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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 4773761" data-attributes="member: 1940"><h3><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds/" target="_blank">Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out&nbsp; </a>&nbsp; </h3>Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/ny-nursing-home-covid-deaths-50-higher-than-stated-ag-probe/" target="_blank">withholding the state’s nursing home death toll</a> from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/doj-probes-nursing-home-deaths-in-4-states-including-in-ny/" target="_blank">by federal prosecutors</a>, The Post has learned.The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/pols-seek-accounting-of-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths-under-cuomo/" target="_blank">rebuffed a legislative request</a> for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”“And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call.Cuomo lied and people died. Shameful, and criminal yet Cuomo was celebrated and wrote a book. What a joke!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 4773761, member: 1940"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds/'][SIZE=5]Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out [/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=5] [/SIZE][/HEADING] Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for [URL='https://nypost.com/2021/01/28/ny-nursing-home-covid-deaths-50-higher-than-stated-ag-probe/']withholding the state’s nursing home death toll[/URL] from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear that the true numbers would “be used against us” [URL='https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/doj-probes-nursing-home-deaths-in-4-states-including-in-ny/']by federal prosecutors[/URL], The Post has learned. The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had [URL='https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/pols-seek-accounting-of-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths-under-cuomo/']rebuffed a legislative request[/URL] for the tally in August because “right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,” according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting. In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.” “And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call. Cuomo lied and people died. Shameful, and criminal yet Cuomo was celebrated and wrote a book. What a joke! [/QUOTE]

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