FBI Interviews Top NY Pol In Probe Of Cuomo Nursing Home Coverup
Federal investigators are interviewing some of New York’s top politicians as the investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s book deal and coverup of COVID-19 deaths in state nursing homes heats up, according to a new report.
The New York Post is reporting that the FBI interviewed the
chairman of the state Senate Health Committee as the probe into Cuomo
continues, including his multi-million dollar book deal on leadership that he
penned during the peak of the pandemic.
Bronx Sen. Gustavo Rivera said this week that he was
summoned to the FBI’s Brooklyn headquarters and interviewed for three hours by
federal prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office.
The probe into Rivera including prosecutors asking for
records and questions about the Cuomo administration’s cover-up of the total
number of nursing home deaths during the pandemic.
Rivera told the Post that he was also asked about a
provision in the state budget adopted in April 2020 that granted nursing homes
and hospitals broad immunity from criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits over
their treatment of COVID-19 patients.
Cuomo came under fire this week after it was reported that
his book deal net him more than $5 million as his staff undercounted nursing
home deaths and some of his top aides were called in to assist in writing the
memoir, which came out last fall as the state was still reporting dozens of
daily virus-related deaths.
According to the report, Rivera said that “we talked about a
little bit of everything — mostly the governor’s interaction with the
legislature throughout the pandemic.”
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