Jazz wrote about this story last week. Today the NY Times has a follow-up offering more detail about the evidence that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo lied when he claimed he had neither seen nor edited a state health department report dealing with the spread of COVID-19 to New York nursing homes.
Cuomo was subpoenaed to testify before a closed-door congressional committee hearing earlier this summer. During that testimony, Cuomo repeatedly claimed he had never seen the report in question.
During Mr. Cuomo’s private questioning, a lawyer representing the committee’s Democratic members noted that one top aide had testified that Mr. Cuomo had reviewed a draft before it was released. “Is that true?” the lawyer asked.
“I did not,” Mr. Cuomo replied, according to a transcript of the questioning. “Maybe it was in the inbox, but I did not.”
Asked a second time if he’d seen, edited…
