{"id":1375899,"date":"2022-03-14T12:57:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375899"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:08:43","slug":"emails-disgraced-chris-cuomo-was-offered-rare-blood-plasma-treatment-while-disgraced-brother-was-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emails-disgraced-chris-cuomo-was-offered-rare-blood-plasma-treatment-while-disgraced-brother-was-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Emails: Disgraced Chris Cuomo Was Offered Rare Blood Plasma Treatment While Disgraced Brother Was Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Femails-disgraced-chris-cuomo-was-offered-rare-blood-plasma-treatment-while-disgraced-brother-was-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375899&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>As you may recall, back around Easter of 2020, former CNN personality Chris Cuomo came down with COVID. He made plenty of headlines at the time, though not just because of his illness. That was the same period of time when <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/14\/long-island-bicyclist-verbally-attacked-by-chris-cuomo-fires-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he went on a screaming rant<\/a> against a bicyclist who saw him out of quarantine on a property he\u2019d recently purchased in the Hamptons while failing to social distance from his family. (His wife later tested positive.) But <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/10\/chris-cuomo-offered-rare-covid-plasma-in-2020-emails-reveal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as the New York Post reports this week<\/a>, the younger Cuomo was offered some special family benefits as the sibling of the state\u2019s then-governor, Andrew Cuomo. There was an experimental blood plasma therapy being tested at the time and it was unavailable to pretty much everyone who came down with the illness. But Cuomo was offered the treatment if he wanted to try it out.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At the height of the pandemic, the CEO of New York\u2019s blood bank personally offered a coronavirus-stricken Chris Cuomo special access to an experimental therapy \u2014 virtually unobtainable by anyone unrelated to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, emails reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The half-billion-dollar New York Blood Center\u2019s boss, Chris Hillyer, offered \u201cconvalescent plasma\u201d to the then-governor\u2019s CNN host brother Chris Cuomo, on April 17, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the Cuomo family elect to take Dr. Hillyer up on his offer, his cell number is [redacted],\u201d Mary Ann Tighe \u2014 a real-estate mogul who acted as a go-between \u2014 wrote, according to emails obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information Law request.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Making this story even stranger is the fact that Cuomo turned down the experimental treatment. He said that it sounded \u201cspooky\u201d and that he didn\u2019t want to \u201ctry something that extreme\u201d when he wasn\u2019t dying. Of course, he wasn\u2019t above allowing the State Police to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/29\/new-details-on-cuomos-vip-covid-19-testing-scheme-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deliver COVID test kits to his door<\/a> at a time when they were as scarce as hen\u2019s teeth. And as the <em>Post<\/em> goes on to point out, turning his nose up at the plasma treatment was fairly insulting to the family of a teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/05\/city-teacher-whose-family-fought-for-potential-lifesaving-therapy-dies-from-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who died two weeks before<\/a> after trying and failing to get access to the treatment.<\/p>\n<p>This information was only one small part of a huge trove of emails between Chris Cuomo and the New York Executive Chamber from 2020 and 2021 released to the newspaper under the Freedom of Information Law. There\u2019s a lot more material to come, including more on his efforts to help polish Andrew Cuomo\u2019s reputation in the midst of all of the sexual abuse allegations.<\/p>\n<p>But this blood plasma therapy issue really seems to be rubbing a lot of people in New York the wrong way. Even one of the Democratic Party officials who was asked to comment said, \u201cI certainly hope the Blood Center isn\u2019t offering better treatment to the most powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s obviously what was going on. Andrew Cuomo ruled New York like an emperor and he made sure that his family and their inner circle sat at the most honored seats at the table. The people at the Blood Center clearly knew they needed to kiss the ring, so they made sure to let the Governor know that his little brother could have access to a potentially life-saving treatment that virtually nobody could access at the time.<\/p>\n<p>And, as already mentioned, we know for a fact that test kits were regularly sent to Chris Cuomo\u2019s home, delivered by State Police vehicles under the Governor\u2019s orders. The test kits were only just beginning to go into production in April of 2020. They were literally impossible for any rank and file New Yorkers to obtain at any price. And yet somehow the Governor\u2019s brother was being showered with them.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep that in mind as Andrew Cuomo continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2022\/03\/01\/the-andrew-cuomo-comeback-attempt-continues-n452115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push his \u201ccomeback\u201d efforts<\/a>, or at least an attempt to whitewash his ugly history. His top aide produced a television spot making it look as if he\u2019s been completely exonerated and I\u2019m still seeing it running on a daily basis on both CNN and the local Spectrum News channels. But these emails discovered by New York media outlets tell a far more accurate story of what was going on inside the Governor\u2019s mansion back then. And a lot of it was far worse than some unwanted cheek-kissing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may recall, back around Easter of 2020, former CNN personality Chris Cuomo came down with COVID. 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