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Washington D.C. – The Department of Justice has decided not to investigate whether the civil rights of residents in New York’s government-run nursing homes were violated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial admission policy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday, the DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs told Representative Steve Scalise (R-La.), ranking member of that House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, that the investigation into New York in connection with potential violations of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act was over.
The New York Post reported that In August, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division requested information from New York in connection with a March 25, 2020, order from the state Department of Health that required nursing homes to admit “medically stable” COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals. The records were also requested from Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey, which adopted similar rules that the DOJ said “may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents.”