(03-04-2021 05:27 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: Riker's Island is calling
It is only the precious (D) after his name that precludes this result. Any private citizen, or worse any ®, who manipulated public records resulting in the deaths of untold others would be arrested, prosecuted and jailed.
(This post was last modified: 03-05-2021 09:32 AM by AdoptedMonarch.)
(03-04-2021 05:27 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: Riker's Island is calling
It is only the precious (D) after his name that precludes this result. Any private citizen, or worse any ®, who manipulated public records resulting in the deaths of untold others would be arrested, prosecuted and jailed.
I don't understand why DOJ didn't do this last summer. For all the democrat moaning about "politicizing" the DOJ, republicans have never played hardball the way democrats do routinely.
(03-04-2021 05:27 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: Riker's Island is calling
It is only the precious (D) after his name that precludes this result. Any private citizen, or worse any ®, who manipulated public records resulting in the deaths of untold others would be arrested, prosecuted and jailed.
I don't understand why DOJ didn't do this last summer. For all the democrat moaning about "politicizing" the DOJ, republicans have never played hardball the way democrats do routinely.
(03-05-2021 09:40 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: I don't understand why DOJ didn't do this last summer. For all the democrat moaning about "politicizing" the DOJ, republicans have never played hardball the way democrats do routinely.
Quote:An explosive report released by the New York Times on Thursday night alleges that top aides to embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) rewrote a report that was prepared by New York Department of Health Officials in June 2020 to omit many of the nursing home deaths that had occurred in the state.
The report, which was based on interviews with unnamed officials in Cuomo's administration, alleges that the numbers were changed out of a desire to protect Cuomo from political fallout relating to his decision to order nursing homes to readmit patients who had tested positive for COVID-19. The changes were made months before the federal investigation into nursing home deaths in New York began — a significant development because aides to Cuomo have claimed that the administration withheld nursing home death data from the legislature because of the pending federal investigation.
According to the report, the controversy in the report centered on whether to include "out of facility" deaths — deaths that occurred when nursing home residents were transferred back to acute care facilities before their death — in the count of nursing home residents who died due to COVID-19. Department of Health officials wanted to include those deaths in the report, consistent with the practice being followed in most states.
However, Cuomo's aides, none of whom had any public health background or expertise, pushed back on the Department of Health in an exchange that the Times described as having gone "well beyond the usual process of the governor's office suggesting edits to an agency report," and led Department of Health officials to worry that the report that was going to be released was "no longer a true scientific report." The Times reports that health officials "feared for their jobs if they did not go along."
The Times report also notes that the controversial decision, which was allegedly carried out by top Cuomo aides Melissa DeRosa and Linda Lacewell, was finalized just days before Cuomo sought approval from a state ethics agency to earn money from book sales — ultimately, Cuomo was paid an advance of $783,000 by Harper Collins to write a book about how he handled the pandemic, due in large part to the fact that he had successfully convinced many people that his office had handled the pandemic well.
The report would ultimately declare that Cuomo's policies with respect to nursing homes were broadly consistent with federal guidance, but "may have put residents at increased risk of harm in some facilities."
In a response to a request for comment from the Times, Cuomo's special counsel Beth Garvey said that "the out-of-facility data was omitted after D.O.H. could not confirm it had been adequately verified," and that the additional death tolls would not have changed the conclusions of the report, if they had been included.
The report is sure to damage Cuomo's already-fragile standing in the state, after he has been dogged with repeated scandals regarding both his administration's truthfulness in the handling of nursing home death statistics, and numerous women who have accused the governor of inappropriate behavior and comments. The Cuomo administration's handling of the nursing home scandal, in particular, is under investigation by both the New York State Attorney General's office, as well as federal prosecutors.
As the scandal widens, even members of his own party have begun to suggest that he should resign, or that the emergency powers granted to him at the start of the pandemic should be removed.
Quote:An explosive report released by the New York Times on Thursday night alleges that top aides to embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) rewrote a report that was prepared by New York Department of Health Officials in June 2020 to omit many of the nursing home deaths that had occurred in the state.
The report, which was based on interviews with unnamed officials in Cuomo's administration, alleges that the numbers were changed out of a desire to protect Cuomo from political fallout relating to his decision to order nursing homes to readmit patients who had tested positive for COVID-19. The changes were made months before the federal investigation into nursing home deaths in New York began — a significant development because aides to Cuomo have claimed that the administration withheld nursing home death data from the legislature because of the pending federal investigation.
According to the report, the controversy in the report centered on whether to include "out of facility" deaths — deaths that occurred when nursing home residents were transferred back to acute care facilities before their death — in the count of nursing home residents who died due to COVID-19. Department of Health officials wanted to include those deaths in the report, consistent with the practice being followed in most states.
However, Cuomo's aides, none of whom had any public health background or expertise, pushed back on the Department of Health in an exchange that the Times described as having gone "well beyond the usual process of the governor's office suggesting edits to an agency report," and led Department of Health officials to worry that the report that was going to be released was "no longer a true scientific report." The Times reports that health officials "feared for their jobs if they did not go along."
The Times report also notes that the controversial decision, which was allegedly carried out by top Cuomo aides Melissa DeRosa and Linda Lacewell, was finalized just days before Cuomo sought approval from a state ethics agency to earn money from book sales — ultimately, Cuomo was paid an advance of $783,000 by Harper Collins to write a book about how he handled the pandemic, due in large part to the fact that he had successfully convinced many people that his office had handled the pandemic well.
The report would ultimately declare that Cuomo's policies with respect to nursing homes were broadly consistent with federal guidance, but "may have put residents at increased risk of harm in some facilities."
In a response to a request for comment from the Times, Cuomo's special counsel Beth Garvey said that "the out-of-facility data was omitted after D.O.H. could not confirm it had been adequately verified," and that the additional death tolls would not have changed the conclusions of the report, if they had been included.
The report is sure to damage Cuomo's already-fragile standing in the state, after he has been dogged with repeated scandals regarding both his administration's truthfulness in the handling of nursing home death statistics, and numerous women who have accused the governor of inappropriate behavior and comments. The Cuomo administration's handling of the nursing home scandal, in particular, is under investigation by both the New York State Attorney General's office, as well as federal prosecutors.
As the scandal widens, even members of his own party have begun to suggest that he should resign, or that the emergency powers granted to him at the start of the pandemic should be removed.
Quote:Two female aides have departed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) administration as the embattled governor reels from twin scandals sparked by his handling of coronavirus death data regarding his state’s nursing homes and allegations of sexual harassment.
Bloomberg News reported Friday:
Press secretary Caitlin Girouard and interim policy adviser Erin Hammond have left, the administration said on Friday. […] Girouard, who departed on Friday, had issued the statement last month denying sexual-harassment allegations of Cuomo’s first accuser, former economic aide Lindsay Boylan. She said Boylan’s claims were “quite simply false” in a statement issued on Feb. 24.
“Caitlin is a world-class, top-flight communications professional who is well respected in New York, Washington, and beyond,” Cuomo communications director Peter Ajemian said in a statement. “She’s been a real rock for our press shop, especially during the past year fighting the pandemic, and we wish her nothing but the best in her next chapter.”
Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Cuomo, said Hammond had planned to leave her post months ago.
“Her departure allows her to focus on her family,” Azzopardi said.
The development comes one day after the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported that top Cuomo aides pressed state health officials to revise a July report to solely count nursing home residents who died in long-term care facilities. Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, is said to have been involved in the matter. DeRosa also admitted that staffers withheld the number of coronavirus deaths in the state’s nursing homes to shield the Cuomo administration from a federal investigation, according to the New York Post.
It’s the latest blow for Cuomo, who’s been besieged by a one-two punch of scandals involving his handling of nursing home deaths and accusations that he sexually harassed two former aides and a woman that he met at a wedding he officiated.
Cuomo had apologized Wednesday for acting “in a way that made people feel uncomfortable” but rejected calls for his resignation and said he would fully cooperate with the state attorney general’s investigation into the sexual harassment allegations. Federal investigators are scrutinizing his administration’s handling of nursing home data.
Top Democrats in the state have said they want those investigations to conclude before they make a judgment about Cuomo’s conduct, but in the wake of Thursday night’s report, a few state lawmakers renewed calls for the governor to either resign or be ousted.
Quote:ALBANY, NY—Governor Andrew Cuomo has found himself in the middle of a sex scandal. When he found himself in hot water last year, though, for killing a bunch of seniors, he released a book about it. So, he called up his literary agent and quickly got a book proposal together. He landed a cool seven-figure deal in no time, and you can now pick up Hot New York Nights wherever books are sold.
The book follows the tale -- and tail -- of a domineering New York state governor who grabs women on the face and asks them if they'd like to be kissed. Steamy passages detail the governor's escapades with multiple women as he hits on them, forces them to kiss him, and pressures them for favors across New York's thriving nightclub scene. Finally, Cuomo and one of the women find some alone time in a recently vacated nursing home, and their passions overtake them.
Reviewers everywhere praised the work as groundbreaking, saying it renewed their love affair with the media's darling governor. "Honestly, I couldn't put this thing down!" said Brian Stelter, red in the face. "Is it hot in here? It's like, my, oh my! Just when you think it's finally cooling down, the book keeps ramping things up. Hot, hot, hot!"
Cuomo is up for a National Book Award, a second Emmy, and a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the novel.
(03-04-2021 05:27 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: Riker's Island is calling
It is only the precious (D) after his name that precludes this result. Any private citizen, or worse any ®, who manipulated public records resulting in the deaths of untold others would be arrested, prosecuted and jailed.
I don't understand why DOJ didn't do this last summer. For all the democrat moaning about "politicizing" the DOJ, republicans have never played hardball the way democrats do routinely.
Obama politicized the whole government in his 8 years and it is filled with partisan Democrats.
(03-04-2021 05:27 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: Riker's Island is calling
It is only the precious (D) after his name that precludes this result. Any private citizen, or worse any ®, who manipulated public records resulting in the deaths of untold others would be arrested, prosecuted and jailed.
I don't understand why DOJ didn't do this last summer. For all the democrat moaning about "politicizing" the DOJ, republicans have never played hardball the way democrats do routinely.
Obama politicized the whole government in his 8 years and it is filled with partisan Democrats.
So dump them and fix that.
It's even worse that that in the military. Purging all the competent warriors in favor of those with the "right" political views. Being able to sing Kumbaya is more important than knowing how to drive a ship, so our ships run into things.
Quote:Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s aides rewrote a report from state health officials to hide 9,250 Chinese coronavirus deaths in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
The New York Times details the coverup citing new documents and interviews with six people involved in the concealment of deaths.
Cuomo (D) faced early criticism in his state for ordering nursing homes to take patients who had tested positive for the coronavirus, as the elderly are among those most vulnerable to the virus.
After reports surfaced in February that Cuomo was intentionally hiding the numbers, the governor’s office explained he was withholding the truth to prevent then-President Donald Trump’s administration from using the data to launch a politically motivated attack.
Cuomo blamed the “toxic political environment” and “disinformation” for the revised numbers.
But the Times states Cuomo began hiding the truth about the numbers long before the Justice Department began their investigation in August.
The June numbers showed the actual death toll in nursing homes was “roughly 50 percent higher” than the numbers ultimately cited by the Cuomo administration, according to the Times.
The actual number of 9,250 nursing home deaths by June were much larger than the reported 6,432 nursing-home deaths — more than a 40 percent increase.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the governor’s advisers stripped the number of nursing home residents who died after they were transferred to a hospital from the report, making the death toll look better for Cuomo.
The doctored report, released in July, allowed Cuomo to continue trumpeting his success in fighting the virus in New York.
“Whatever happens, this is going to be a period to learn from,” Cuomo said in a radio interview on July 10, just after the doctored information was released. “I am now thinking about writing a book about what we went through, lessons learned, the entire experience, because if we don’t learn from this, then it will really compound the whole crisis that we’ve gone through.”
More than 15,000 New Yorkers in nursing homes and long-term care facilities have died from the Chinese coronavirus since March 2020.
Quote:Literally thousands of New Yorkers died in the state’s nursing homes during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, but a new Media Research Center study shows the national media are much less interested in covering that horrifying scandal than the sexual harassment accusations against Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo.
From the first network evening news mention of Cuomo’s nursing home scandal nearly ten months ago (on the May 11, 2020 NBC Nightly News) through Sunday night, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts have devoted a mere 15 minutes, 35 seconds to the story — most of which came after the January 28, 2021 report by the state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, charging that the Cuomo administration vastly under-reported nursing home deaths.
In contrast, in just the past 11 days those same broadcasts have devoted almost three times as much coverage — 44 minutes, 14 seconds — on allegations from several women that Cuomo sexually harassed them in recent years.
While both stories painted the Governor and his team in a highly unfavorable light, there’s no question Cuomo administration’s negligent nursing home policies had a much wider and more terrible impact. Yet that story was, inexplicably, getting far less attention from the national news networks — even as the overall pandemic had dominated newscasts for a full year.
Of course, last December it didn’t seem as though the harassment story would go anywhere, either. The networks couldn’t have cared less as they completely ignored the initial allegation against Cuomo, tweeted by former staffer Lindsey Boylan on December 13, 2020. Then on February 25, after Boylan expanded on her charges, only ABC’s World News Tonight bothered to even mention them (giving the news a scant 39 seconds), while the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News said nothing.
But the harassment story picked up steam after the New York Times reported that a second staffer, Charlotte Bennett, also accused Cuomo of wrongdoing, quickly followed by a third woman who said Cuomo grabbed her and kissed her at a wedding. This weekend, more former staffers also came forward to allege the Governor engaged in improper conduct.
These allegations have become the national media sensation that the far more lethal nursing home story had not. CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell devoted large portions of her newscast on Thursday and Friday to an interview with Bennett, who suggested the laudatory national media coverage Cuomo enjoyed in the spring of 2020 had “emboldened” him: “I think he felt like he was untouchable in a lot of ways.”
In 2020, MRC found 401 references to Cuomo on the evening newscasts, with only two mentions of the nursing home scandal amounting to a scant 51 seconds. From January 28 through February 25, as damning revelations showed how the Cuomo administration had covered-up the true death toll, these same newscasts only produced another 10 minutes, 56 seconds on the topic.
As the harassment story exploded on February 28, the nursing home story virtually disappeared from the newscasts, with ABC and NBC skipping it for three straight nights. The story garnered only four minutes, 34 seconds of additional coverage during the past week — roughly one tenth of what the networks gave to the harassment accusations — despite important developments: the state legislature stripped Cuomo of his emergency powers, and a New York Times report claimed the Cuomo administration intentionally doctored the state’s nursing home death toll in a report.
It’s not as if the media were trying to help the Governor — coverage of Cuomo’s harassment scandal has been absolutely devastating. So why can’t the national press put the same energy into covering the horrifying story of how Cuomo mishandled his state’s coronavirus response, with deadly consequences?
Quote:In news that will only shock Andrew Cuomo stans, the coverup of Cuomo’s policy that essentially sentenced thousands of New York State grandmas and grandpas to a tortuous and lonely death-by-COVID is far worse than previously known.
As our Townhall colleague Guy Benson writes, the New York Times is reporting that according to interviews they conducted and “newly unearthed documents,” Cuomo and his senior aides were actively engaged in an extensive operation designed to cover up what was happening and even blocking state health officials from doing their jobs:
Mr. Cuomo’s most senior aides engaged in a sustained effort to prevent the state’s own health officials, including the commissioner, Howard Zucker, from releasing the true death toll to the public or sharing it with state lawmakers, these interviews and documents showed.
A scientific paper, which incorporated the data, was never published. An audit of the numbers by a top Cuomo aide was finished months before it became publicly known. Two letters, drafted by the Health Department and meant for state legislators, were never sent.
Now, obviously, Cuomo didn’t want the truth to get out because it would highlight his incompetence and because people usually get really upset when bureaucrats kill their parents or grandparents (or aunts/uncles, brothers/sisters) – regardless of how much they otherwise agree with you politically. Oh, and there are the vainest and most terrible reasons as well:
The actions coincided with the period in which Mr. Cuomo was pitching and then writing a book on the pandemic, with the assistance of his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, and others.
Ah yes, the book and adulation from vapid celebrities and pundits. And Cuomo’s raging case of Trump Derangement Syndrome also played a role:
And they came as the governor’s approach to nursing homes was receiving intensifying scrutiny from critics and Republicans, including former President Donald J. Trump, whose administration made a public show of requesting nursing home death data from four states with Democratic governors, including New York.
As you’ll recall, Cuomo instituted a policy in March 2020 that prevented nursing homes from turning away people who had been discharged from the hospital following a Wuhan Flu battle. Unsurprisingly, covid deaths in nursing homes spiked; Cuomo’s administration then estimated the total number of deaths at 6,000. But, people who succumbed to covid in a hospital after being transferred there from a nursing home weren’t being counted as nursing home deaths, making it seem that there were far fewer nursing home deaths than there were.
The full data on nursing home deaths wasn’t released until January 2021, while Cuomo’s administration was aware of the actual numbers since Spring 2020. Cuomo is now facing an impeachment inquiry and multiple ethical investigations, including an investigation into sexual harassment/misconduct allegations, and allegations that he used state resources while writing his book.
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