Cuomo Subpoenaed by US House Panel on New York Covid Response

A House committee has subpoenaed former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to testify about his 2020 mandate forcing state nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit or re-admit potentially contagious and untested Covid-19 patients.

The subpoena compels Cuomo to sit for a May 24 transcribed closed-door interview in Washington before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Andrew Cuomo during a 2020 news conference

Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg

“Not only did the former Governor put the elderly in harm’s way, but he also attempted to cover-up his failures by hiding the true nursing home death rate,” Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup, the panel chairman, said in a statement.

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