7 March 2021: A Profile of Governor Cuomo's Ethically Challenged Defender

Linda Lacewell is Gov. Cuomo's 'Minister of Defense'

This brief profile of Linda Lacewell describes her central role within Governor Cuomo's administration.

One of the Cuomo Administration's top advisers, who reportedly pushed to hide nursing home death data, is known as the "Minister of Defense" and an "enforcer" for the embattled governor.

Linda Lacewell, a loyal Cuomo aide who heads the state Department of Financial Services, is among those who reviewed a July Department of Health report and directed the removal of COVID-19 deaths of nursing-home residents that occurred in hospitals, the Wall Street Journal reported....

The 57-year-old, who is not married, is said to be singularly devoted to Cuomo.

"She lived her life around him and his administration," said a former Cuomo aide....

Lacewell was once a prosecutor with the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, the same office that is now probing the Cuomo Administration's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic.

That last connection once again begs the question of how seriously the Biden administration will investigate Governor Cuomo's nursing home scandals.

Ethics professor who advises Cuomo caught scrubbing nursing home deaths from report by health officials

Amazingly, Cuomo administration official Linda Lacewell also teaches ethics at New York University. We can't make this stuff up.