Janice Dean asked President Joe Biden to reopen the DOJ investigation into Governor Cuomo and “do it” after news that the governor’s aide admitted to covering up the number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes.
The Fox News senior meteorologist criticized Biden and democratic lawmakers for “patting Cuomo” and “protecting” Cuomo during an appearance on “Fox & Friends”.
“This needs to be an investigation,” said Dean. “We need all the law on that and I heard that President Biden rejected the DOJ process, so you know what I’m going to keep crying from the top of the mountains on.”
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Dean said he had never spoken about a political topic before, said that despite being grateful to those who released the story and want “justice”, the story did not get the coverage she would have liked to have seen in the media industry.
Dean, who lost both parents to COVID-19 at the nursing home, said Cuomo’s actions are “atrocious” and that he and anyone involved in the cover-up must be “punished to the fullest extent of the law”.
Melissa DeRosa, secretary of Governor Andrew Cuomo, tried to back down an earlier admission that the state purposely withheld mortality data from the COVID-19 nursing home, insisting on Friday that the governor’s office was “comprehensive and transparent” in responding to the Trump administration’s Justice Department record requests.
In a phone call with Democratic lawmakers from New York on Thursday, DeRosa said the Cuomo government feared that data on COVID-19 deaths could “be used against us” by the Justice Department in the middle of its federal investigation initiated against four states regarding deaths in nursing homes, including New York.
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“We were in a position where we were not sure whether what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we gave you, what we started to say, would be used against us while we were not sure if there would be an investigation,” DeRosa told lawmakers, according to the New York Post, which first released the information.
Vandana Rambaran and Fox News’ New York Post contributed to this report.