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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is lawyering up as he faces dueling scandals.
His administration hired criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor Elkan Abramowitz.
Abramowitz will handle investigations into COVID nursing home deaths, a Cuomo official told Insider.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s administration has hired a criminal defense attorney to take point on one of the dueling scandals facing the high profile Democrat.
A Cuomo official told Insider that Abramowitz is only working on the nursing homes issue, not recent allegations of sexual harassment against the governor. The attorney has also worked with the New York executive chamber before.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was "truly sorry" if "some of the things I have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation." He called for an independent investigation of the allegations.
Josh Einiger has more on a bombshell report that New York may have drastically underreported COVID-19 nursing home deaths.
The AG s office also found that a larger number of nursing home residents died from COVID-19 than the New York State Department of Health s published nursing home data reflected and may have been undercounted by as much as 50%. Crucial information should never be withheld from entities that are empowered to pursue oversight, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said. This was always about getting the truth and allowing information to guide our response. That is why we had multiple hearings and another hearing scheduled for this month, and why we requested this information in the first place. Politics should not be part of this tragic pandemic and our responses to it must be led by policy not politics. As always, we will be discussing next steps as a conference.