Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo misrepresented and manipulated the number of nursing home residents who have died across the Empire State due to COVID-19, according to a State Assemblyman who sits on the committee that is reviewing its still-secret report.
Assemblyman Phil Steck is one of the Judiciary Committee members who reviewed the nearly 45-page report, compiled by the New York City law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, on Thursday and Friday, prior to its release to the public.
The report could be made public as soon as next week.
The report itself is said to cover everything from Cuomo's sexual harassment accusations to claims of his staff assisting in the writing of his book on the Coronavirus pandemic.
A lesser-known part of the report includes the Cuomo administration's misrepresentation of COVID-19 data related to the death toll of nursing home residents across the Empire State and manipulating numbers as presented to the public.
The gaps in the state's COVID-19 fatality accounting included the decision to exclude nursing home death totals of thousands of residents who died after being taken from the homes to the hospital, according to reports in August.
That report came at the same time Cuomo resigned from office in disgrace, likely to avoid an impeachment trial in the wake of a separate investigation, led by two independent investigators hired by the state's attorney general, that found he sexually harassed 11 women in office.
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