18 May 2021: Movement in FBI Investigation of Cuomo Scandals

FBI interviews top NY pol in probe of Gov. Cuomo over nursing homes, book deal

This report presents new information confirming the FBI is investigating Governor Cuomo and his administration's cover-up of the full extent of COVID nursing home deaths reported to federal officials.

Federal investigators interviewed the chairman of the state Senate Health Committee as part of its probe into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes amid the coronavirus pandemic — including his $5.1 million book deal, The Post has learned.

State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-The Bronx) said Tuesday that he was summoned to the FBI’s Brooklyn headquarters earlier this month and interviewed for nearly three hours by agents and prosecutors from the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office.

“We talked about a little bit of everything — mostly the governor’s interaction with the legislature throughout the pandemic,” Rivera told The Post.

The investigators also asked Rivera for records to corroborate what he told them, he said.

Many questions involved the Cuomo administration’s cover-up of the total nursing home death toll from COVID-19, Rivera said....

Rivera said he was also asked about a provision in the state budget adopted in April 2020 that granted nursing homes and hospitals broad immunity from criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits over their treatment of COVID-19 patients.

As described in the report, Rivera would be a witness to the actions of the Cuomo administration in its months-long cover-up.