House Republicans are recommending criminal charges against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for intentionally lying to Congress during the Oversight Committee’s investigation into the excessive number of nursing home fatalities during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic .
Select subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland Wednesday obtained by the Washington Examiner calling for Cuomo to be investigated by the Department of Justice for hiding his involvement with the New York State Department of Health report regarding the number of seniors who died due to state requirements for nursing homes to admit COVID-positive patients.
“Mr. Cuomo provided false statements to the Select Subcommittee in what appears to be a conscious, calculated effort to insulate himself from accountability,” Wenstrup wrote to Garland…