Tuesday, February 16, 2021

TAILSPIN: FOR THOSE OF US FOLLOWING THE ESCALATING NURSING HOME SCANDAL, ASSORTED ARTICLES, EMBATTLED GOV DESPERATE TO EXPLAIN AWAY LIES, ACCUSES LAWMAKERS OF EXTORTION

#1--Fellow Democratic legislators in New York weren’t buying Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s explanation Monday as to why he refused for months to release a true accounting of nursing home residents who died from the coronavirus.

Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens), whose uncle died from COVID-19, bluntly said, “all of it is BS” and a cover-up.  READ THE EXTENSIVE ARTICLE HERE.

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#2--An unapologetic Gov. Cuomo doubled down on a litany of past excuses Monday as he blamed “politics” for the spiraling scandal that’s engulfed his administration since The Post revealed his top aide admitted they hid from elected officials and the public the true number of nursing-home residents killed by COVID-19.  During a virtual news conference at which he declined to take a question from The Post, Cuomo claimed that “there’s nothing to investigate”. READ MORE  AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/15/cuomo-fails-to-address-nursing-home-cover-up-admission/

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#3--New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday blasted state lawmakers who have threatened to rescind his emergency powers and open investigations into his administration’s coverup of its mishandling of nursing home coronavirus deaths.  “You can’t use a subpoena or the threat of investigation to leverage a person,” Cuomo said in a briefing on Monday. “That’s a crime, it’s called abuse of process, it’s called extortion.”  READ MORE AT https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cuomo-accuses-ny-lawmakers-of-extortion-over-calls-to-investigate-nursing-home-deaths/

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UPDATED -- MORE BLAME GAME

“At no point did the Administration notify the legislature about a DOJ investigation,” one Democrat said - MORE AT https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ny-dem-lawmakers-rip-cuomo-explanation-nursing-home-data-delay-no-one-believes-you

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