30 April 2021: NYC Mayor Notices Team Cuomo Has Admitted They Covered Up COVID Nursing Home Deaths

De Blasio strikes back at Cuomo, says ‘everyone’s just admitting they covered up’

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has finally noticed the Cuomo administration, including Governor Cuomo, have admitted to covering up the full extent of COVID deaths among New York nursing home residents. We'll cut straight to his reported comments:

“It’s almost to the point where we don’t even need the full, formal investigation, because everyone’s just admitting that they covered up,” de Blasio said about the slew of charges of misconduct facing Cuomo, which prompted Democrats in the Assembly to even launch an impeachment investigation.

“I mean, this has been one after another piece of evidence that there was a full-fledged cover-up, that it was explicitly to help the governor sell his book — this was one of the motivating factors, a book that he used state employees to help write,” de Blasio continued.

“This is separate from the many, many allegations of sexual assault, harassment that so many women have come forward with in tremendous detail,” he added, before again reiterating his calls for Cuomo to step down or be removed from office. “It’s almost like you can’t believe this one person did all these things and is still in office, and that’s why I don’t think he should be in office any longer.”

What Mayor de Blasio is still very slow in processing is that the cover-up began long before Governor Cuomo's book deal was struck, which has recently been confirmed. We think the original motive for the cover-up was to escape criminal liability for implementing such an obviously negligent policy that would ensure the number of COVID deaths among New York nursing homes residents would be higher than it would have been without it. We think the book deal provided an additional incentive for continuing the cover-up.

Here is relevant information about how the timing of Governor Cuomo's book deal fits into the COVID nursing home deaths cover-up from the timeline:

• 25 March 2020: A Deadly Directive Is Issued - The implementation of this policy is why the Cuomo administration needed to cover up the full extent of COVID deaths among NY nursing home residents.
• 2 April 2020: Hospital Lobby Scores Legal Immunity from COVID Deaths - We think this act technically marks the beginning of the Cuomo administration's cover-up. After the deadly 25 March 2020 directive was issued, a powerful hospital and nursing home operator lobby used it for leverage to get Governor Cuomo to agree to give them legal immunity for COVID deaths among their patients and residents. Without it, they would have had much more incentive to speak up about the fatal consequences of the directive.
• 8 April 2020: New York DOH Won't Release COVID Nursing Home Death Data - This is one of the first reports of the Cuomo administration's stonewalling to prevent the public, the media, watchdog groups, state lawmakers, and federal officials from learning the full extent of COVID deaths during the period the deadly directive was in effect.
• 18 April 2020: NY DOH's Initiates Systematic Collection of COVID Death Data for Nursing Home Residents - This date marks the point from which New York's Department of Health began systematically collecting nursing home death data on a daily basis. Combined with its efforts to collect the data in the period preceding its regular data collection, it is clear the Cuomo administration had access to all this information for months.
• 15 June 2020: Governor Cuomo Begins Writing Book on His Pandemic "Leadership" - The book deal itself would have been struck a little earlier in June 2020, after being greenlighted by the staff of New York state's public ethics watchdog, the Joint Committee on Public Ethics. Governor Cuomo has not released the terms of the publishing contract, so the date it was signed is still not known at this writing.
• 26 August 2020: DOJ Seeks Nursing Home Death Data from COVID Patient Dumping States - This is the first time federal officials sought New York's COVID nursing home deaths data. Note that the Cuomo administration's cover-up initiated in April 2020....
• 28 April 2021: Confirmed - Team Cuomo Cover-up of NY Nursing Home COVID Deaths Began in April 2020

Exit question: When will NY state legislators notice the cover-up admission confirms Governor Cuomo and his administration violated state law and is an impeachable offense by itself?