8 April 2023: Cuomo Faces Second Lawsuit Over COVID Nursing Home Deaths

Disgraced Gov. Cuomo sued a second time over nursing home COVID deaths

With the speed of molasses in January, the U.S. legal system is getting around to holding the resigned-in-disgrace former Governor of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, accountable for the outcome of his administration's deadly 25 March 2020 directive.

The following excerpt describes the second lawsuit Cuomo will face from the survivors of the family's whose members were exposed to COVID during the time Cuomo's deadly directive was in effect in early 2020.

Disgraced governor Andrew Cuomo’s “unmitigated greed” and mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the “needless” deaths of thousands of elderly New Yorkers, a Nassau man whose mother and father died from the virus claimed in court.

Cuomo, his top aide Melissa DeRosa, and state and health officials also exhibited “deliberate indifference” toward nursing home residents, leading to as many as 15,000 avoidable COVID deaths, Sean Newman claimed in a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court on March 28.

Those deaths include Michael and Dolores Newman, who died weeks apart in early 2020, their son said.

Sean Newman’s dad Michael Newman, 84, died at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach on March 29 that year, his son said.

His mom Dolores, 78, died two weeks later at the Long Island Living Center in Queens, according to the filing.

Sean Newman is married to Janice Dean, who became a leading advocate for justice for the victims of the Cuomo administration's deadly directive in the months following its implementation by the state government. The lawsuit follows the state government's failure to probe the Cuomo administration's policies' role in contributing to the high COVID death toll at the state's nursing homes in early 2020.