Cuomo aide, who is accused of helping cover up nursing-home death tolls, was once a professor of eth [View all]
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>Linda Lacewell, a top Cuomo aide, is accused of covering up the number of New York's nursing-home deaths.
>Lacewell was previously Cuomo's Chief of Staff and oversaw "ethics and law enforcement matters."
>She also taught classes on ethics in government at New York University's School of Law.
One of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's senior aides who faces allegations involving the nursing-home death toll cover-up previously taught classes on ethics in government, legal news website Law & Crime reported.
Linda Lacewell, the head of New York's Department of Financial Services, is one of the three top aides accused of changing a report to conceal the real number of deaths in the state's nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The New York Times.
The Cuomo administration publicly cited figures that were roughly 50% lower than the real death toll, The Times reported.
Lacewell, who formerly served as Cuomo's Chief of Staff, is one of the officials who is alleged to have directed the removal of COVID-19 deaths from the report, the New York Post reported.
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