House Oversight Refers Andrew Cuomo For Criminal Charges… Janice Dean Gets Last Laugh

Remember those official reports that swept Cuomo’s decision to pack COVID carriers into nursing homes under the rug? The House GOP remembers… and they want him prosecuted for it.

From the very beginning, ClashDaily was all over that story. We remembered what happened to the retirement homes in Seattle and it was obvious to us that was a VERY bad idea. New York pushed ahead with it anyway.

Here is a quick sampling of the stories we ran about Cuomo’s disastrous Covid response. What follows is by no means a comprehensive list, but it shows the evolution of Cuomo’s role in the middle of the Covid story… even as the country was echoing CNN talking points that he was the ‘heroic’ pandemic counterweight to Orange Man Bad, and they will bring us up to speed for the story that follows.

• April 24, 2020: Gov. Andrew Cuomo Sent COVID Patients To Retirement Homes–With A Supply Of Body Bags
• April 27,, 2020: Cuomo Finally Feeling Heat Over Nursing Home Fatalities
• May 8, 2020: NYC’s COVID Death Rate In Nursing Homes Is Due To Governor Cuomo’s Disastrous Policies
• May 22, 2020: SHOCKING: Cuomo’s Policy Sent More Than 4,300 COVID-Positive Patients Into Nursing Homes
• May 27, 2020: Memory Hole: Cuomo’s Order Forcing COVID Patients On Nursing Homes Scrubbed From Gov’t Website
• Jan 28, 2021: HEY KILLER CUOMO: Your AG Says You’ve Been Cooking The Books On Nursing Home Deaths… Why?
• Feb 3, 2021: FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP: Why Andrew Cuomo Lost NINE Key Officials Over COVID Conflicts
• Feb 12, 2021: CUOMO’S COVID COVERUP: Aid Comes Clean About New York’s REAL Nursing Home Death Toll
• Feb 15, 2021: WATCH: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Blame-Shifts On Nursing Home Deaths Despite Exposure Of Cover-Up
• March 2, 2021: LUV GOV LAWYERS UP: Cuomo Hires Defence Lawyers For Granny-Killing COVID Inquiry
• March 5, 2021: KILLER CUOMO: Staffers Testify Report Numbers Were Deliberately Fudged . . . And It Gets Worse
• March 9, 2021: WATCH: Will Cuomo’s Own ‘Penalty Of Perjury’ Words About Reporting Deaths Come Back To Haunt Him?
• August 25, 2021: Newly-Minted New York Governor Kathy Hochul Admits Cuomo Admin Didn’t Report 12,000 COVID Deaths
• May 3, 2022: SICK: Dems Stonewalling Inquiry Into New York Nursing Home COVID Deaths
• September 20, 2024: Andrew Cuomo: Nursing Home Scandal Worsens As Emails Contradict His Testimony

Criminal Referral

With a series of stories like that (and many more like them) it’s hard to believe he’s not yet faced charges for either his role in the wrongful death of all those people, or at the very least, how he has been exposed as cooking the books after openly threatening nursing homes with perjury charges.

Despite no end of stonewalling, House Oversight has looked into New York’s nursing home tragedies, and have decided that there is reason to recommend criminal charges.

After the Biden Justice Department refused to act, today House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) resent a criminal referral to the Attorney General Pam Bondi recommending former New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo be charged with making false statements to Congress. Evidence and witness testimony gathered suggest Mr. Cuomo knowingly and willfully made false statements to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on numerous occasions about material aspects of New York’s COVID-19 nursing home disaster and the ensuing cover-up. The Select Subcommittee’s investigation exposed Mr. Cuomo’s deliberate, self-serving effort to dodge responsibility for the thousands of lives lost in New York’s nursing homes during the pandemic.

“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. 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,” said Chairman Comer.

Overwhelming evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee proves that Mr. Cuomo reviewed, edited, and even drafted portions of a purportedly independent and peer-reviewed New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Report that was used to combat criticism of his Administration’s pandemic-era nursing home policies. This Report low-balled nursing home fatalities and blamed nursing home staff for causing excess COVID-19 deaths. During Mr. Cuomo’s transcribed interview in June, he testified (1) he was not involved in the review or drafting of this Report, (2) he did not have any discussions about a peer-review of the Report, and (3) he did not have any knowledge of individuals outside the NYSDOH reviewing the Report. Each of these statements are demonstrably false. In October 2024, the Select Subcommittee recommended the DOJ review the evidence laid out in a criminal referral and immediately evaluate criminal charges against Mr. Cuomo. (Full press release here)

Team Biden didn’t press charges? Hardly surprising.

But Team Biden isn’t in charge anymore, are they?

As the Democrats so loved reminding us… nobody is above the law.

If they could lock people like Bannon away for the duration of an election cycle for refusing to violate Executive Privilege, then Cuomo (who didn’t mind threatening others with perjury charges) should expect to be held to that very same standard.

With Pam Bondi in office… it just might happen.

It won’t bring back people like Janice Dean’s in-laws who died as infection tore through their nursing homes. But it just might bring some closure to the grieving families.