11 February 2023: Cuomo, DeRosa May Face U.S. House Subpoena in COVID Nursing Home Deaths Probe

Andrew Cuomo, Melissa DeRosa could face subpoena in House COVID probe

It has been months since we've had a news article covering a new aspect of Andrew M. Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals. This article breaks the story that both Cuomo and his former executive secretary Melissa DeRosa may soon each receive a subpoena to testify about Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive and its aftermath before the U.S. Congress. Here's an excerpt:

Disgraced former Gov. Cuomo may be hauled before Congress this year to answer for the state’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his deadly executive order forcing nursing homes to accept infected individuals.

Cuomo, and other top state officials, are currently being scrutinized by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

“It’s quite possible that the committee will subpoena either [former] Gov. Cuomo or his former chief of staff Melissa DeRosa,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Staten Island Republican.

Past efforts by the GOP to get answers from top officials in New York were stymied because they were in the minority — something that is no longer the case.

“Now we’re in the majority and now we’re in a position to subpoena,” Malliotakis said, saying she had already raised the Cuomo issue to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky).

Such a probe is long overdue. The big question? Will the New York state legislature ever conduct its own probe of Andrew M. Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals?