Probe finds Cuomo 'not fully transparent' on nursing home deaths

ALBANY, N.Y. — On Monday morning, the New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee released its findings from its probe into erstwhile Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The investigation, which started earlier Cuomo's resignation successful August, sought to analyse allegations of intersexual harassment against the erstwhile governor.

The probe besides looked into whether helium had directed his unit to "unlawfully withhold oregon misrepresent information" connected the effects of COVID-19 connected authorities residents, whether Cuomo had cognition of information concerns regarding bridges successful the state, and whether Cuomo "directed, oregon had cognition of, enforcement unit attempting to suppress related investigations."

In a missive written to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Charles Lavine shared the pursuing conclusions made successful the study to the committee made by investigators:

• Cuomo "engaged successful aggregate instances of intersexual harassment, including by creating a hostile enactment situation and engaging successful intersexual misconduct."
• Cuomo "utilized authorities resources and property, including enactment by Executive Chamber staff, to write, publish, and beforehand his Book regarding his handling of the COVID-19 crisis— a task for which helium was guaranteed astatine slightest $5.2 cardinal successful idiosyncratic profit."
• Cuomo "was not afloat transparent regarding the fig of nursing location residents who died arsenic a effect of COVID-19."

According to the letter, the committee hired Davis, Polk & Warwell LLP to pb the investigation. Investigators examined 600,000 pages of documents, which included substance and email communications, photographs, recorded telephone calls, video recordings, and different materials. They besides interviewed oregon examined anterior interviews with 212 people.

In a statement, Speaker Heastie wrote, "As we person passim this process, we volition proceed to cooperate with each applicable investigative bodies to supply them with the grounds we person uncovered.”

Read the study here:

This communicative was primitively published by August Erbacher astatine WKBW.