10 October 2023: House COVID Panel Threatens to Subpoena Cuomo Over Nursing Homes Scandals

House COVID panel threatens Cuomo subpoena for nursing home scandal records

There's finally some progress in the U.S. Congress among members of the House of Representatives seeking to probe the resigned-in-disgrace former New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's deadly 25 March 2020 directive and attempted cover-up of the extent of deaths that resulted, to name just two of Cuomo's COVID nursing home deaths scandals.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is weighing a subpoena of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo if he snubs their final request for records about his decision to place COVID-infected patients in nursing homes and long-term care facilities at the onset of the outbreak.

Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) threatened in a Tuesday letter to “evaluate” compulsory measures if Cuomo failed to produce documents about his administration’s COVID policies by Oct. 17, according to a copy of the missive exclusively obtained by The Post.

“To date, we have not received a single document from you. The Select Subcommittee is comprised of physicians from both sides of the aisle and members who take our responsibilities seriously,” Wenstrup wrote to the former governor.

“Contrary to your and your spokesman’s unfortunate statements, this investigation is the result of your clearly medically misguided decision to expose New York’s most vulnerable to COVID-19 by issuing the ‘must admit’ orders, which had predic[t]able but deadly consequences for 15,000 nursing home residents,” he added.

“Any attempt to cover up the truth and conceal culpability is not acceptable to the American people. The Select Subcommittee is committed to a transparent investigation and expects you to be forthcoming during this process.”

Cuomo's not the only governor who is being asked to provide these records to the House committee:

Similar records requests were also sent to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, whose responses are now being evaluated by the select subcommittee, according to a spokeswoman.

In our view, subpoenas to compel testimony are necessary. They may need to be directed to more former New York State officials than Andrew M. Cuomo.