Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data from feds

Gov. Andrew Cuomo s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state s nursing home death toll from COVID-19 telling them we froze out of fear that the true numbers would be used against us by federal prosecutors, The Post has learned.

The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because right around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football, according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting.

He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes, DeRosa said. He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.

In addition to attacking Cuomo s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.

And basically, we froze, she told the lawmakers on the call.

via nypost.com

Ms. DeRosa comes out smelling like a complete psychopath in this account, which may be correct, and not at all as a tearful whistle blower, which I assume just glancing at the headlines. Perhaps the NY Dems are running from Cuomo just because they fear the reaction of NY voters once they figure out what happened and Cuomo’s role in it. Not a lot of ways you can spin the incompetence and callousness of the NY gov’s administration on this one.