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Families of NY Nursing Home Victims Rail Against DA for Dropping Cuomo Probe
Posted On 05 Jan 2022
A man who lost his father in a New York nursing home slammed the Manhattan district attorney’s office for dropping the probe of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration.
“What I would say to the new D.A. is start out with why was the strategy of the Cuomo administration to send positive patients to nursing homes as the only strategy rather than the absolute last?” Peter Arbeeny told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday. He also asked why families of those who died were not interviewed as part of the investigation.
Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean, who lost her in-laws in a nursing home that was impacted by New York’s order to open them to COVID-positive patients, thinks there was a deal made before the governor decided to resign.
“I think this was planned in advance. He was going to be impeached. And I think lawmakers got together and said listen if you step down now, we will drop the charges and you could run again. I believe this was all planned out.”
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is closing its investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing home COVID-19 deaths without bringing charges against Cuomo, according to the former governor’s attorney.
“I was contacted today by the head of the Elder Care Unit from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office who informed me they have closed its investigation involving the Executive Chamber and nursing homes,” Elkan Abramowitz, a former federal prosecutor who had been hired to represent Cuomo, said Monday. “I was told that after a thorough investigation — as we have said all along — there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken.”
The investigation was opened after a report last year by New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed that the state’s Department of Health underreported COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%.
Cuomo had directed nursing homes to accept patients who tested positive for or were suspected of having COVID-19 early in his pandemic response, a move that became controversial after thousands of elderly patients became infected with the virus.
New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Democrat, said the whole thing just sounds very “shady and fishy,” pointing to Cuomo’s friendly ties to the outgoing district attorney, Cyrus Vance, who was replaced by Alvin Bragg on Jan. 1.
“I just hope that the federal government still has their ongoing investigation. And the new governor, along with the state attorney general, would step up and finally deliver justice and accountability for our families,” said Kim, who lost his uncle in a nursing home in 2020.
Original Article: https://www.foxnews.com/media/victims-new-york-nursing-homes-slam-manhattan-da-dropping-cuomo-probe
Unfortunately money talks in this country.
I for one am sick of the law letting these good for nothings off the hook ,for all their dirty dealings.
Just because you have a place in politics you are never held accountable. And if they are it is a slap in the hand.
Make them pay just like the guy down the road would .
Just imagine if the governor was a Republican,he would be in jail waiting on death row.
Politics as usual. This is exactly what we have been used to for too many years now. Politicians taking care of politicians. Doesn’t matter if it’s democrats or republicans. They’re all the same.
This is despicable.Cuomo caused these nursing home deaths & should be held responsible for them. Ignorance is NOT BLISS, & I HOPE that EVERYONE who lost a relative due to Cuomo’s incompetence files a Civil lawsuit against him. N.Y. is so crooked! The D.A. will not prosecute. The A.G. will not prosecute. There is NO JUSTICE in the state of CORRUPT N.Y. POLITICS! It’s “TIME” for the DEEP STATE” N.Y. Dems to go! Vote them out, get rid of them,AND “GET BACK YOUR CITY AND STATE”!These Dem “cities” are BEYOND CORRUPT! THEY ARE EVIL!
Why not a class acción law suit?
This is INSANE!!! Well planned by the dems!!!!