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Cuomo’s Covid Victims Deserve All His Book’s Blood Money.
Reports indicate that while the Governor was pitching a multi-million dollar book deal about how he well he handled Covid, his administration was manipulating data.
In recent weeks, it’s difficult to imagine how things could possibly get any worse for New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. Well apparently, it can. After reports that his administration lied about the death toll coming from nursing homes after he mandated they accepted still sick patients, and nine women have come forward accusing him of sexual misconduct, the Governor is scrambling to salvage his career and avoid further pressure to resign. While Cuomo might have hoped that the legalization of marijuana in the state would taper some of the bad press he’s been getting on a consistent basis for weeks, it didn’t. The New York Times reported that at the very same time he was pitching multi-million dollar book deals about how well he was handling the covid crisis in New York, administration officials who were helping him write the book were also manipulating the death toll coming out of the nursing homes.
While his top aide Melissa DeRosa was organizing meetings with publishers for her boss and gracing the cover of Harper’s Bazaar magazine herself, she was…
