Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told Newsmax on Tuesday the criminal referral sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday regarding Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic is all about accountability.
The referral sent by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which Comer chairs, accuses Cuomo of lying to Congress regarding his decision to create more space in hospitals by releasing recovering COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, which led to thousands of deaths. In October, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sent a criminal referral to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, who did not act upon it.
“We led the investigation last Congress that proved that Gov. Cuomo covered up all of his mistakes,” Comer told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “He misreported data. And remember, if you go back to COVID, he was the face of COVID. He wrote a book about how to successfully navigate COVID. And sometimes the cover up is worse than the crime in politics.”
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