NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The Manhattan District Attorney's probe into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's alleged mishandling of COVID-19 nursing home deaths has reportedly ended without any charges, an attorney for Cuomo said Monday.
"I was contacted today by the head of the Elder Care Unit from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office who informed me they have closed its investigation involving the Executive Chamber and nursing homes," said lkan Abramowitz, former outside counsel for the Executive Chamber.
Abramowitz added, "I was told that after a thorough investigation – as we have said all along – there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken."
An investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James also found that the former governor underreported the New York state department of health data on the number of nursing home patients that died from COVID-19.
Critics also slammed the then-governor for a policy at the beginning of the pandemic that returned nursing home residents back to their facilities once they were released from the hospital without a negative test.
Although Cuomo resigned in August 2021 amid sexual misconduct allegations, the State Assembly Judiciary Committee's impeachment report continued and found Cuomo "was not fully transparent regarding the number of nursing home residents who died as a result of COVID-19."
In October, Gov. Kathy Hochul apologized to the family members of those residents who died during the pandemic and vowed to restore trust.
"Governor Hochul is committed to transparency and restoring trust in government, and she looks forward to working with Assemblymember Kim on these priorities," Hazel Crampton-Hays, a spokeswoman for Hochul, in a statement at the time.
The DA's office declined Monday to comment on the investigation's standing.
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