We're playing a bit of catch up following our last "live" post on 13 October 2022. We added this story to the timeline on 30 October 2022.
- Stefanik pledges investigation into Cuomo nursing home order if GOP takes House majority
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The run-up to the 2022 mid-term elections have featured very little news about Andrew M. Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals, but this story broke through the election noise. Here's an excerpt of WRGB's coverage:
Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik appearing in Rensselaer County Monday to make a big announcement.
She is pledging a congressional investigation into New York's nursing home deaths during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rep. Stefanik says this investigation would look into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s March 2020 order that saw COVID-19 positive residents readmitted to nursing homes. That order has been blamed for thousands of deaths. Stefanik appeared outside the county's Van Rensselaer Manor nursing home in East Greenbush....
Stefanik said,
“Make no mistake there must be accountability and there must be transparency and answers... That did not abide by CMS guidance.”
Stefanik says if Republicans take the majority in Congress after the midterms, they would have subpoena power -- so they could compel Cuomo to testify.
The lack of legal subpoena power to compel testimony about Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals has been a consistent factor limiting the few probes that have taken place to date. It's a much needed remedy to the alternative of sweeping the scandals under the rug.
