NEW YORK — A House subcommittee probing the governmental response to the pandemic will allege former Gov. Andrew Cuomo made false statements to Congress and refer criminal charges to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The referral centers around Cuomo’s statements to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about his involvement in the editing or reviewing of a controversial July 2020 report on Covid deaths of nursing home residents.
“Mr. Cuomo provided false statements to the Select Subcommittee in what appears to be a conscious, calculated effort to insulate himself from accountability,” Rep. Brad Wenstrup , the Ohio Republican who chairs the panel, wrote in the 107-page referral to Attorney General Merrick Garland. “The Department of Justice should consider Mr. Cuomo’s prior allegedly wrongful conduct when evaluating whether to charge him for the false statements described in the attached.”…