{"id":156925,"date":"2021-02-21T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=156925"},"modified":"2021-02-21T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:28:34","slug":"new-york-lawmakers-inching-toward-a-bipartisan-impeachment-probe-against-andrew-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-lawmakers-inching-toward-a-bipartisan-impeachment-probe-against-andrew-cuomo\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Lawmakers \u2018Inching\u2019 Toward A Bipartisan Impeachment Probe Against Andrew Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fnew-york-lawmakers-inching-toward-a-bipartisan-impeachment-probe-against-andrew-cuomo%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=156925&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1228918210.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A New York Democratic lawmaker who, last week, claimed New York governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-fbi-u-s-attorney-investigating-cuomo-administration-over-nursing-home-deaths\">Andrew Cuomo threatened his career<\/a> if he did not help to \u201ccover up\u201d a scandal over Cuomo\u2019s decision to send potentially COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes and adult care facilities, now says that he and his colleagues are \u201cinching\u201d toward a bipartisan impeachment probe against the governor.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive Democratic New York Assemblyman Ron Kim\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1E_6ZOuxdvmM9-x4X7BzMPbXFhMLNjI2-qTcgBlURdHA\/edit#gid=0\">claimed to CNN last Wednesday<\/a> that Cuomo threatened his career if he did not help \u201ccover up\u201d allegations that Cuomo\u2019s staff deliberately \u201cconcealed the full extent of nursing home-related deaths during the Covid pandemic,\u201d the Daily Wire reported last week.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Kim told Yahoo News, that \u201csupport is building within the state legislature to begin an impeachment investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take a little time to build that consensus, but every day we are inching toward the impeachment process,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ny-assemblyman-lawmakers-are-inching-toward-cuomo-impeachment-probe-224110717.html\">Yahoo News\u2019 podcast<\/a>. \u201cHe estimated that, along with \u2018virtually all\u2019 Republicans, between 25 and 30 Democratic legislators currently support an impeachment inquiry into Cuomo \u2014 a number he suggested is growing steadily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-fbi-u-s-attorney-investigating-cuomo-administration-over-nursing-home-deaths\">Albany Times-Union reported<\/a> that the FBI, in partnership with the United States Attorney\u2019s office in Brooklyn, has opened an investigation into the Cuomo administration, reportedly tied to Cuomo\u2019s order, made early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, requiring nursing homes and other adult care facilities accept recovering coronavirus patients, even if they might still be contagious.<\/p>\n<p>The policy, which was rescinded just two months later, may have been responsible for thousands of COVID-19 deaths, particularly among vulnerable populations, including the elderly and the black community. Although the mainstream media largely ignored claims that Cuomo\u2019s nursing home policy may have contributed to New York\u2019s status as the epicenter of the American COVID-19 pandemic as they were being made over the summer, in early February, a senior Cuomo aide reportedly told Democrats that the state had deliberately downplayed the number of nursing home deaths so as to elude a federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo has since fallen under sharp criticism from both parties and, last week, New York Democrats hit back at Cuomo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-ny-democratic-leaders-move-to-strip-gov-cuomo-of-emergency-powers-amid-federal-investigation\">moving to strip the governor of his emergency pandemic powers<\/a> pending the outcome of the reported Federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStripping Cuomo of his emergency powers granted during the COVID-19 outbreak would be a stunning rebuke of the governor\u2019s handling of the pandemic by his party allies in the state legislature, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/17\/nyregion\/cuomo-nursing-homes-deaths.html\">The New York Times<\/a>,\u201d the Daily Wire reported last week. \u201cA vote on the motion to strip the governor of emergency authority could come as soon\u201d as this week.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, for his part, seemed to acknowledge to Yahoo that the federal probe centers around Cuomo\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and that Cuomo is being investigated for \u201cobstruction of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim said that \u201che has been told the investigation is focused in part on \u2018obstruction of justice\u2019 and that as part of that he is fully prepared to recount his phone call to federal authorities,\u201d Yahoo News reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I\u2019m prepared to comply and spend as much time handing over as much evidence as they want,\u201d he said. \u201cI expect many of us to be contacted very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither the FBI nor the US Attorney has commented on the case.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Democratic lawmaker who, last week, claimed New York governor Andrew Cuomo threatened his career if he did not help to \u201ccover up\u201d a scandal over Cuomo\u2019s decision &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273872,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1228918210.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"New York Lawmakers \u2018Inching\u2019 Toward A Bipartisan Impeachment Probe Against Andrew Cuomo","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1228918210.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"New York Lawmakers \u2018Inching\u2019 Toward A Bipartisan Impeachment Probe Against Andrew Cuomo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}