Friday, April 30, 2021

30 April 2021: Cuomo Book Deal a Motive for Continuing Cover-up of COVID Nursing Home Deaths

Janice Dean rips 'criminal' Cuomo over new nursing home bombshell: He lied to sell his $4M book

Here's an excerpt of one of the most prominent critics of Governor Cuomo's COVID nursing home policies' speculative comments in a recent interview:

Well, you have to ask why did they downplay those numbers for so long? And this is extensive. The extent that they went to make sure that this was not uncovered, right?

And he would go on these interviews on television when they would finally ask him the question about the nursing homes, he would give false information and he knew all along he was lying.

So why did he and his top aides, including Melissa DeRosa, go to such great lengths to make sure that no one would find out the real total of the deaths? I think it’s because it's criminal and he had a book to sell. A $4 million book.

There's also the little matter of avoiding criminal legal liability for their actions in office. That would have been the operating motive from the beginning of Team Cuomo's cover-up, since a lucrative book deal wasn't even on the table when the cover-up began in April 2020.

But once it was, it would most certainly contribute to the Cuomo administration's motives to sustain its cover-up.

Background from the timeline:

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