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You are here: Home / News / Local News / House Subcommittee Subpoenas Former Gov. Cuomo On COVID-19 Response

House Subcommittee Subpoenas Former Gov. Cuomo On COVID-19 Response

March 6, 2024 By WRFA Radio Leave a Comment

March 3, 2021 – Albany, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo provides a coronavirus update from the Red Room at the State Capitol. (Don Pollsrd/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)

A House subcommittee has subpoenaed former Governor Andrew Cuomo on his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

WTEN in Albany reports the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic wants Cuomo to provide testimony on an executive order issued on March 25, 2020.

The executive order reportedly placed COVID-positive patients in nursing homes, placing vulnerable New Yorkers in harm’s way.

The letter from the Subcommittee cited that the number of nursing home deaths was falsely reported in the New York State Department of Health Report. Furthermore, a report by New York Attorney General Letitia James claims that the number of nursing home deaths in New York was undercounted by as much as 50%.

According to reports, Governor Cuomo did not respond to the Select Subcommittee’s request for documents related to their investigation. The Subcommittee also states that they asked for a transcribed interview, but Cuomo’s attorney kept postponing the dates for the interview. Eventually, the attorney offered to reschedule the interview for August 2024.

Cuomo’s spokesman, Rich Azzopardi, said the subpoena was unnecessary because the former governor’s attorney, Rita Glavin, offered several dates in which Cuomo would voluntarily appear.“To be clear, Governor Cuomo has been and remains cooperative,” Glavin said in a letter to the committee, a copy of which was obtained by ABC News.

The subpoena requests Cuomo testify at a deposition on May 24.

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Filed Under: Local News Tagged With: Andrew Cuomo, COVID-19, Letitia James, New York State Health Department, Rich Azzopardi, Rita Glavin, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

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