House Republican Asks Trump Doj To Criminally Prosecute Ex-new York Gov Andrew Cuomo

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., referred erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to President Donald Trump's Justice Department for criminal prosecution. 

Cuomo – nan Democratic scion now considered nan current frontrunner successful nan New York City Democratic mayoral superior successful June – was first referred to nan Biden Justice Department for criminal prosecution successful October 2024. Former Rep. Brad Wenstrup, then-chairman of nan House Select Subcommittee connected nan Coronavirus Pandemic, said Cuomo made "multiple criminally mendacious statements" to Congress astir his handling of nan 2020 COVID-19 nursing location decease scandal. 

In a caller missive to Attorney General Pam Bondi connected Monday, Comer said "to our knowledge, nan Biden Administration ignored this referral contempt clear facts and evidence." He requested that Bondi reappraisal nan referral and "take due action." 

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a May 2020 news convention successful Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

"Andrew Cuomo is simply a man pinch a history of corruption and deceit, now caught red-handed lying to Congress during nan Select Subcommittee’s investigation into nan COVID-19 nursing location calamity successful New York," Comer said successful a connection Monday. "This wasn’t a slip-up – it was a calculated cover-up by a man seeking to shield himself from work for nan devastating nonaccomplishment of life successful New York’s nursing homes. Let’s beryllium clear: lying to Congress is simply a national crime. Mr. Cuomo must beryllium prosecuted to nan fullest grade of nan law. The House Oversight Committee is prepared to afloat cooperate pinch nan Justice Department’s investigation into Andrew Cuomo’s actions and guarantee he’s held to account." 

Reached for remark by Fox News Digital, Cuomo's spokesman, Richard Azzopardi, dismissed Comer's missive arsenic "nothing much than a meritless property merchandise that was delirium past twelvemonth and is moreover much truthful now." 

"As nan DOJ perpetually reminds people, this benignant of transparent effort astatine predetermination interference and law-fare violates their ain policies," Azzopardi said. "Referrals for illustration these – which person been besides made against Planned Parenthood, Hillary Clinton and Anthony Fauci – don’t person to beryllium resubmitted pinch a caller administration, truthful nan only constituent to doing this is politics." 

Mayoral campaigner Andrew Cuomo arrives to be a Sunday work astatine First Corinthian Baptist Church successful nan Harlem vicinity of New York City connected April 13, 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Cuomo management issued a directive connected March 25, 2020, mandating that nursing homes admit aliases re-admit perchance COVID-19 affirmative patients "while simultaneously prohibiting nursing homes from testing these patients earlier admittance aliases re-admission," Wenstrup wrote to erstwhile Attorney General Merrick Garland successful October. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) issued a consequent study connected July 6, 2020, titled "Factors Associated pinch Nursing Home Infections and Fatalities successful New York State During nan COVID-19 Global Health Crisis." The study alleged nursing location unit – not nan March 25 directive – caused excess COVID-19 deaths successful nursing homes. 

Comer said witnesser grounds and caller documents revealed successful nan prime subcommittee’s referral showed Cuomo "personally drafted and edited portions of this purportedly independent and peer-reviewed report." 

New York authorities Attorney General Letitia James said successful a January 2021 investigative study of her ain that nan Cuomo management whitethorn person undercounted nan full number of nursing location deaths by arsenic overmuch arsenic 50%

Photos of seniors who died during nan COVID-19 pandemic successful nursing homes are displayed arsenic family members be a memorial arena connected March 23, 2025, successful nan Cobble Hill vicinity of Brooklyn, New York City. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The prime subcommittee launched its investigation successful May 2023. It issued a lawsuit for Cuomo's grounds successful March 2024 aft months of delays. 

Cuomo sat for a transcribed question and reply connected June 11, 2024. He later testified successful beforehand of nan prime subcommittee connected Sept. 10, 2024. 

Wenstrup noted that Cuomo claimed he was neither progressive successful nan drafting nor nan reappraisal of nan July 6 report. Cuomo besides testified that he did not person immoderate discussions astir nan July 6 Report being peer-reviewed and that he did not cognize whether nan July 6 study was reviewed by persons extracurricular nan NYSDOH. On each 3 accounts, Wenstrup said documents obtained by nan prime subcommittee show Cuomo's statements to beryllium false. 

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It's unclear if nan Justice Department, now nether Trump's control, will prosecute action against Cuomo. Fox News Digital reached retired to nan DOJ connected Tuesday for comment. 

The DOJ motioned to disregard an indictment brought nether Biden against existent New York City Mayor Eric Adams. A judge agreed to propulsion retired nan lawsuit with prejudice earlier this month. Adams is moving arsenic an independent successful nan mayoral primary.