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Feb 22, 2021 08:44 AM EST
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo s alleged undercounting of nursing-home fatalities amid the COVID-19 pandemic could rise to the level of a criminal offense, according to legal experts. The NY governor has found himself the focus of a federal probing into whether his administration sought to conceal the novel coronavirus pandemic s actual toll.
New York Gov. Cuomo s Nursing Home Scandal
According to John B. Daukas, who served as acting United States attorney general for the Justice Department s Civil Rights Division, numerous federal criminal statutes could apply. Daukas then mentioned Melissa DeRosa, the secretary of Cuomo, who unleashed a political firestorm the previous week when she divulged to state Democrats that the administration had purportedly concealed data on the number of coronavirus fatalities in nursing homes.
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