{"id":259749,"date":"2021-03-19T22:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T02:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=259749"},"modified":"2021-03-19T22:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T02:45:33","slug":"fbi-zeroes-in-on-new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-aides-another-accuser-comes-forward-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-zeroes-in-on-new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-aides-another-accuser-comes-forward-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Zeroes In On New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Aides; Another Accuser Comes Forward: Reports"},"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\">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%2Ffbi-zeroes-in-on-new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-aides-another-accuser-comes-forward-reports%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=259749&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\/03\/fb_image-2273.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The FBI reportedly has its sights set on New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo and his aides in an investigation into his handling of nursing homes in the state amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported on Friday that the investigation has focused in recent weeks on the governor and his aides and whether they provided false information to the Department of Justice about the number of deaths that occurred in nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have contacted lawyers for Mr. Cuomo\u2019s aides, interviewed senior officials from the state Health Department and subpoenaed Mr. Cuomo\u2019s office for documents related to the disclosure of data last year, the people said,\u201d the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/19\/nyregion\/cuomo-nursing-homes-covid.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe interviews have included questions about information New York State submitted last year to the Justice Department, which had asked the state for data on Covid-19 cases and deaths in nursing homes, according to the people. False statements in such a submission could constitute a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s nursing home scandal <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/28\/ny-nursing-home-covid-deaths-50-higher-than-stated-ag-probe\/\">exploded<\/a> in late January after state Attorney General Letitia James announced that the number of nursing home deaths could be more than 50 percent higher than what Cuomo\u2019s administration reported. The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/11\/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds\/\">reported<\/a> a couple of weeks later an explosive video conference call where Cuomo\u2019s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, \u201cprivately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state\u2019s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 \u2014 telling them \u2018we froze\u2019 out of fear that the true numbers would \u2018be used against us\u2019 by federal prosecutors.\u201d The Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/04\/nyregion\/cuomo-nursing-home-deaths.html\">reported<\/a> that DeRosa and other aides allegedly altered a report from state health officials in June about how many seniors had died in nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p>The Times noted that the FBI has traveled to nursing homes across the state gathering information while interviewing other individuals involved with the case over the phone. \u201cFederal investigators also started questioning state officials this month about a provision in last year\u2019s state budget that gave legal protections to hospitals and nursing homes during the pandemic,\u201d the Times added. \u201cInvestigators\u2019 questions about the nursing home provision were first reported by The City, a local nonprofit newsroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Cuomo faces another scandal involving claims of alleged sexual misconduct that have been made against him by several women, including some who worked for him.<\/p>\n<p>The Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/19\/nyregion\/alyssa-mcgrath-cuomo-harassment.html\">reported<\/a> separately:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>The scandal that has engulfed the governor, leading most of the state\u2019s Democratic leaders to call for his resignation, began with the accounts of two former employees, Lindsey Boylan, a former economic development official, and Charlotte Bennett, an executive assistant and senior briefer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Friday, another accuser came forward and alleged that Cuomo sexually harassed her at work and had a \u201cpattern of the governor mixing flirtatious banter with more personal comments, as well as a subtle and persistent cultivation of competitive relationships between female co-workers in his office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI reportedly has its sights set on New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo and his aides in an investigation into his handling of nursing homes in the state amid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310856,"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\/03\/fb_image-2273.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI Zeroes In On New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Aides; Another Accuser Comes Forward: Reports","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2273.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"FBI Zeroes In On New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Aides; Another Accuser Comes Forward: Reports","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259749","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=259749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}