Prosecutors looking at Gov. Cuomo's order to put Covid patients in nursing homes

 National Review:

The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed material related to a memoir that Democratic governor of New York Andrew Cuomo authored during the pandemic as part of an investigation into COVID deaths in the state’s nursing homes, people familiar with the situation said.

The Wall Street Journal reported that prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York requested communications associated with Cuomo’s book, American Crisis, the newspaper’s sources said. Such materials included contracts and documents used during the pitching process to publishers. The people familiar with the case suggested that the subpoenas were issued because prosecutors wanted to probe the details of the nursing home debacle discussed the memoir.

State officials who assisted with editing early versions of Cuomo’s book were among the individuals who received subpoenas for materials, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Republican legislators have accused the Cuomo administration of intentionally manipulating and obscuring the COVID fatality data, intentionally undercounting thousands of deaths, in New York’s assisted-living facilities in an attempt to shield the governor from political criticism.
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Relatives of some of the victims of the nursing home deaths that resulted from the order have been outspoken in their criticism of Gov. Cuomo.  Some have referred to his order as a "granny killer."