6 May 2021: Senators Call for Hearings into Cuomo Nursing Home Deaths Cover-up in Congress

GOP Sens. Want Cuomo Probed Over Nursing Home Deaths

On 5 May 2021, Governor Cuomo called his administration's deadly 25 March 2020 directive "smart", despite it leading to the COVID deaths of at least 1,000 elderly New York nursing home residents more than would have died had it never been implemented.

This report indicates his response was triggered in part by a recent development in Washington D.C., in which several U.S. senators called for congressional hearings into the Cuomo administration's cover-up of the full extent of those deaths, following the New York Times' report describing how and when senior Cuomo officials altered several public reports as part of their efforts to conceal them.

Here that additional background:

A group of Republican U.S. senators on Wednesday called for a congressional probe of embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his alleged undercounting of nursing home deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, the GOP lawmakers urged that an investigation be opened and a hearing be held into the "horrifying and unacceptable" purported cover-up of the number of nursing home residents who died because of COVID-19.

The letter was signed by Sens Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska; Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; John Thune, R-South Dakota; Tim Scott, R-South Carolina; John Barrasso, R-Wyoming; and James Lankford, R-Oklahoma....

The senators' letter said: "We ask that you open an investigation and hold a committee hearing on New York's cover-up of nursing home deaths. Transparency and accountability are not partisan aims and must be taken seriously by this committee."

Appearing in Law 360, the article also identifies several of the lawyers and law offices representing the major participants investigating the Cuomo administration's scandals as well as the Governor's office.