7 May 2020: Cuomo Administration to Investigate Itself

Cuomo's Nursing Home Investigation May Present "Conflict Of Interest"

This article discusses the inherent conflict of interest that exists in how Governor Cuomo's investigation of nursing homes has been set up.

The investigation will be a joint affair between the state attorney general, a member of Governor Cuomo's political party, and the state's Department of Health, which oversees and regulates the state's nursing homes, and which is being exempted from being a target the investigation despite its role in forcing nursing homes to admit contagious coronavirus patients and in allowing infected nursing home staff to remain on the job contributed to the large and growing death toll at the state's nursing home facilities.