{"id":52137,"date":"2021-02-12T06:34:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T10:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52137"},"modified":"2021-02-12T06:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T10:34:40","slug":"bombshell-witness-killer-cuomo-caught-in-geriatric-genocide-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52137","title":{"rendered":"BOMBSHELL WITNESS! “Killer Cuomo” Caught in Geriatric Genocide Cover-up<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuomo Coverup? Aide Admits Nursing Home Data Purposefully Concealed So Feds Wouldn’t Find Out<\/strong><\/h1>\n

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top aide\u00a0privately apologized<\/strong>\u00a0to Democratic lawmakers over a decision to\u00a0withhold the state’s nursing-home COVID-19 death toll<\/strong>\u00a0out of fear that it would be “used against us” by the Trump Justice Department, according to the\u00a0New York Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Melissa DeRosa, Secretary to the Governor,\u00a0made the shocking admission during a two-hour video conference call with Democratic leaders<\/strong>\u00a0– telling them that the Cuomo administration stonewalled after the\u00a0State Senate<\/a>\u00a0requested the information in August.<\/p>\n

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NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Melissa DeRosa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football, says DeRosa in an audio recording of the meeting.<\/p>\n

“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” she continues. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”<\/p>\n

DeRosa then suggested that Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us,” and because of this, “basically, we froze<\/strong>” she said.<\/p>\n

“Because\u00a0then we were in a position where we weren\u2019t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice<\/strong>, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying,\u00a0was going to be used against us while\u00a0we weren\u2019t sure if there was going to be an investigation<\/u><\/strong>.<\/u>”<\/p>\n

“That played a very large role into this,” DeRosa added.<\/p>\n

After dropping the bombshell, DeRosa asked for \u201ca little bit of appreciation of the context\u201d and offered what appears to be the Cuomo administration\u2019s first apology for its handling of nursing homes amid the pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n

But instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors or the critics who say the Health Department spread COVID-19 in the care facilities with a March 25 state Health Department directive that nursing homes admit infected patients,\u00a0DeRosa tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats for the political inconvenience it caused them<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo we do apologize<\/strong>,\u201d she said. \u201cI do understand the position that you were put in. I know that it is not fair. It was not our intention to put you in that political position with the Republicans<\/strong>.\u201d –New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Democratic Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried (Manhattan) was livid<\/strong>, shooting back “\u201cI don\u2019t have enough time today to explain all the reasons why I don\u2019t give that any credit at all.” Gottfried had requested the death-toll data in August along with several other lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Another state lawmaker\u00a0who was “battered during her re-election bid last year over the issue of nursing home deaths<\/strong>”\u00a0<\/strong>slammed DeRosa as well – saying that her former opponent used the nursing home scandal against her.<\/p>\n

“And the issue for me, the biggest issue of all is feeling like I needed to defend \u2014 or at least not attack \u2014 an administration that was appearing to be covering something up,” said State Senate Aging Committee Chairwoman Rachel May (D-Syracuse). “And in a, in a pandemic, when you want the public to trust the public-health officials, and there is this clear feeling that they\u2019re not coming, being forthcoming with you, that is really hard and it remains difficult.”<\/p>\n

Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim (D) told the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0that DeRosa’s remarks came off “like they admitted that they were trying to dodge having any incriminating evidence that might put the administration or the [Health Department] in further trouble with the Department of Justice<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s how I understand their reasoning of why they were unable to share, in real time, the data,” Kim added. “They had to first make sure that the state was protected against federal investigation<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not enough how contrite they are with us,” Kim continued. “They need to show that to the public and the families \u2014 and they haven\u2019t done that.”<\/p>\n

In addition to stonewalling lawmakers on the the total number of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19,\u00a0Cuomo\u2019s administration also refused requests from the news media \u2014 including The Post \u2014 and fought a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the Empire Center on Public Policy<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Instead, it only disclosed data on the numbers of residents who died in their nursing homes.<\/em><\/p>\n

But after Attorney General Letitia James last month released a damning report that estimated the deaths of nursing-home residents in hospitals would boost the grim tally by more than 50 percent,\u00a0Health Commissioner Howard Zucker finally\u00a0released figures<\/a>\u00a0showing the combined total was 12,743 as of Jan. 19<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just a day earlier, the DOH was only publicly acknowledging 8,711 deaths in nursing homes<\/strong>. –New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Following the release of AG James’ report, Cuomo callously said during a news conference that it didn’t matter where nursing home fatalities ultimately occurred.<\/p>\n

“Who cares [if they] died in the hospital, died in a nursing home? They died,” he said.<\/p>\n

Cuomo’s office appears to have made this disclosure after\u00a0they figured they were in the clear<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“All signs point to they are not looking at this, they\u2019ve dropped it,” said DeRosa, of the Biden DOJ. “They never formally opened an investigation. They sent a letter asking a number of questions and then we satisfied those questions and\u00a0it appears that they\u2019re gone<\/strong><\/em>.”<\/p>\n