for potential prosecution, accusing him of lying to Congress about his involvement in a state Covid report on nursing home deaths.
Mr. Cuomo was accused of engaging in a “conscious, calculated effort” to avoid accountability for his handling of nursing homes where thousands of people died of Covid, according to the referral from the Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
The referral centers on closed-door testimony Mr. Cuomo gave to the committee, when he asserted that he had not reviewed a State Health Department report that deflected blame for the deaths of people in New York nursing homes in early 2020.
The New York Times reported last month that Mr. Cuomo had reviewed the report and had personally written portions of early drafts, according to a review of emails and congressional documents.
The subcommittee’s criminal referral of Mr. Cuomo carries no legal weight,Congress has no enforcement power and no formal say in what the Justice Department does.
In testimony before Congress, Mr.
Cuomo said the nursing-homes guidance followed federal guidelines, and pushed back on the assertion that his administration was to blame for nursing home deaths.
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