Cuomo sexual harassment scandal might be overshadowing NY’s nursing property deaths, some critics fear

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing residence fatalities at the starting of the coronavirus pandemic could be having overshadowed by his rising record of sexual harassment accusers, some critics of the Democrat say.

The harassment scandal — which grew to at the very least 5 accusers subsequent two reviews released Saturday evening, amid denials of the allegations by both the governor and his spokespeople — was showing up to consider on “all the trappings of a coordinated distraction” from the nursing residence fatalities, claimed Boris Ryvkin, a lawyer and previous countrywide safety adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

State officials now estimate that extra than 15,000 people of New York’s nursing residences and lengthy-time period-care amenities may well have died of the coronavirus — a much much larger number than the 6,400 estimate state officers formerly documented, according to a story revealed Thursday night by The Wall Street Journal.

The Cuomo administration later on claimed that some fatalities were being not included in its rely due to the fact some of the info could not be “sufficiently verified,” introducing that the discrepancy did not have an affect on the administration’s contention that a March 25 point out advisory with regards to nursing property people “was not a driver of nursing house deaths,” as some critics had suspected.

“A choice was made to use the data established that was reported by the place of demise with firsthand information of the circumstances, which gave a larger degree of ease and comfort in its precision,” Beth Garvey, unique counsel to Cuomo, stated. 

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Yet, critics of Cuomo’s dealing with of the state’s nursing homes were not prepared to enable the governor off the hook.

Progressive columnist David Sirota of The Guardian asserted that waiting right until “harassment is investigated” would dismiss what he termed Cuomo’s “other big scandal.”

“Cuomo ought to experience impeachment & phone calls to resign because 15,000 people died in nursing homes while he served his donor defend nursing home execs from legal repercussions & withheld casualty information,” Sirota tweeted Wednesday.

Some critics claimed the nursng property scandal wasn’t receiving the good amount of interest when compared to the sexual harassment scandal.

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“When I picked my Cuomo Bingo Card, I did not see ‘Taken down by a sex scandal’ outperforming ‘Killed hundreds of aged Individuals in nursing houses,’ U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., tweeted very last 7 days right after a few accusers experienced accused Cuomo of undesirable advancements.

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Conservative activist Brigitte Gabriel agreed it ought to not have taken the harassment allegations for Cuomo to be noticed as unfit to govern.

“The Democrats are likely to kick Cuomo out of office environment for sexual harassment, not the avoidable dying of 15,000 senior citizens,” she tweeted Saturday.

Libertarian journalist Robby Soave agreed Cuomo ought to resign over the nursing dwelling deaths, not the harassment allegations.

“Getting hundreds or countless numbers of people killed and then trying to cover it up is significantly worse than sexual harassment,” he tweeted Tuesday.

Fox News’ Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.