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WhiskeyGrinder

(22,147 posts)
Tue Mar 2, 2021, 10:50 AM Mar 2021

New York Governor Cuomo hires defense lawyer in nursing home probe

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-cuomo/new-york-governor-cuomo-hires-defense-lawyer-in-nursing-home-probe-idUSKCN2AT3NJ

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has retained a prominent white-collar criminal defense lawyer to represent his office in a federal investigation into the state’s misreporting of COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents, a spokesman said on Monday.

Cuomo has come under fire in recent weeks over his office’s role in reporting the official count of coronavirus fatalities among patients of nursing and extended-care facilities, as well as for allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him.

Elkan Abramowitz, a former federal prosecutor now working in private practice in New York City, was hired to represent Cuomo’s “executive chamber” - consisting of the governor and his immediate staff - in the U.S. Justice Department inquiry into the COVID-19 nursing home deaths, senior advisor Rich Azzopardi told Reuters in a text message.

Azzopardi earlier told the Wall Street Journal, which first reported Abramowitz’s appointment, that Cuomo had not hired a lawyer in connection with the sexual harassment probe.
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New York Governor Cuomo hires defense lawyer in nursing home probe (Original Post) WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2021 OP
Cuomo has made all kinds of poo-poo in his mess kit. Chainfire Mar 2021 #1
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Chainfire

(17,308 posts)
1. Cuomo has made all kinds of poo-poo in his mess kit.
Tue Mar 2, 2021, 11:56 AM
Mar 2021

All self-inflicted wounds. He has to pay the price of failures in judgement. I hate to see it, but there it is.

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