27 April 2024: Confirmed: Cuomo to testify to Congress on 2020 COVID policy for nursing homes

Disgraced ex-NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo agrees to testify before House COVID-19 panel

The resigned-in-disgrace former governor of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo will comply with a subpoena to testify under oath to a Congressional subcommittee probing the consequences of his deadly 25 March 2020 directive to force New York state nursing homes to admit patients known to be infected with COVID in order to free up hospital bed space. Here's an excerpt from this report:

Disgraced former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has agreed to appear before a panel of House lawmakers and discuss his administration’s controversial handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York nursing homes, the chairman of the committee said Friday.

“Governor Cuomo will be appearing before our select Subcommittee on the Pandemic on June 11,” Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) told CNN host Jake Tapper.

“This will be a transcribed interview at 10 a.m.,” Wenstrup added, indicating that his testimony will take place behind closed doors.

Cuomo’s agreement to testify comes more than a month after the Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic issued a subpoena for his testimony.

Both former Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa and former NY State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker will both testify before the congressional panel. Both Cuomo and Zucker's names appear on the deadly directive.

This entry was added to the timeline on 29 April 2024.