A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> hospice nurse has been charged after amputating a dying patient’s foot without a doctor’s order or the patient’s consent, police said.
Mary K. Brown, 38, has been charged with physical abuse of an elderly person, intentionally causing great bodily harm, and mayhem, according to a criminal complaint <a href="https://www.wqow.com/news/crime/nurse-charged-with-abuse-for-allegedly-cutting-dying-mans-foot-off-without-permission/article_49b9243e-5c7c-11ed-b768-ff8faacb6785.html">obtained by WQOW</a>. Brown was working as a hospice nurse at the Spring Valley Health and Rehab Center in Spring Valley, Wisconsin, when she was tending to the victim in March 2022.
The victim, a man who has not been identified, was admitted to the nursing home with severe frostbite on both of his feet and was believed to be near death at the end of May. With his right foot necrotic and holding on by skin and a few tendons, Brown allegedly cut it off without permission. Multiple witnesses told police that Brown cut off the victim&#8217;s foot without a doctor’s order and without the victim asking her to cut off his foot. Brown allegedly admitted she did not have a doctor’s order to perform the amputation.
Another nurse reportedly told police that she was in the room when Brown removed the foot and held the victim’s hand tightly as he moaned throughout the procedure. A different nurse told police that the victim told her later that he had felt everything during the amputation and had been in pain.
One nurse told police the amputation wasn’t done well and that Brown had mentioned her family has a taxidermy shop and she would get the foot preserved and display it with a sign that read, &#8220;wear your boots, kids.&#8221;
Brown reportedly told police she amputated the victim’s foot to make him more comfortable and hoped someone would do that for her if she were in the same position.
Kevin Larson, administrator and CEO of Spring Valley Senior Living and Health Care, told WQOW that Brown was not an employee of their organization.
“We have and will continue to fully cooperate with the investigation into this matter. The person identified is not employed with our community,” Larson told the outlet.
It is not clear if the victim is still alive, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/05/wisconsin-nurse-mary-brown-allegedly-cut-off-dying-mans-foot-for-taxidermy-display/">reported</a>.
Brown’s initial court appearance is scheduled for December 6. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison for each count, a sentence that could be as high as 46 years per count since the victim is elderly.

Low Section Of Patient Lying On Hospital Bed

Hospice Nurse Allegedly Amputated Patient’s Foot Without Doctor’s Order, Patient’s Consent, Police Say

Hospice Nurse Allegedly Amputated Patient's Foot Without Doctor's Order, Patient's Consent, Police Say

Crime

Nursing Homes

U.S.

Wisconsin

A nursing home has issued an apology after video went viral of a stripper hired to entertain wheel-chair bound senior citizens at a veteran home for retired army personnel.
A spokesperson for the state-run Taoyuan Veterans Home in Taiwan explained that the exotic dancer was brought in to lift the spirits of the seniors was &#8220;too enthusiastic and fiery&#8221; as they apologized for hiring the dancer in an effort to celebrate &#8220;Mid-Autumn Festival,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/stripper-performs-for-wheelchair-bound-seniors-at-nursing-home-sparks-backlash/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow">New York Post</a> reported in a piece published Tuesday.
&#8220;The intention of the event was to entertain residents and make them happy,&#8221; the statement to the outlet read. &#8220;We are very sorry for the offense that was caused.&#8221;
The spokesperson also said the adult dancer&#8217;s actions were &#8220;too enthusiastic and fiery,&#8221; and promised to be &#8220;more cautious&#8221; with future events.
In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDjuOrm8ak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> taken September 7 by one of the attendees and then shared on social media, the scantily clad woman put her chest in the faces of the men as she danced around, spread her legs, and gave the men a lap dance as they touched the woman&#8217;s breasts and crotch.
It is clear from the video the senior citizens are loving the raunchy show as they clap along with the masked dancer.
Once the video went viral, the nursing home was faced with a backlash and had to end up releasing a statement apologizing for their decision.
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Nothing But Respect To This Nursing Home That Hired A Stripper For Their Seniors <a href="https://t.co/Jd2bFgGDOl">https://t.co/Jd2bFgGDOl</a> <a href="https://t.co/VNkWjO2wZq">pic.twitter.com/VNkWjO2wZq</a>
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The two previous Mid-Autumn Festivals had to be cancelled due to the pandemic. It is a holiday in Chinese culture when people gather to celebrate the rice and wheat harvests of the season and wish for a fruitful harvest in the coming year, <a href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/backlash-after-nursing-home-hires-strippers-for-cultural-holiday/news-story/7bd0ed5badecde08118a83e9d61ec4b9">one outlet</a> noted.
Reading through a lot of the comments on social media, the majority of reactions seemed to be favorable to the nursing homes&#8217; original decision.
One person tweeted, &#8220;More moral do-gooders getting their knickers in a twist about a nursing home in Taiwan that brought in strippers for the elderly army veterans. The men seem to be loving it. Yet, apparently this is not &#8216;treating them with dignity.&#8217; They could have left!&#8221;

Strippers

‘Too Enthusiastic And Fiery’: Nursing Home Issues Apology After Video Goes Viral Of Stripper Hired To Entertain Residents

'Too Enthusiastic And Fiery’: Nursing Home Issues Apology After Video Goes Viral Of Stripper Hired To Entertain Residents

Entertainment

Taiwan

Veterans

Former New York Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/andrew-cuomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Cuomo</a> won a lawsuit Tuesday after a state Supreme Court ruled against a now-disbanded ethics agency that attempted to force the ex-governor to repay $5.1 million in profits he received from a book deal detailing his administration&#8217;s early response to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> pandemic.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) accused Cuomo last year of misusing state resources and staff to write &#8220;American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From The COVID-19 Pandemic,&#8221; which Cuomo&#8217;s legal team denied, and the governor himself did not dispute that his staff helped with its publication, but only voluntarily.
Politico <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/16/cuomo-wins-lawsuit-over-his-book-deal-00052240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that Albany County Supreme Court Justice Denise Hartman issued a 17-page decision that sided with Cuomo, determining that the ethics commission overstepped its authority and violated due process by not following the order to bring an action against the former governor.
&#8220;JCOPE was seeking to impose sanctions for Cuomo&#8217;s alleged non-compliance with JCOPE&#8217;s outside activities rules,&#8221; Hartman wrote. However, state law says it can &#8220;impose sanctions only for violation of the statute, not for violations of JCOPE&#8217;s rules.&#8221;
Times Union <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Judge-rules-against-state-ethics-panel-in-Cuomo-s-17377578.php?utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;cmpid=twittersocialflow&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> the judge said, &#8220;JCOPE issued the approval for the outside activity, then unilaterally determined wrongdoing, then withdrew the approval, and finally imposed the disgorgement penalty.&#8221;
Governor Cuomo&#8217;s attorney Rita Glavin said in a statement that the rule of law prevailed and exposed the ethics commission&#8217;s &#8220;utter lawlessness&#8221; against the former New York leader.
&#8220;JCOPE&#8217;s conduct was shameful, unlawful, and a waste of taxpayer&#8217;s funds,&#8221; Glavin said.
Cuomo and the state legislature created the ethics commission a decade ago until it disassembled last March after facing criticism that the 14-member panel controlled decision-making.
Cuomo resigned last year amid allegations of sexual harassment scandals and <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2021/01/28/new-york-undercounted-nursing-home-deaths-by-as-much-50-percent-report-finds-1360742" target="_blank" rel="noopener">misreporting</a> of about 50% of COVID deaths in nursing homes. Republican and Democratic lawmakers lambasted the governor for suppressing the death toll as the ink dried on his contract to write a memoir about his pandemic response.
On March 25, 2020, Andrew Cuomo ordered that COVID-positive senior citizens could not be &#8220;denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.&#8221;
The state reported 6,600 nursing home deaths from the coronavirus in August 2020. The New York Times estimates the accurate number of nursing home deaths total 15,000.
Governor Cuomo&#8217;s aide Melissa DeRosa confessed to state legislators that the administration &#8220;basically&#8221; froze the death toll.
&#8220;We weren&#8217;t sure if what we were going to give to the [Trump administration] Department of Justice … was going to be used against us, [and] we weren&#8217;t sure if there was going to be an investigation,&#8221; DeRosa said.
Democratic state assembly member Ronald Kim went public with the allegations, saying Cuomo called &#8220;to threaten my career if I did not cover up for&#8221; him.
Cuomo still has another ongoing probe into allegations he used state resources to write his book of pandemic memoirs from Attorney General Tish James and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, per Politico.
If the ethics commission revamps with a new panel, Justice Hartman&#8217;s latest opinion suggests it could launch another action against Cuomo if it chooses.
Ben Johnson contributed to this report.

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Ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Wins Lawsuit Over $5.1 Million Pandemic Response Book Deal

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COVID-19

New York

Pandemic

Charges were dropped against a man caught on a terrifying video two years ago viciously beating a 75-year-old Army veteran in the Detroit nursing home where they both lived.
The shocking video from May 15, 2020, showing Jaden Hayden pummeling Norman Bledsoe in the Westwood Nursing Center, went viral. Although Bledsoe <a href="https://www.wxyz.com/news/victim-in-detroit-nursing-home-assault-has-died-family-says">died weeks later</a>, his death was not classified as a homicide. Charges were <a href="https://michigannewstime.com/charges-of-assault-on-a-nursing-home-were-dropped-2/16911/">reportedly dropped</a> because Hayden is mentally incompetent to stand trial.
“He shouldn’t be in jail,” Hayden&#8217;s father, Marty Hayden, told WXYZ, Detroit&#8217;s ABC television affiliate. “So the system will let him down again. He will not be rehabilitated.&#8221;
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This is a nursing home. Please someone explain why this is happening and unreported. <a href="https://t.co/Dzs8QYykIv">pic.twitter.com/Dzs8QYykIv</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1263561902686236672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hayden recorded the beating with his own cell phone, according to police. The video shows Bledsoe covered in blood as he lies helpless on the bed and being pummeled by Hayden, who repeatedly yells, &#8220;Get the f*** off my bed!&#8221;
Nursing home staff raced in to help Bledsoe, Hayden said had fallen out of his bed, police later said. Hayden was arrested a week later, after police received several calls from citizens who saw the video on social media. Hayden, who police said had &#8220;set up his cell phone&#8221; in the room, had posted videos of the attack on social media. He was also accused of stealing Bledsoe&#8217;s credit cards.
Joely Pointer an employee at the nursing home, <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2021/01/11/man-charged-with-beating-detroit-nursing-home-resident-headed-to-trial/">said in January, 2021</a>, that Bledsoe was left dazed after the attack, which left him with several broken ribs, fingers, and a broken jaw.
“He had a very large contusion to his head,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There was blood. He was very confused and he could not give me a statement as to what happened.”
The elder Hayden blames social workers for putting his mentally ill son in a nursing home. Jaden Hayden, who had a history of violent behavior, was living in a group home in May of 2020, when he told his father he was &#8220;hearing voices,&#8221; according to his father. He was sent to University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, where he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and inexplicably sent to the nursing home to recover.
Pointer told <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2021/01/11/man-charged-with-beating-detroit-nursing-home-resident-headed-to-trial/">ClickOnDetroit.com</a> last year that the nursing home had just opened a COVID unit, and that&#8217;s why it had taken in Hayden.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, like former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and governors in New Jersey and Pennsylvania sent COVID patients to nursing homes during the early stages of the pandemic. The policy has been blamed for deadly infections of elderly people in those states.
Hayden is now confined in a Kalamazoo psychiatric hospital.
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The Bledsoe family is suing the nursing home and has hired prominent Michigan attorney Jeffrey Fieger.
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Nursing home beating

Charges Dropped Against Man Seen Beating Elderly Vet In Viral Nursing Home Video

COVID

Michigan

Recently unearthed emails between Chris Cuomo reveal that the CNN host assisted his brother’s public relations efforts to deny charges that the state deliberately covered up the number of senior citizens who died in nursing homes with COVID-19.
The revelation comes amid <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21408525-emailtranche">157 pages of emails</a> between Cuomo and the Executive Chamber, the employees who served then-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fall-of-andrew-cuomo-how-an-empire-built-on-fear-came-crashing-down">New York Governor Andrew Cuomo</a> (D).
The Cuomo administration had rushed out a draft statement responding to a New York Times story revealing that Governor Cuomo’s administration had dramatically minimized the number of COVID-19 deaths in the state’s nursing homes.
The all-capitalization statement, emailed to the governor’s senior advisers last March 4, said “STATEMENTS FROM DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SPOKESMAN GARY HOLMES AND SPECIAL COUNSEL TO THE GOVERNOR BETH GARVEY IN RESPONSE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES STORY ON NURSING HOMES.”
Two advisers found the story incomprehensible. “None of this is in English. What’s the English answer for the dummies who can’t read this?” asked pollster and strategist Jefrey Pollock, who now <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/12/hochul-retains-pollster-who-helped-cuomo-fight-sex-harass-claims/">works for</a> Governor Kathy Hochul. “Agreed,” wrote adviser Lis Smith.
At that time Chris Cuomo, who was at the time CNN’s top-rated anchor, helped his brother’s team push back against the allegation, which proved to be true. Chris Cuomo advised that, “to be effective,” the all-capitalized headline had to say the New York Times had gotten the story wrong and claim the newspaper of record had not given the governor’s office enough time to respond to the charges. Cuomo wrote:
<blockquote>For this to be effective the caps caption must may say something abt times being wrong or being misleading
 
Then say why
 
The. Say you werent given time to respond</blockquote>
The legacy media lionized Andrew Cuomo at the height of the coronavirus global pandemic, often carrying his daily live briefings and lauding him as a stable, competent, successful alternative to President Donald Trump.
On March 25, 2020, Andrew Cuomo <a href="https://dmna.ny.gov/covid19/docs/all/DOH_COVID19%20_NHAdmissionsReadmissions_%20032520.pdf">ordered</a> that COVID-positive senior citizens could not be “denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.” State political observers speculated the move came as a payback to the Greater New York Hospital Association, which donated $1 million to the governor’s 2018 campaign.
The state reported <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/timeline-andrew-cuomos-scandalous-covid-19-response">6,600</a> nursing home deaths from the coronavirus in August 2020. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html">estimates</a> the accurate total nursing home death total at 15,000.
As the deaths began to mount, Governor Cuomo’s aide Melissa DeRosa <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-cuomos-top-aide-says-new-york-hid-nursing-home-death-toll">confessed</a> to state legislators, “Basically, we froze” the death toll We weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the [Trump administration] Department of Justice … was going to be used against us, [and] we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.” Democratic state assembly member Ronald Kim went public with the allegations, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-lawmaker-claims-governor-cuomo-threatened-to-destroy-him-over-nursing-home-criticisms">saying</a> that Cuomo called “to threaten my career if I did not cover up for” him.
While Governor Cuomo resigned last August over mounting pressure over sexual harassment allegations levied by nearly a dozen women, his nursing home malfeasance has gone unpunished.
Last May, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/chris-cuomo-andrew-cuomo/2021/05/20/99579382-b7f9-11eb-bb84-6b92dedcd8ed_story.html">broke the story</a> that Chris Cuomo advised his brother on sexual harassment allegations, but it said nothing about the nursing home scandal.
After the revelation that the two brothers regularly conferred on messaging, Chris Cuomo <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMpz-_Ef3EI">vowed</a> that “it will not happen again.” CNN made similar pledges. Then-CNN President Jeff Zucker steadfastly stood by the host of “Cuomo Prime Time” though multiple rounds of scandals, but ultimately fired him last December. Zucker, in turn, was fired for failing to disclose a personal relationship with a co-worker.
The new wrinkle is the second previously unreported detail to emerge from the same tranche of Chris Cuomo’s emails. The messages, obtained via a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request made by the New York Post, revealed that a New York <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-was-offered-early-access-to-covid-19-treatment">doctor offered CNN’s Chris Cuomo human blood</a> plasma from a patient who had recovered from COVID-19. Through a go-between, Dr. Christopher Hillyer of the New York Blood Center offered Chris Cuomo “convalescent plasma” in April 2020, as the CNN host suffered from COVID-19. Injecting sick patients with the blood plasma of those who recovered served as an experimental treatment before the COVID-19 vaccine became available to the public.

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Chris Cuomo Helped Gov. Andrew Cuomo Spin Nursing Home Deaths

On Monday, an attorney who represented former New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive chamber revealed that the Manhattan district attorney’s office had closed its investigation into how Cuomo’s administration handled Covid-19 in nursing homes. Fox Meteorologist Janice Dean, the most vociferous and trenchant critic of Cuomo for his policies after her husband&#8217;s parents died in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, fired on Twitter:
<blockquote>The new Manhattan DA is excusing our former corrupt governor of several charges he was facing regarding nursing homes and sexual assault. There are still investigations underway with FBI, DOJ eastern district and AG but there’s no doubt they’re making deals with the devil.</blockquote>
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The new Manhattan DA is excusing our former corrupt governor of several charges he was facing regarding nursing homes and sexual assault. There are still investigations underway with FBI, DOJ eastern district and AG but there’s no doubt they’re making deals with the devil.
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1478319978122293249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The attorney who represented Cuomo’s executive chamber, Elkan Abramowitz, said the head of the Manhattan district attorney’s elder-care unit contacted him.
Abramowitz said, “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,” <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/manhattan-da-ends-andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-probe-11641250710">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported, noting the various investigations that had been launched into the nursing home scandal, including the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights bureau asking for death data from state-run nursing homes in August 2020; a further investigation by another DOJ division that examined private nursing homes, and federal prosecutors based in Brooklyn seeking <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nursing-home-death-data-was-sought-from-cuomo-by-u-s-prosecutors-11613699774?mod=article_inline">nursing-home death data</a>.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-cuomo-quarantine-florida-new-york-nursing-homes">Fox News</a> noted in June 2020 that over 6,200 elderly residents might have died from COVID-19 in New York nursing homes according to <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf">state health department statistics</a>. Months prior, on March 25, 2020, the New York Department of Health issued an advisory that stated nursing homes had to accept residents returning from hospitals whether or not they had a diagnosis of COVID-19. The <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf">advisory</a> stated:
<blockquote>During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.  
Hospital discharge planners must confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to the transport of a resident to the NH.
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-finally-reverses-order-forcing-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-patients-demands-testing-for-care-workers">reported</a> on May 10, 2020, that a report from New York state authorities showed that “at least 4,813 residents with confirmed or presumed cases of COVID-19 have died at 351 of New York’s 613 nursing homes since March 1, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration’s new list,” according to <a href="https://time.com/5832141/new-york-nursing-home-death-toll/">Time Magazine</a>.
The Journal noted that state officials “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomo-advisers-altered-report-on-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths-11614910855?mod=article_inline">withheld data</a> on the full number of Covid-19 deaths among nursing-home residents, and aides to Mr. Cuomo successfully pushed to use a lower tally in a Health Department report on the matter. Republican and Democratic lawmakers criticized Mr. Cuomo for suppressing the death toll while negotiating a $5.1 million contract to write a memoir about his experience during the pandemic.”

Cuomo Dean

‘Making Deals With The Devil’: Janice Dean Rips Manhattan DA For Closing Investigation Into Cuomo, Nursing Home Deaths

Janice Dean

A former major mob boss ripped into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over his actions in the nursing home scandal in which thousands of New Yorkers died from COVID-19, snapping, “I’m a bad***. I’d never do it.&#8221;
As part of a <a href="https://mafiastatesofamerica.com/">series</a> called “The Mafia States of America,” Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, who used to help run the Gambino crime family in New York City, told host and moderator Patrick Bet-David, “I hate to get into Governor Cuomo. I will a little bit because he’s Italian and I can’t stand it,” as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-torched-by-sammy-bull-gravano-over-nursing-home-scandal-i-would-never-do-that">Fox News</a> reported.
“One, because he’s Italian and I’m embarrassed to have someone do what he did as an Italian,” he continued. “He killed 15,000 people by putting people with the coronavirus in [nursing homes] with old people. … I don’t give a f*** who tells me to do that, whether it’s Trump, the president, the vice president, you, him (referring to fellow interviewee  and former Colombo caporegime Michael Franzese), I would never do it. And I’m a bad***. I’d never do it.”
“Gravano also said that when an individual does something like the former governor’s scandal and has ‘no concern,’ he thinks about his family, including his ‘great-grandchildren who aren’t even born&#8221; that are &#8220;going to deal with s— like this,” Fox News stated.
The series’ director Gerard Michaels told Fox News that Cuomo did not respond when they asked for comment on the show. He declared, &#8220;They were silent. Any of our emails were never responded to. And every time we tried to make a phone call, all they did was push to another department, who then tried to push us to another department, who tried to push us to another department, who then tried to push us to another department.&#8221;
Bet-David chimed in regarding Gravano and Franzese, “Their biggest challenge with this is that the moment you’re a politician, you are held to much different standards than they did. Now, don’t get me wrong – obviously a Rudy Giulliani is necessary to help clean the streets of New York so families don’t have to worry about the safety of their kids while they’re out there playing. But I would say that’s the position that Sammy and Michael would take: that they think many politicians like the Cuomos get away with murder, which is essentially what happened.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-cuomo-quarantine-florida-new-york-nursing-homes">Fox News</a> noted in June 2020 that over 6,200 elderly residents might have died from COVID-19 in New York nursing homes according to <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf">state health department statistics</a>. Months prior, on March 25, 2020, the New York Department of Health issued an advisory that stated nursing homes had to accept residents returning from hospitals whether or not they had a diagnosis of COVID-19. The <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf">advisory</a> stated:
<blockquote>During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.  Hospital discharge planners must confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to the transport of a resident to the NH.
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-finally-reverses-order-forcing-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-patients-demands-testing-for-care-workers">reported</a> on May 10, 2020, that a report from New York state authorities showed that &#8220;at least 4,813 residents with confirmed or presumed cases of COVID-19 have died at 351 of New York’s 613 nursing homes since March 1, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration’s new list,&#8221; according to <a href="https://time.com/5832141/new-york-nursing-home-death-toll/">Time Magazine</a>.

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Former Mafia Boss Drags Cuomo Over Nursing Home Deaths: ‘I’m A Bad***. I’d Never Do It’’

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Fox News Channel meteorologist Janice Dean announced she has filed official inquiries with the state of New York to find out if Chris Cuomo plotted with the governor’s staff to discredit “this Fox weather b***h” after she highlighted the deadly effects of the state’s COVID-19 policies on nursing home patients.
Dean, whose husband lost both his parents to COVID-19 inside long-term care facilities, became an indefatigable opponent of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fall-of-andrew-cuomo-how-an-empire-built-on-fear-came-crashing-down">Governor Andrew Cuomo (D)</a>’s edict forcing nursing homes to admit patients who tested positive for COVID-19.
Sources <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-allegedly-blasted-janice-dean-as-that-fox-weather-bitch/">told</a> the New York Post late Friday that then-CNN host Chris Cuomo sent a text message to his brother’s secretary, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10298431/Andrew-Cuomos-allies-plotted-discredit-Foxs-Janice-Dean-criticizing-handling-pandemic.html">Melissa DeRosa</a>, saying that he wanted to go after “this Fox weather b***h……Any help painting her as a far right crazy?”
Dean told “Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade on Monday morning that she was “not surprised at all, because early on I heard from a good source, who knows the family very well, to watch my back. This was before any of the real press coverage, the hundreds of op-eds I wrote, all of the appearances that I did on Fox News. He told me ‘watch your back.’”
Dean said ad hominem attacks and smear campaigns are the Cuomo family’s modus operandi. “This is how these guys react,” Dean said. “They don’t try to solve anything: They just attack the person that’s coming after them.”
Dean announced she is filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests “to find out if my name or my family’s name is in any of those official documents, because I want to know if there was a smear campaign against me.”
She said she also wondered if any of Chris Cuomo’s media-stifling communications appeared “on CNN letterhead.”
Dean had typically restricted her on-air comments to the weather until last year, after Governor Cuomo required nursing homes to admit patients who tested positive for COVID-19, then reportedly covered up the ensuing death toll.
On March 25, 2020, Cuomo issued a <a href="https://dmna.ny.gov/covid19/docs/all/DOH_COVID19%20_NHAdmissionsReadmissions_%20032520.pdf">directive</a> stating, “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.” Other Democratic governors —including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/are-the-doj-and-media-letting-gretchen-whitmer-get-away-with-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths">Gretchen Whitmer </a>(Michigan), Tom Wolf (Pennsylvania), and Phil Murphy (New Jersey) — enacted similar measures.
While the Cuomo administration originally announced only <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/timeline-andrew-cuomos-scandalous-covid-19-response">6,600</a> nursing home deaths from the virus, the Department of Health released revised figures in February stating <a href="https://www.wwnytv.com/2021/02/11/ny-health-nursing-home-residents-die-covid/">more than 15,000 people</a> died from COVID-19 in nursing homes and other related facilities. That accounts for more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covid-19-killed-14-of-new-yorks-nursing-home-population">14%</a> of New York’s “pre-pandemic nursing home population,” <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/the-states-revised-nursing-home-death-toll/">according</a> to  <a href="https://www.empirecenter.org/">The Empire Center</a>, the state’s free-market, nonpartisan think tank.
The figure includes Dean’s father-in-law, 83-year-old Mickey Newman — who died in Brooklyn’s Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on March 29, 2020 — and her mother-in-law, 79-year-old Dee Newman who died on April 13, 2020, at the Long Island Living Center.
Governor Cuomo resigned in the face of mounting sexual harassment allegations, while CNN fired Chris Cuomo for his role in helping his brother cover up the allegations, as well as a separate legal complaint that Chris had also committed sexual harassment.
Fox News said that Chris Cuomo has refused comment on the latest allegations, but the family has denied that they tried to smear Dean, who has been seen as an effective opponent. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-ex-cnn-anchor-chris-cuomo-and-andrew-cuomos-aide-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean">reported</a>:
<blockquote>A spokesperson for the governor named Rich Azzopardi denied these allegations, saying, “We had no ‘strategy sessions’ about Janice Dean and to the extent that the press office had to respond to something she said, it was handled by the press office and did not rise to the level of something the governor would be engaged with.”
Earlier this year, Azzopardi himself tried to “discredit” Dean after being asked about her efforts to expose COVID-19 malpractice in the Empire State. “Last I checked [Dean is] not a credible source on anything except maybe the weather,” he told media.</blockquote>
Azzopardi later <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/chris-cuomo-melissa-derosa-plotted-to-discredit-fox-news-janice-dean-sources.html">told</a> CNBC, “I have no knowledge of this ever happening and you must ask, why then did the [New York state] Attorney General [Letitia James] not put anything about it in her report or ask any of the relevant people about it?”
“I already know the answer to that,” Dean said on Monday morning. “The report was about sexual harassment, not about nursing homes.”
“No one’s denying anything, by the way,” Dean noted.
She said that Rich Azzopardi, “Cuomo’s henchman,” personally attacked “not only me but my sister-in-law on Twitter, saying ‘get a life’ and called us a ‘death cult.’ So, this was already in motion.”
Dean vowed over the weekend to continue to demand a reckoning over the lives cost by Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 order. &#8220;The story for me has always been about trying to find answers and accountability as to what happened in New York nursing homes in the spring of 2020 and why Cuomo and his administration tried to cover it up,&#8221; Dean wrote on Twitter on Sunday. &#8220;It’s a shame that many tried to dig up information to try and demean me through my profession (&#8216;weather girl&#8217;) where I work (Fox News) and who I voted for. Sadly, it wasn’t just the Cuomo team, but blue checks and reporters scouring through tweets and articles I’ve written in the past to support their own beliefs and a political narrative.&#8221;
“This won’t stop my mission on behalf of thousands of families, but it has opened my eyes to how the powerful will do anything to protect themselves, those around them, and to what lengths they will go to silence the people who question their motivations and deadly decisions,” she concluded.
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The story for me has always been about trying to find answers and accountability as to what happened in New York nursing homes in the spring of 2020 and why Cuomo and his administration tried to cover it up. It’s a shame that many tried to dig up information to try and demean
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1470007986382905351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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This won’t stop my mission on behalf of thousands of families, but it has opened my eyes to how the powerful will do anything to protect themselves, those around them, and to what lengths they will go to silence the people who question their motivations and deadly decisions.
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1470007988324810757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dean noted Monday that Andrew Cuomo has never faced any consequences for his actions exposing vulnerable senior citizens to COVID-infected patients.
“I’m going to continue to hold these people accountable,” Dean said.
You can watch the full segment below.
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‘Not surprised at all’: <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JaniceDean</a> speaks out following reports Cuomo team plotted to discredit her <a href="https://t.co/5gUwfxQMRB">pic.twitter.com/5gUwfxQMRB</a>
&mdash; Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) <a href="https://twitter.com/kilmeade/status/1470385118372114436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Janice Dean Responds To Cuomo Bros’ Plan To Discredit ‘Fox Weather B****’

Chris Cuomo

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A nursing home in Arkansas was destroyed after being hit by a tornado on Friday night that was part of a severe storm weather pattern that was strung out over several states.
&#8220;A state of emergency has been issued after the roof collapsed on a nursing home with people inside the building, killing one person,&#8221; the Associated Press <a href="https://www.localmemphis.com/article/weather/severe-weather/state-of-emergency-issue-after-roof-collapse-on-a-nursing-home-in-monette-arkansas/522-118436df-e2c4-490e-8f28-25d6760e99e3">reported</a>. &#8220;Five people had serious injuries, and a few others had minor ones &#8230; The nursing home has 86 beds.&#8221;
Craighead County Judge Marvin Day said that the tornado hit the Monette Manor nursing home at approximately 8:15 Central Time.
“It looks like it’s pretty much destroyed,” Craighead County Judge Marvin Day said. “It happens quick but apparently there was a little bit of time with tornado sirens going off.”
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CONFIRMED: Monette Manor a nursing home in Monette, Arkansas took a direct hit by a very large tornado &amp; collapsed with patients inside. Docs/RNs are pleading for help. <a href="https://t.co/g3HDyYy7bX">pic.twitter.com/g3HDyYy7bX</a>
&mdash; Ellen Bacca (@ellenbacca) <a href="https://twitter.com/ellenbacca/status/1469496640469880832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The scene this morning at Monette Manor Nursing Home. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/arwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#arwx</a> <a href="https://t.co/2XFv3Q1EI9">pic.twitter.com/2XFv3Q1EI9</a>
&mdash; Brian Emfinger (@brianemfinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianemfinger/status/1469690791564042245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I almost didn’t post this. But this shows you first hand the scene at the Monette Arkansas Nursing home just moments after the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tornado?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tornado</a> impacted them. It’s hard stuff to watch but it’s the reality we face. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/arwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#arwx</a> pray for Monette and all the others impacted 🙏 <a href="https://t.co/fj2iw3jKiH">pic.twitter.com/fj2iw3jKiH</a>
&mdash; Jordan Hall (@JordanHallWX) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanHallWX/status/1469685113952907267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Inside the Monette Manor Nursing Home. 
The hallways are flooded, the ceiling is caving and remnants of furniture and holiday decorations are scattered <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC24Memphis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC24Memphis</a> <a href="https://t.co/7B6Hsft4td">pic.twitter.com/7B6Hsft4td</a>
&mdash; Caitlin McCarthy (@news_caitlin) <a href="https://twitter.com/news_caitlin/status/1469707932006854660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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At least 30 tornadoes were reported throughout Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. The largest tornado that struck the region tore through more than 220 miles in Kentucky.
Hundreds of thousands of homes were left without power, including 136,000+ in Tennessee, approximately 60,000 in Kentucky, 25,000+ in Arkansas, roughly 24,000 in Illinois, and nearly 10,000 in Missouri.
Some of the most devastating scenes included a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-warehouse-in-illinois-collapses-during-severe-storm-fatalities-confirmed-dozens-trapped">collapsed Amazon warehouse</a> and a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candle-factory-destroyed-by-tornadoes-in-kentucky-trapping-more-than-100-people-inside">candle factory that was destroyed</a> with more than 100 people inside.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D)declared a state of emergency and requested that the Biden administration declare an emergency disaster for the state.
“One tornado struck the City of Mayfield which is reporting major damages to public facilities, businesses, and residences. It is reported that a Graves County factory has collapsed, trapping workers and we believe there are at least 50 fatalities,” Beshear said in a statement. “Debris covering emergency vehicle buildings has hampered search and rescue efforts. In Hopkins County, a train carrying hazardous materials has been derailed by a tornado. Vegetative and construction debris cover a multitude of county, state, and federal routes. At this point, at least 17 Kentucky counties have experienced tornadic activity and debris fields. The event is ongoing.”
More than 16 million Americans were subjected to tornado watches last night in nine states as the massive stormfront moved through America’s heartland.
AccuWeather <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/arkansas-missouri-kentucky-nighttime-tornadoes/1060335">reported</a>:
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The three-year average from 2018 to 2021 for tornadoes in December across the U.S. is 47, according to the SPC. Some Decembers are more active in terms of tornadoes compared to others. In 2018, there were 66 tornadoes reported, compared to just 18 in 2020.
AccuWeather meteorologists remain concerned that the risk of severe thunderstorms may extend as far north as southern Michigan and northern Ohio early Saturday. Following building warmth and humidity, the lid came off the atmosphere Friday evening as a cold front moved in from the west and lead to explosive thunderstorm development.
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During a press conference, Beshear said that as the day progressed, people needed to brace themselves for “more tough news.”
“It has been one of the toughest nights in Kentucky history,” he said. “Some areas have been hit in ways that are hard to put into words.”

Tornado

Tornado Destroys Nursing Home In Arkansas, Multiple Casualties Reported

Arkansas

Weather

In a disappointing yet unsurprising development, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has formally declined to investigate the nursing home policies in three states with Democrat governors that resulted in thousands of elderly citizens dying from COVID-19.
In a letter sent to House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), the DOJ informed the congressman that it would not open an investigation into New York, Pennsylvania, or Michigan’s treatment of nursing home patients during the coronavirus pandemic. The DOJ has, however, opened an investigation into New Jersey’s nursing home policies relating to two specific nursing homes in the state.
“The Civil Rights Division requested information from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey regarding COVID-19 and nursing facilities run by, or for, those states, by letters dated August 26, 2020. The letters stated that the requested information would assist the Department in determining whether to open an investigation under [the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act] CRIPA,” wrote Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joe Gaeta. “Each state provided information in response to the request. We have reviewed the information provided by these states along with additional information available to the Department. Based on that review, we have decided not to open a CRIPA investigation of any public nursing facility within New York, Pennsylvania, or Michigan at this time.”
The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/24/biden-doj-wont-investigate-deadly-nursing-home-policies-in-these-democrat-run-states/">reported</a> that those three states received their own letters that they would not be investigated at this time. In August 2020, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-justice-department-seeking-data-from-states-that-implemented-policies-mandating-nursing-homes-couldnt-reject-coronavirus-patients">reported</a> that then-President Donald Trump’s DOJ was seeking data from states that implemented policies mandating nursing homes couldn’t reject COVID-19-positive patients.
The Biden DOJ’s decision to end those investigations brought condemnation from Republicans.
“Where is the justice for nursing home victims and their grieving families?” Scalise said. “Grieving families deserve answers and accountability. It’s unconscionable that Biden’s Department of Justice refuses to investigate the deadly actions that went against CDC’s medical guidance taken in these states.”
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (NY), blasted the decision for letting Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) off the hook for his devastating policies.
“This decision from President Biden’s Department of Justice makes President Biden complicit in the criminal corruption scandal and coverup of deaths of thousands of vulnerable seniors,” Stefanik said. “New Yorkers deserve answers and accountability.”
Janice Dean, Fox News’ senior meteorologist who lost her in-laws in New York nursing homes due to COVID-19, called the decision a “terrible day for thousands of families.”
“There will be no justice for our loved ones, and it feels like we’ve lost them all over again,” she added.
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A terrible day for thousands of families. In a letter to <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SteveScalise</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> wrote that they were dropping the nursing home investigations in all states including New York. There will be no justice for our loved ones, and it feels like we’ve lost them all over again. <a href="https://t.co/DV7uNRMr9D">pic.twitter.com/DV7uNRMr9D</a>
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1418662954304692225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-cuomo-aides-edited-report-to-hide-nursing-home-death-toll-ahead-of-book-release-report">reported</a> earlier this year, top Cuomo aides reportedly “pressured state health department officials to alter a report to remove the total number of nursing home residents who died from the coronavirus.”
Even though the investigations into New York, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were dismissed, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is still facing an investigation. Further, Cuomo is still being investigated by the FBI and the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office. In addition, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is also the target of a probe by the state’s auditor general, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigans-auditor-general-looking-into-data-accuracy-regarding-coronavirus-nursing-home-deaths-report">reported</a> earlier this month.

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Biden’s DOJ Drops Investigation Into COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths, Letting Democrat Governors Off The Hook

Department of Justice

Gretchen Whitmer

Michigan&#8217;s Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer may soon be forced to turn over documents relating to her administration&#8217;s COVID-19 nursing home policy. On Thursday, the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee voted to subpoena nursing home records from the state&#8217;s health department, <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/05/13/michigan-senate-panel-votes-subpoena-nursing-home-documents/5071406001/">the Detroit News reported</a>, in an effort to get a clearer picture of how Whitmer&#8217;s policies impacted the COVID-19 death rate in Michigan adult and long-term care facilities.
&#8220;Oversight Chairman Ed McBroom, R-Vulcan, said he had requested documents from the Department of Health and Human Services on March 2, but two months later, officials hadn&#8217;t released any records to him,&#8221; the Detroit News noted. &#8220;McBroom said he&#8217;s looking for communications among state health department employees about policies for nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the coronavirus pandemic.&#8221;
The Whitmer administration reportedly had a policy similar to that of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who required that nursing and other adult and long-term care facilities accept patients recovering from COVID-19, even if those patients remained contagious or still tested positive for the virus. The policy in New York may have led to tens of thousands of coronavirus-related deaths.
Journalist Charlie LeDuff <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/19/covering-up-nursing-home-covid-deaths-cuomo-whitmer-column/4723259001/">announced last month</a> that he and others were &#8220;suing the state of Michigan to release information regarding Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order that funneled nursing home residents hospitalized with COVID-19 back into nursing homes,&#8221; information, LeDuff claimed, Whitmer &#8220;is hiding from the public.&#8221;
&#8220;According to state data, 5,712 COVID-19 deaths in Michigan have been either residents or staff of long-term care facilities, equaling about 31% of the statewide virus-linked deaths,&#8221; the Detroit News reported, adding that the state had ordered &#8220;regional hubs&#8221; &#8212; nursing home specially equipped to handle returning patients who needed to be isolated &#8212; to operate during the pandemic to keep potentially contagious patients away from vulnerable nursing home residents.
Republicans had pushed for the governor to mandate COVID-19 patients be sent to separate facilities where there were no additional adults requiring care.
But the content of Whitmer&#8217;s COVID-19 orders are under seal, LeDuff noted in an op-ed for USA Today, because Michigan&#8217;s governor&#8217;s office is largely exempt from the Freedom of Information Act laws, and the state has been reticent to turn over the information voluntarily. What information they had, they told LeDuff and others, was off-limits because it would reveal private health data in violation of both state and federal law.
Michigan&#8217;s Attorney General, Dana Nessel, is a Whitmer ally and, despite evidence that New York&#8217;s similar policy caused perhaps thousands of deaths, refused to investigate Michigan&#8217;s COVID-19 nursing home edicts, <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/15/gretchen-whitmer-nursing-home-policies-dana-nessel/4707894001/">according to the Detroit Free Press</a>. Nessel claimed the request, which came from Republican lawmakers, did not show &#8220;any law has been violated.&#8221;
&#8220;I appreciate that you and your colleagues have policy disagreements with Governor Whitmer’s response to COVID-19. But an investigation by my office is not the mechanism to resolve those disagreements,&#8221; Nessel said in her response denying the request.
The vote Thursday compels the state&#8217;s health department to begin producing some of the estimated 55,000 individual documents on the issue within two weeks.
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Michigan Senate Votes To Subpoena Whitmer Admin COVID-19 Nursing Home Policy Docs

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who presided over a COVID-19 nursing home policy that may have resulted in thousands of coronavirus-related deaths among the elderly, warned New York&#8217;s unvaccinated and vaccine-hesitant residents that they could kill their grandmothers if they continue to refuse to get a COVID-19 shot.
&#8220;During a press conference on Monday, Cuomo — who is facing down a nursing home scandal and a cornucopia of sexual harassment allegations — said that the state was targeting the &#8216;youthful&#8217; and the &#8216;doubtful&#8217; to get the COVID-19 vaccine,&#8221; per Fox News. &#8220;Cuomo said that there is &#8216;an attitude&#8217; among the unvaccinated that they believe &#8216;they’ll be fine&#8217; and warned that unvaccinated people could have a &#8216;lingering consequence&#8217; of COVID-19.&#8221;
&#8220;There is an attitude of &#8216;they&#8217;ll be fine, why should they take the vaccine,'&#8221; Cuomo said in his presser. &#8220;Maybe you will get a long haul syndrome, that we&#8217;re really not sure what it is yet, but a lingering consequence of COVID.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe you go home and kiss your grandmother and wind up killing your grandmother,&#8221; he then snapped.
Cuomo is, of course, accused of backing a coronavirus-related policy that forced nursing and other long-term adult-care facilities to take in residents recovering from COVID-19 without regard for whether those patients remained contagious or were still testing positive for the virus. That policy, which was rescinded after around two months, may have led to the deaths of thousands of elderly New York residents, including many in facilities that serve the low-income and minority communities.
In August of last year, a public report suggested that as many as 6,500 nursing home residents had died of the novel coronavirus &#8212; an already large number &#8212; but a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-nursing-home-scandal-worse-than-previously-reported-aides-spent-months-hiding-death-toll">recent report from The New York Times</a> suggests that that report could have been off by thousands, and Cuomo aides spent &#8220;months&#8221; trying to hide the true death told of Cuomo&#8217;s nursing home policy. According to The New York Times, a draft report indicated as many as 9,000 nursing home residents had died of COVID-19 by the end of May 2020 &#8212; a full 35% of all New York deaths.
The administration is also alleged to have deliberately hidden the death toll even from New York legislators. In February, a Cuomo aide is reported to have told New York Democrats that the administration refused to give an accurate count of how many people were affected by the administration&#8217;s nursing home policy in order to avoid federal scrutiny. Later reports indicated that Cuomo aides may have hidden the death toll in order to clear the way for Cuomo to sell a book about his pandemic leadership.
The FBI and the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office in Brooklyn are now looking into Cuomo&#8217;s nursing home policy.
Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean, who became a chief advocate for victims of Cuomo&#8217;s nursing home policy after learning that her in-laws likely died of COVID-19 because of the rule, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-warns-unvaccinated-kill-grandmothers">told Fox News that Cuomo</a> had &#8220;some nerve&#8221; calling others &#8220;grandma killers.&#8221;
&#8220;He has some nerve shaming others for possibly endangering their grandparents,&#8221; Dean told the network. &#8220;Over 15,000 elderly are no longer with us thanks in part to his deadly policy to re-admit infected patients into nursing homes. If anyone knows how to kill a grandma, it’s Andrew Cuomo.&#8221;

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