https://nypost.com/2021/07/23/doj-drops-civil-rights-probe-of-cuomo-nursing-home-covid-scandal/ excerpt Biden DOJ drops civil rights probe of Gov. Cuomo over nursing homes and COVID-19 By Bernadette Hogan, Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding July 23, 2021 | 9:20pm | Updated 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. In a letter Friday, the DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs told US Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), ranking member of that House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, that New York was off the hook in connection with potential violations of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act. 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. It also sought records 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.” “We have reviewed the information provided by these states along with additional information available to the Department,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joe Gaeta wrote Friday. “Based on that review, we have decided not to open a CRIPA investigation of any public nursing facility within New York, Pennsylvania, or Michigan at this time.” In a prepared statement, Scalise called it “outrageous that the Department of Justice refuses to investigate the deadly ‘must admit’ orders issued by governors in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan that resulted in the deaths of thousands of senior citizens.” “Where is the justice for nursing home victims and their grieving families? These deadly orders contradicted the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s] guidance, and needlessly endangered the most vulnerable among us to the deadly COVID-19 virus,” Scalise said. “Even worse, Governor Cuomo in New York intentionally tried to cover up the true death toll resulting from his mandate. Grieving families deserve answers and accountability. It’s unconscionable that Biden’s Department of Justice refuses to investigate the deadly actions that went against CDC’s medical guidance taken in these states.” Cuomo is still facing a potentially more serious probe by the FBI and the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office that was sparked by The Post’s revelation that a top aide privately admitted that administration covered up the total number of nursing home residents killed by the coronavirus. US Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-Glens Falls) said, “This decision from President Biden’s Department of Justice makes President Biden complicit in the criminal corruption scandal and coverup of deaths of thousands of vulnerable seniors.” *** A Cuomo spokesman declined to comment. more at the link
Not really surprising at all… elections have consequences and establishment protects establishment… be it D or R.
Lots of deaths that could've been prevented from government failure. Alternatively, the government is trying to get people vaccinated as cheap and easily as possible, and it's the public's own failure to make herd immunity a reality.
TErrible, corrupt. How biden goes off and says hes going to set a different tone then trump and now empowers another mob boss like to Trump in Cuomo. Bringing in a journalist abuser like Neera Tanden after saying they'll do it differently form Trump/Corey L. And lastly, the big question. How are voters and polls still favorable for Cuomo. The dude lied to your face, made millions while he had 'no time' during a pandemic making a book, going to the oscars, sinking it all in while covering up nursing deaths, bad policy, and threatening other law makers under his power. And now you're saying, its a witch hunt, lets bring him back? lol we need a psychology test for american voters on how often this witch hunt thing works. Same with trump, self serving mob boss with so many actual videos of him lying to his own voters...but nah, they'll goto death with that guy...on that hill...and for some reason people do the same with biden with his policy of stupidity,death,and waste for the last 30 years, i guess hes uncle joe afterall right? How do people keep buying this junk from the suits, is this an american education problem? We get the dumbest candidates and they win
In another article... And state Republican Chairman Nicholas A. Langworthy labeled the DOJ action a "purely political decision designed to protect Democrat governors like Andrew Cuomo from the prosecution he deserves." “The facts of his deadly corruption remain in plain sight, and we will not rest until he is held accountable and removed from office either through impeachment or at the ballot box,” Langworthy said. lol
