Cuomo Slammed By Political Pressure, Accuser Exposes Dark Side Of Governor, Aids Rewrote Nursing Home Death Toll Report

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is taking all the heat and both scandals from accusers to the nursing home deaths need the same attention. His former aide said Cuomo was ‘trying to sleep with me’ when she talked with him in a one-on-one meeting at his Albany office and shared that her being 25, ‘he implied to me that I was old enough for him and he was lonely.’

“I thought, he’s trying to sleep with me. The governor’s trying to sleep with me and I’m deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out of this room as soon as possible,” Bennett said.

Bennett is one of the three women who have made misconduct allegations against Cuomo but he has rejected the allegations while apologizing during a Wednesday news conference to claim, “I never knew at the time I was making anyone feel uncomfortable.”

Bennet said his statement was not an apology and said ‘it’s an issues of actions.’

“It’s not an issue of my feelings. It’s an issue of his actions. The fact is that he was sexually harassing me and he has not apologized for sexually harassing me. And he can’t even use my name,” Bennet said.

World New Tonight shared the statement made by Gov. Cuomo, “I fully support a woman’s right to come forward…I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable.”

“The allegations by Bennett, Boylan and a third woman — Anna Ruch, 33, who says Cuomo grabbed her face and kissed her without her consent at a Manhattan wedding reception in 2019 — are the subject of a pending probe by an independent law firm to be selected by Attorney General Letitia James,” NY post reported.

This political pressure grows as reports of accusers flood the mainstream media but this cannot take the attention away from the news of the New York governor hiding the death toll in nursing homes.

Nursing home death scandal, aids rewrote report to hide death toll

The New York Times reviewed interviews and documents, “The number — more than 9,000 by that point in June — was not public, and the governor’s most senior aides wanted to keep it that way. They rewrote the report to take it out.”

The New York governor released the data this year as he was more concerned about the Trump administration holding him accountable which Cuomo should be for attempting to downplay the numbers.

“After the state attorney general revealed earlier this year that thousands of deaths of nursing home residents had been undercounted, Mr. Cuomo finally released the complete data, saying he had withheld it out of concern that the Trump administration might pursue a politically motivated inquiry into the state’s handling of the outbreak in nursing homes.”

The aids who helped change the report are Melissa DeRosa, Cuomo’s top aide’ Linda Lacewell, the head of state’s Department of Financial Services; and Jim Malatras, a former top adviser to Cuomo who was brought back to work with the pandemic. All of them had no public health expertise.

“As the nursing home report was being written, the New York State Health Department’s data — contained in a chart reviewed by The Times that was included in a draft — put the death toll roughly 50 percent higher than the figure then being cited publicly by the Cuomo administration,” New York Times found.

Below CBS Evening News posted, “CUOMO ACCUERS SPEAKS OUT: In her first television interview, Charlotte Bennett, a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaks with @NorahODonnell about her allegations of sexual harassment against the governor, providing the most detailed account yet from one of Cuomo’s accusers.”

Full video from interview, ‘CBS News Exclusive: Ex-Cuomo aid details governor’s alleged sexual harassment’