21 May 2021: Cuomo VIP Priority Testing Continued Into April 2021

Preferential testing in N.Y. leads to a federal investigation into Cuomo, the latest in a slew of inquiries

It seems the "Looking Out for Numero Cuomo" VIP COVID testing scandal benefitting the Governor's family members, friends, and connected political associates continued far longer than previously known. This New York Times report indicates it continued into April 2021.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration granted special access to COVID-19 testing for his family and other “specials” as recently as April, according to a report by The New York Times.

Federal prosecutors that have been investigating Cuomo’s undercounting of nursing home deaths caused by COVID-19 since February are now looking into Cuomo’s priority testing program, the Times reported Wednesday.

Cuomo’s daughter, Mariah Kennedy Cuomo, and her boyfriend were tested for COVID-19 on April 3, the outlet reported. Their samples were labeled “specials,” and were processed within hours because they were going to spend Easter with the governor, two people familiar with the situation told The Times.

“They were going to come in contact with the governor,” Cuomo’s personal lawyer Elkan Abramowitz said. “It would be a proper exercise of discretion to give priority testing to anyone who came in contact with the governor.”

Multiple news outlets reported in March that Cuomo’s administration prioritized COVID-19 testing for his family and others connected to his administration during the early stages of the pandemic when there was a shortage of tests available to the general public.

Unlike the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, COVID testing is very easy to come by a year later. In that light, the VIP priority testing for Cuomo's family members in April 2021 is both unnecessary and looks very like an arrogant abuse-of-power. This new incident is an own goal.

Mariah Kennedy Cuomo (Age 26) is also a direct beneficiary of Governor Cuomo's pandemic book deal, with the Governor funneling money from the deal to his daughter via a trust.

The timeline has another entry focusing more on the expanding federal investigation of Governor Cuomo's "Looking Out for Número Cuomo" VIP COVID priority testing scandal.