New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home scandal now has a “follow the money” angle, Fox News contributor and The Hill media columnist Joe Concha told America Reports on Friday. .
The New York Times reported late on Thursday that the Democrat’s top aides pulled a count of how many nursing home residents died in the coronavirus pandemic from a report released by state health officials in June.
The Times report noted that the Cuomo administration’s “extraordinary intervention” occurred when the governor was beginning to write his book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
“I never thought we would have a ‘follow the money’ angle in this story, as we see in so many scandals,” Concha told host John Roberts. “But when you look at what Governor Cuomo received as an advance – $ 783,000 from HarperCollins … that’s a terrible thing when you think about the kind of money that was involved here.”
Concha added that the changes reported in the report came at a time when Cuomo was enjoying enormous popularity.
“He had overall approval ratings of around 70%, the highest in his career. So yes, the right time to write a book and the wrong time to have bad news about nursing homes.”
Concha also said that the latest reports from the Times and The Wall Street Journal are “devastating for the governor who is … fighting on several fronts, not just in the nursing home scandal, which is the biggest story, but in the allegations of sexual harassment by three women. “
Concha also criticized President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their silence about the various controversies surrounding the New York governor.
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“Since Kamala Harris was chosen as Joe Biden’s running mate, she hasn’t given a press conference,” said Concha.
“I want to listen [Biden in-person] condemn Andrew Cuomo or say what he has to say about an investigation, [like] letting it happen. As we said yesterday, he is the first president in 100 years to not give a solo press conference in the first five weeks after taking office. “