Monday, May 03, 2021

3 May 2021: Governor Cuomo Claims "I Did Nothing Wrong"

Scandal-ridden Cuomo again declares 'I did nothing wrong,' says he's not resigning

This report illustrates why Governor Cuomo spent so many months hiding from direct contact with news reporters. No longer politically able to continue that cowardly strategy, it's not going well for him.

Cuomo was asked whether he would make decisions about his political future after the release of a report by Attorney General Letitia James on his alleged sexual harassment of many women, or if he would wait until after the state legislature's impeachment inquiry.

"I've already told New Yorkers where I am," Cuomo said in response to that question. "I did nothing wrong. And period and I'm not resigning and I'm doing my job every day."

Cuomo, whose ability to do his job has greatly diminished as a result of his scandals, would go on to blame the U.S. Department of Justice 26 August 2021 request for nursing home death data for his administration's April 2020 decisions to cover up the extent of those deaths and to doctor reports by New York's Department of Health to continue the cover-up in July 2020.

"Nursing homes is being looked at by the Eastern District. That was a political investigation started by Donald Trump, who politicized not just COVID, but then politicized nursing homes and policies towards nursing homes and wanted to blame Democratic governors like myself and Michigan and New Jersey and Pennsylvania," Cuomo said Monday.

Cuomo further called the entire Department of Justice under former President Trump a "political Department of Justice."

By contrast, the Biden Department of Justice only began investigating Governor Cuomo's nursing home deaths coverup in February 2021 after the Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa admitted the Cuomo administration's cover-up of the full extent of nursing home deaths during the period its deadly 25 March 2020 directive was in effect.

Here are other timeline entries related to comments Governor Cuomo made at his 3 May 2021 press briefing in Albany:

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