17 March 2021: Calls for More Investigations of Governor Cuomo and the Other Governors

New York GOP Reps Call For Federal Investigation Into Group Home Deaths Under Cuomo

The call for investigation here isn't into Governor Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals. The call is for an independent federal investigation of Governor Cuomo's smaller scale but otherwise almost identical COVID disabled group home deaths scandal.

A group of Republican U.S. representatives from New York are urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's handling of deaths at group homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Five out of the eight members of New York's GOP delegation, Reps. Claudia Tenney, Lee Zeldin, Nicole Malliotakis, Chris Jacobs and Elise Stefanik sent a letter asking Garland to launch an investigation on Wednesday. The move comes amid months of criticism and investigations of the Cuomo administration's underreporting of COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes, which the governor has claimed was necessary to avoid being targeted by the administration of former President Donald Trump.

"New York State's Policies placed those with intellectual or developmental disabilities at increased risk of exposure to COVID, and we fear COVID-related deaths in group homes have been underreported," the Republican lawmakers wrote to Garland.

The call for a federal investigation has been building since 8 March 2021 when the story broke above the scandal line. For more background into the issues New York's group homes for the disabled have faced as a result of the Cuomo administration's policies, be sure to review the entries for 14 June 2020, 10 March 2021, 11 March 2021, 14 March 2021, and 15 March 2021.

Elise Stefanik: Democratic governors who followed Cuomo nursing home policy should be investigated

Yahoo! News presents a short clip from Stefanik's comments on Fox News. The other governors who followed what we'll call a Cuomo-style COVID nursing home policy, in which nursing homes become dumping grounds for hospitals looking to move COVID patients out to free up space, include Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer, New Jersey's Phil Murphy, Pennsylvania's Tom Wolf, and Washington's Jay Inslee.

A sixth governor, California's Gavin Newsom, also implemented a similar policy, but rescinded it within several days, avoiding the subsequent excess COVID deaths that took place in the others.