2 June 2022: GOP to Probe Cuomo COVID Nursing Home Deaths Scandals If Party Wins U.S. Congress

Migrant flights, Cuomo coverup top Stefanik’s GOP probe priority list

This report was published on 30 May 2022 (Memorial Day). It indicates that should the Republican party gain a majority in the U.S. Congress in the next elections, it will investigate the role that Andrew M. Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive and his administration's subsequent cover-up of the full extent of excess COVID deaths that resulted from it. Here's an excerpt that addresses the potential probe of Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals:

Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik, the powerful GOP House Conference Chair, has vowed to subpoena the Department of Homeland Security for information about secret flights of migrants into New York state if Republicans regain control of Congress following this fall’s midterm elections....

In addition to the migrant flights, Stefanik also wants to subpoena Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration for records tied to disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s coverup of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 as a result of his pandemic policies.

“I want to go back to the very beginning,” she said, starting from when the infamous “March 25th order” was implemented requiring nursing homes to admit “medically stable” COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals.

Independent experts estimate at least 1,000 more deaths occurred in long-term care facilities thanks to the order. More than 15,000 residents died from the deadly virus — either inside long-term care facilities or after being transferred to hospitals because they were so ill, New York State Department of Health data shows.

The next part is interesting, because it's the first to suggest that replacement NY governor Kathy Hochul may have more knowledge about Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals than she's indicated:

“I want to know how much Kathy Hochul knew — because she definitely knew. She was a sitting lieutenant governor, she had access to that data on a daily basis,” Stefanik charged.

Hochul recently announced her administration is hiring independent experts to conduct a review of New York’s COVID-19 response, including a probe into how the state’s policies impacted those in nursing homes.

Given the toxic environment that Cuomo fostered within the Executive Mansion, we think it's quite possible Hochul was kept in the dark in many areas where Cuomo abused his power. However, we also think Hochul's failure to seek any probe into Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals for nine full months after she assumed power on 24 August 2021 legitimately opens the door to this inquiry. That's because her strange inaction reeks of a political cover-up, where instead of seeking justice for Cuomo's victims and their families, she sought to protect her political party's interests in holding power by deliberately choosing to look the other way. She may unfortunately find that makes her politically complicit after the fact in Cuomo's scandals.