A Queens lawmaker is calling on state Attorney General Letitia James to investigate Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office alleged cover-up of the accurate count of …
A Queens lawmaker is calling on state Attorney General Letitia James to investigate Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office alleged cover-up of the accurate count of nursing home residents killed by the coronavirus. “I’m very troubled by this development,” Democratic state Sen. Joe Addabbo told The Post Friday. “The attorney general should conduct a full and complete investigation of what happened here with the nursing homes.” James previously issued a scathing investigative report of nursing homes that concluded the Cuomo administration low-balled the number of COVID-19 nursing home resident deaths by 50 percent — by excluding those who died in hospitals. Hours later, chastened state officials started released more complete data that increased the death tally by thousands. Addabbo was referring to published accounts of the Cuomo administration’s admission of scrubbing a higher death count of nursing home residents who died from COVID-19 from a final report issued by the state Health Department last July. Current law requires the attorney general to obtain a referral from the governor to investigate him or his administration. Lawmakers are pushing to change the rule. Meanwhile, the head of the state Senate investigations committee called on the Legislature to hold hearings on the allegations of a “falsified nursing home report.
