1 March 2021: Secretary DeRosa to Team Cuomo - Keep Doing Your Jobs, Ignore Scandals

Melissa DeRosa email omits harassment, nursing home scandals

This article indicates Governor Cuomo's administration is limiting discussions of its scandals in its official communications.

Gov. Cuomo's top aide, Melissa DeRosa, urged administration underlings to just keep doing their jobs during this "beyond challenging" time — in a 'nothing-to-see-here-folks' message that failed to mention either the mounting sexual misconduct allegations or ongoing nursing home scandal roiling the administration.

DeRosa — whose stunning admission that the Cuomo administration hid the true toll of COVID-19 nursing home fatalities from the public and officials was exposed by The Post — thanked her underlings Sunday in a staff-wide email.

"This past year has been beyond challenging," she wrote, with the country coming on the one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. "There are no words for the extreme and daunting crisis that our world faced. But together, we navigated a once-in-a-century pandemic to the absolute best of our ability with one purpose held tight: to deliver for the people of New York."

But DeRosa's soppy note is void of any reference to the pair of predicaments plaguing Cuomo and threatening to topple his administration.