Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been criminally referred to the Department of Justice for allegedly making false statements to Congress.
“Andrew Cuomo is a man with a history of corruption and deceit, now caught red-handed lying to Congress during the Select Subcommittee’s investigation into the COVID-19 nursing home tragedy in New York,” Comer said in a statement. “This wasn’t a slip-up—it was a calculated cover-up by a man seeking to shield himself from responsibility for the devastating loss of life in New York’s nursing homes. Let’s be clear: lying to Congress is a federal crime. Mr. Cuomo must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The House Oversight Committee is prepared to fully cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation into Andrew Cuomo’s actions and ensure he’s held to account.”
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) resent his referral to Attorney General Pam Bondi after the Biden administration previously failed to act on the matter.
“To our knowledge, the Biden Administration ignored this referral despite clear facts and evidence,” Comer wrote to Bondi.
In October, Select Committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) sent a letter to former Attorney General Merrick Garland, writing that the subcommittee “believes that Mr. Curomo made false statements” about his involvement with the creation of a COVID-related report.
“Mr. Cuomo provided false statements to the Select Subcommittee in what appears to be a conscious, calculated effort to insulate himself from accountability,” the letter read. “The Department of Justice should consider Mr. Cuomo’s prior allegedly wrongful conduct when evaluating whether to charge him for the false statements” described in the document.
The matter pertains to the number of deaths in nursing homes connected to Cuomo’s COVID-19 policies.
