Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac's NY offices to close due to Letitia James' "corrupt policies"

If arrogance had a face

It looks like New York Attorney General Letitia James is finding out that actions have consequences. Fox News Digital dropped an exclusive bombshell Thursday, revealing that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are permanently shuttering their New York state offices, and they're pointing the finger squarely at James' "corrupt and dangerous business practices."

A source close to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the folks who keep an eye on government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie and Freddie, said: "We are shutting down the two New York offices for Fannie and Freddie as a result of Letitia James' corrupt and dangerous business practices in the state." It doesn't get much clearer than that.

Expect a public announcement on the closures later today, per Fox.

But don’t worry, New Yorkers, Fannie and Freddie aren’t abandoning you entirely. "We’ll still employ New York residents, and we'll still continue to do mortgage loans in New York, of course," the source added. "But we are going to eliminate our physical presence. And to the extent that we have leases, we are going to be subleasing those." So, they're keeping the lights on for business, but they're done with New York's brick-and-mortar scene.

This move comes hot on the heels of a Department of Justice investigation into James' personal mortgage records, which kicked off earlier this year after FHFA chief Bill Pulte sent a criminal referral to the DOJ in April. The allegations claim that James might have fudged some paperwork to score better loan terms. At the center of the probe is a Norfolk, Virginia, home James bought in 2023, which she listed as her primary residence on mortgage documents and a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac form. Problem is, as New York's AG, she's legally required to live in the Empire State. 

But that's not all. The referral also flagged a Brooklyn property James bought back in 2001. The certificate of occupancy says it's a five-unit residence, but James' mortgage docs claim it’s a four-unit property. That kind of discrepancy could, shall we say, complicate mortgage agreements, because somewhere along the line, she's lying.

James, of course, is denying any wrongdoing. 

Her office told the New York Times in April that a separate loan application for the Virginia home made it clear she wouldn't be living there full-time, and her mortgage agreement didn’t require it to be her primary residence. Her attorney, Abbe Lowell, went on the offensive, firing off a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi calling the referral "three pages of stale, threadbare allegations with no reason to proceed other than they are ‘based on media reports’ and are the next salvo in President Trump’s revenge tour against Attorney General James." A "revenge tour"? That's some spicy rhetoric.

Speaking of the President, James has made no secret of her disdain for the 47th president. She campaigned for AG in 2018 by promising to go after him with the full force of the law, vowing to expose the "con man" after her victory. Her office racked up nearly 100 legal challenges against Trump's first administration, and after his 2024 win, she doubled down, pledging to keep hauling him into court to "defend the rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law." 

So, here we are. Fannie and Freddie are packing up their New York offices, the DOJ is sniffing around James' mortgage deals, and the political feud between James and Trump is as fiery as ever. Something tells me this story has more twists to come. 

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NY's largest private health care provider fired 1,400 employees who refused the Fauci jab

Some people have religious objections to the Covid vaccine; some already had the virus and their immune systems protect them from the virus better than vaccines; some just want to exercise their God-given [as opposed to government given] rights to not take the vaccine and take their own chances of dealing with Covid. People under 40 with no medical pre-conditions are not at all likely to die from Covid and younger folks and kids, have almost a zero to negligible chance of being hospitalized or dying.

But to listen to Reverend Fauci,  a guy who has made all recent medical decisions based on the politics of an administration headed by an old man probably suffering from senile dementia, you would think that we must remain in a pandemic mindset until the last case of COVID-19 is wiped off the face of the Earth. Forget it--COVID-19 is likely here to stay forever and we just need to get on with our lives.

Northwell Health, New York's largest private health care provider, fired 1,400 employees who refused the vaccine--they used the term "had to exit" as opposed to "fire," because they want to sound like movie theater ushers.

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A spokesperson for the company confirmed Monday that it fired the 1.400 employees and can now brag that all of their skeleton crew is fully vaccinated.

"Northwell regrets losing any employee under such circumstances, but as health care professionals and members of the largest health care provider in the state, we understand our unique responsibility to protect the health of our patients and each other," the spokesperson ironically said. "We owe it to our staff, our patients, and the communities we serve to be 100% vaccinated against COVID-19."

The spokesperson bullsh***ed that having a fully vaccinated staff will allow Northwell to "provide exceptional care at all of our facilities, without interruption and remain open and fully operational," personal liberties be damned.

Isn't it interesting how health care staff were heroes when they provided care without being vaccinated, but now that they chose not to get vaccinated, when their patients can, they get fired. If the freaking vaccine works for the patients,  and masks work for staff, what's the problem?

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Woke MLB moving All-Star game from mostly Black city to mostly White city

In spite of the fact that New York voting laws are more restrictive than those of Georgia's, Major League Baseball's commissioner, Rob Manfred, is too cowardly to stand his ground and has given in to the woke minority. He will be moving the 2021 All-Star game to Denver in spite of the huge number of Black residents and others it will hurt in Atlanta.

According to U.S. Census numbers, Atlanta is 51% Black; Denver is 9% percent Black. So the move will hurt Black businesses significantly more in Georgia while helping White businesses in Colorado. How "woke" can you get?

Nearly 30% of businesses in Atlanta are Black-owned, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The game will now be played at Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies and lots of White people.

According to 2019 U.S. Census data, Atlanta is 51% Black and 40.9% White, while Denver is 9.2% Black and 76% White.

Democrats have lied about the changes made in Georgia's new voting laws. They claim it will make it harder for people of color to vote. Some may even die of dehydration or starvation if you believe their lies, especially the lies spouted by President Biden.

As it turns out, Georgia has more opportunities to vote compared to states like New York, run by a Democrat and alleged sexual predator Andrew Cuomo.

But that's woke for you.

Jackie Robinson may be turning over in his grave.

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Handy Andy is preoccupied with his "hand" size says Charlotte Bennett

"Stop! In the name of love"

Charlotte Bennett, one of seven Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) accusers of sexual harassment told independent investigators that her former boss has a "preoccupation with his hand size," and told them what that apparently meant, her attorney said Monday.

Bennett, who was a former aide to the governor, spoke with outside lawyers hired by Attorney General [and a probable hopeful for the vacated governor's job] Letitia James. They spent about 4 hours on a video of a Chinese-owned company known as Zoom on Monday, her lawyer Debra Katz said.

Bennett, 25, had turned over more than 120 pages of “contemporaneous records, as well as other examples of documentary evidence” against the 63-year-old sex-driven governor with an apparently oversized libido and his staff, Katz said using different words to describe Cuomo.

In a prepared statement, Katz said a new piece of information that came to light was Cuomo’s “preoccupation with his hand size and what the large size of his hands indicated to Charlotte and other members of his staff.” [Big hands, big, giant, throbbing heart?]

Katz didn’t elaborate on that matter, but anyone born before 2005 knows what was implied by Handy Andy.

“The investigators have been moving quickly, and with sensitivity, to get to the heart of these allegations,” she said. 

Charlotte Bennett

“We remain confident that their investigation will substantiate Charlotte’s claims of sexual harassment against Gov. Cuomo, as well as the failure of his senior staff to meet their mandatory reporting requirements under the very laws he signed.”

But will the staff's butts be put in slings? Probably not so much.

Cuomo has been accused of groping, harassing, speaking through his nostrils, or otherwise engaging in inappropriate behavior with seven women, including five current and former aides. Brain Flushings' anonymous source tells us that there may be more complaints coming from a famous group of 15 women [who will for now remain unnamed] that dance in synchrony at Radio City Music Hall and are known for their marvelous leg-kicks.

Cuomo has denied touching anyone inappropriately, except for his brother, Fredo, or any other intentional wrongdoing and has vowed to cooperate with the probe unless he changes his mind.

Doesn't it feel like this scandal isn't going to go very far, and that Cuomo is going to remain in office where he can do the most damage?

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NY State Senate Majority Leader Waiting for 4th Accuser before calling for Cuomo's resignation

In a Muslim country, if a man rapes a woman she must have 3 witnesses of the crime in order to be believed, otherwise she can be stoned to death for adultery if she is married. 

In New York State, the governor must have four women who claim to have been sexually harassed by him in order for the Democratic State Senate Majority Leader to call for his resignation. Three women just aren't enough when it comes to Democrats; four is the required number when it comes to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) refuses to call for Cuomo's resignation unless another alleged victim of the governor's sexual improprieties comes forward.

Stewart-Cousins spoke on "Capital Tonight," a public affairs program in Albany, New York, the New York Post reported, where she drew the line at four accusers, for reasons only she knows. The program was recorded "just hours before CBS News broadcast a wrenching interview with one of Cuomo's three accusers," the Post wrote.

Her words: “Any further people coming forward, I think it would be time to resign.”

To her cowardly credit, Stewart-Cousins admitted that she just might ask for Cuomo's resignation depending on the findings of NY State Attorney General Letitia James' investigation into the allegations. The chances of James finding enough dirt on Cuomo to remove him from office is good since there's an excellent possibility that she might be hoping to get his job.

Stewart-Cousins’ remarks were taped just three hours before Albany’s CBS affiliate aired an interview with Charlotte Bennett, a former executive assistant and policy advisor to the Cuomo administration. Ms. Bennett said that Cuomo asked her inappropriate “questions about her sex life, whether her relationships were monogamous, and whether she ever had sex with older men.”

Before Bennett voiced her allegations against Cuomo, Lindsey Boylan, who also worked for him until she resigned due to sexual harassment, she alleges.

Compared to the unsubstantiated and even disputed allegations against a high school age Brett Kavanaugh, one woman making sexual misconduct claims should have been enough.

But who are they kidding? 

The whole sexual allegations scandal is really a way for the Democrats and media [same old, same old] to distract the public from the real Cuomo scandal and that's the COVIDS-19 deaths caused by the governor's nursing home mandates in which residents with coronavirus were returned to their nursing homes and infected fellow residents.

That is the real scandal and we must never take our eyes off the ball.

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Stefanik says Cuomo implicated in "criminal scandal" over COVID nursing home deaths

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) was implicated in a "criminal corruption scandal" regarding New York's reported undercounting of coronavirus deaths in the state's nursing homes.

Stefanik spoke on Fox News' "The Story" with Martha MacCallum saying that New York lawmakers must hold Cuomo accountable for the state's serious underreporting of their death count in nursing homes.

Never admitting blame or responsibility when he has screwed the pooch, Cuomo defended his policy by insisting he followed federal guidelines at the time. If that was true, then why were other states not doing what Cuomo mandated: requiring nursing homes to take back COVID-positive patients from hospitals? 

The fact is, the guidelines specifically required that nursing homes meet strict standards and have special equipment before being allowed to take back COVID residents. Cuomo failed to take the guidelines seriously.

"This is the governor who has pointed fingers at everyone. He's pointed fingers at President Trump. He's pointed fingers at the seniors themselves, at the nursing homes, basically blaming everyone but himself," Stefanik said.

Cuomo is a garbage governor, a liar and an incompetent leader, in the opinion of many who get their news from more than leftist sources.

Stefanik went after the media and CNN in particular for its coverage of the failed governor, whose brother Chris "Fredo" Cuomo is a primetime anchor of a far-left show. On it, Fredo did an insensitive comedy act with his brother in the middle of the pandemic.

"It is a disgrace that CNN allows Chris Cuomo to just invite his brother and do those ridiculous fawning interviews. It’s an embarrassment now to the media," she said, not realizing that for CNN to be embarrassed, they need to have a modicum of self-awareness.

Stefanik said in the interview: 

"This is the governor who has pointed fingers at everyone. He's pointed fingers at President Trump. He's pointed fingers at the seniors themselves, at the nursing homes, basically blaming everyone but himself. In terms of following federal guidance, it is very clear that Governor Cuomo made the decision to put forth his executive order on March 25 requiring nursing homes to accept positive COVID patients, regardless of their ability to isolate those patients and have proper PPE ...

"My thoughts are this governor has avoided the truth for months and months and months. The reason why this is a criminal corruption scandal and not just a nursing home scandal is that they have known for months what the true count of deaths in nursing homes [was], whether it was in a hospital from a nursing home, or an individual who passed away in the nursing home and they have withheld that from the public ...There needs to be subpoenas issued immediately. Both Democrats and Republicans in the State Senate and State Assembly have agreed to that ..."

Let's not forget how Cuomo and New Jersey's Governor Murphy both complimented then President Trump for the federal assistance they received from his administration. New York, for example, received an entire hospital ship and respirators that ended up in excess or was underused by Cuomo.

But who are we kidding? These people are rarely held accountable for what should be described as criminal behavior.

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Cuomo the nursing home killer, rejects independent investigation into NY deaths

It's great to be in power as a governor of a state. You can basically get away with decisions you've made that killed people and maybe even run for President of the United States in the near future.

Enter Andrew Cuomo, the slightly less dumber Cuomo brother, with testicles bigger than pumpkins.

New York Gov. Cuomo said on Monday that "you'd have to be blind" to believe calls for an investigation into the over 6,200 China virus deaths in New York State nursing homes was "not political."

Bigger than pumpkins.

He believes that his incredibly mindless miscalculation, that elderly folks who contracted the coronavirus, must be returned to the nursing home that had sent them to the hospital before the illness had been resolved, is a political move and not a bonehead move by him.

Now the nasal-talking governor said at a press conference that he  “wouldn’t do an investigation” into the nursing home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic in the state of New York.

Because if he did, he would be exposed for the schmuck that he is.

“I wouldn’t do an investigation whether or not it’s political, everybody can make that decision for themselves,” Cuomo said through his nose. “I think you’d have to be blind to realize it’s not political.”

He went on to honk, “Just look at where it comes from and look at the sources and look at their political affiliations and look at who wrote the letter in Congress and look at what publications raise it and what media outward networks raise it.”

He added: “It’s kind of incredible.”

New York State leads the nation in coronavirus deaths and while folks were dying, the idiot governor was appearing on the Comedy News Network (CNN) with his young, dumber brother, Chris "Fredo" Cuomo, to yuck it up and have a good ole time talking about Andrew's big nose and how he's back on the dating scene.

Fredo Cuomo, by the way, contracted coronavirus and left his home when he was supposed to remain in quarantine. Then a week or so later, the cretin emerged from his basement, pretending to have been there for two weeks, proving once again, that he is the dumber Cuomo bro.

Cuomo has blamed “dirty politics” for the accusations he has faced over his order, which he eventually rescinded on May 10. He said it was a “political conspiracy that the deaths in nursing homes were preventable.”

Cuomo got his license to practice armchair medicine at Yahuppets University and a YouTube video.

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., who is a leader of a House subcommittee on the COVID crisis, said in a letter to Cuomo last month that “[b]lame-shifting, name-calling and half-baked data manipulations will not make the facts or the questions they raise go away.”

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi responded, saying: “We’re used to Republicans denying science but now they are screeching about time, space and dates on a calendar to distract from the federal government’s many, many, embarrassing failures. No one is buying it.”

Azz [as his friend calls him] also said that there are 57 genders and anyone who denies that denies the science of the left. He then yelled, "Reclaiming my time!"


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New York's dumbest blasted by federal judge for limiting worship while cheering mass protests

The comedy team known to some New Yorkers as "Dumb and Dumber" and whose real names are Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio [actually, de Blasio's real name is Warren Wilhelm Jr., but that's another story] along with state Attorney General Letitia James, were told they "exceeded" their executive boundaries by limiting worship services while cheering on mass protests that fit their anarchist agenda, as the state slowly continues to reopen from restrictions over coronavirus.

U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe issued a  preliminary injunction Friday brought by two Catholic priests, Frs. Steven Soos and Nicholas Stamos, and three Orthodox Jewish worshippers from Brooklyn, NY, Echanan Perr, Daniel Schonborn and Mayer Mayerfeld

The suit against the three leftists were filed in the Northern District of New York after thousands of protesters and rioters took to the streets of the Big Wormy Apple following the George Floyd killing by a former police officer who has since been arrested and is awaiting trial.

Comrade de Blasio had "simultaneous pro-protest/anti-religious gathering messages" when he "actively encouraged participation in protests and openly discouraged religious gatherings and threatened religious worshipers," Sharpe said in his federal order.

"Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio could have just as easily discouraged protests, short of condemning their message, in the name of public health and exercised discretion to suspend enforcement for public safety reasons instead of encouraging what they knew was a flagrant disregard of the outdoor limits and social distancing rules," the judge added. "They could have also been silent. But by acting as they did, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio sent a clear message that mass protests are deserving of preferential treatment."

Sadly, the mainstream media will probably not report this story or they will have to distort the facts because it really shows these asshats for what they are: anti-religious garbage. 

The mayor and governor were sued by the priests and Jewish congregants for using the Chinese Communist Wuhan coronavirus restrictions to discriminate against Jews and Christians, but at least they didn't come down hard on the mosques for some reason, nor should they.

Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara celebrated the judge's decision and called Cuomo's executive orders a "sham" that "went right out the window as soon as he and Mayor de Blasio saw a mass protest movement they favored taking to the streets by the thousands."

"Suddenly, the limit on ‘mass gatherings’ was no longer necessary to ‘save lives,’" Ferrara said to Fox News in a statement. "Yet they were continuing to ban high school graduations and other outdoor gatherings exceeding a mere 25 people."

He added, "This decision is an important step toward inhibiting the suddenly emerging trend of exercising absolute monarchy on [the] pretext of public health. What this kind of regime really meant in practice is freedom for me, but not for thee.”

The petty tyrants have been quelled.

As a result of the federal order, Cuomo, James, and de Blasio are "enjoined and restrained from enforcing any indoor gathering limitations” against the involved houses of worship “greater than imposed for Phase 2 industries,” provided that participants follow the prescribed social distancing.

This trio of dolts is also forbidden from “enforcing any limitation for outdoor gatherings provided that participants in such gatherings follow social distancing requirements as set forth in the applicable executive orders and guidance.”

Thus, houses of worship will remain limited to 25 percent of indoor capacity during Phases 2 and 3, and a 25 person limit outdoors in Phase 3.

Thomas More also pointed out that among many of the violations cited in the lawsuit, de Blasio blatantly ignored social distancing and the 10-person limit when he did not wear a face mask on June 4th during a leftist political gathering at New York City's Cadman Plaza. It was also pointed out that several days following that violation, Hasidic Jewish children in Williamsburg, Brooklyn were kicked out of a park by a police officer to enforce Cuomo and de Blasio's 10-person limit on "non-essential gatherings," which are determined to be whatever de Blasio and Cuomo says they are.

In April, comrade de Blasio threatened the Jewish community -- which had a string of attacks this past winter -- with arrests and prosecutions for "illegal" mass religious gatherings after police in Williamsburg broke up the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz.

“My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,” de Blasio, an obvious anti-Semite wrote in a tweet. "I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period."

De Blasio had to apologize for targeting the Jewish community, but he doubled down and called his anti-Semitism "tough love."

Bill de Blasio is a fool to be reckoned with, as is Cuomo, who has killed more New Yorkers than 911 by forcing Covid patients back into nursing homes, while blaming Trump for his actions.

Hopefully there will come a time when Democrat voters wake up and see their so-called leaders for what they are.

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Cuomo tries to cover his butt over Covid deaths in nursing homes

The slightly less dumber brother of the Cuomo dynamic duo, Andrew, can brag that his state of which he governs, is number one in the nation for Chinese Communist Wuhan coronavirus deaths, and a hugely disproportionate number of those deaths are from nursing home residents. Why? Because Cuomo ordered all nursing home residents who were hospitalized for the virus to be returned to their respective nursing home.

Now the weasel is saying that "nobody" should be prosecuted over coronavirus deaths, including nursing homes, and said that older people were "always going to die from this virus."

Seriously, the guys is a total scumcrumpet.

Cuomo has made almost daily appearances on national television to pontificate his thoughts and plans in dealing with the pandemic. In addition, he has been interviewed by Chris, his even less intelligent brother who defied his 14 day quarantine when and got the virus, and who got a gig on CNN because his father was Mario Cuomo [which is how Andrew became governor]. The two idiots joke and chide each other in a cutesy brotherly banter, and it has become obvious to the public that Andrew is thinking about a presidential run in the future as he does his best to appear as if he knows what he's doing.

Cuomo has come under fire for his policy enacted March 25 forcing nursing homes to take in COVID-19 positive patients, which has only recently been reversed without an apology for the deaths he has caused.

One reporter at an Albany press conference on Sunday asked Cuomo what he had to say to families who had lost loved ones in nursing homes to coronavirus. “They’re looking for accountability and they feel that they were failed, what’s the comment to that?"

The useless politician noted that 139 people had died in New York state from the virus on Saturday. “How do we get justice for those families? Who can we prosecute for those deaths? Nobody. Mother Nature, God, where did this virus come from? People are going to die by this virus, that is the truth.”

Especially the elderly who are placed among others with the virus. You dolt!

“Older people, vulnerable people, are going to die from this virus,” Cuomo added annoyingly through his nose. “That is going to happen despite whatever you do, with all our progress as a society, we can't keep everyone alive. Older people are more vulnerable. That is a fact that is not going to change.”

Uh, is it really a fact that the nursing home deaths couldn't be prevented in spite of other states having a significantly lower death rate because they weren't co-mingling the sick with the rest of the nursing home population? Is it a fact that your policy was responsible for those deaths?

Cuomo pretends to know what he's talking about but not a shred of it is based in real fact. He's a poseur and a fraud.

More than 4,800 people died from COVID-19 in nursing homes in New York from March 1 to May 1, according to a count by the governor’s office. Roughly 25 percent of all deaths in the state occurred in nursing homes because of this schmuck's mindless policy based on his need for power.

The reporter pressed Cuomo about his nursing home policy once again: “Some think that the mandates that are currently in place, if they were in place from the get-go, they feel that their loved ones might still be here.” [He was referring to the new change in policy where he kept the sick elderly away from the non- infected residents in nursing homes.]

“People rationalize death in different ways. I don't think there is any logical rationale to say they would be alive today,” the governor said in his anemic defense that ironically was totally devoid of logic.

On May 10, Cuomo revealed a requirement for hospital patients to test negative for coronavirus before being discharged to nursing homes, effectively reversing his previous policy. He also announced a policy requiring all New York nursing homes and adult care facilities to test staff members for COVID-19 twice a week and report positive cases to the state.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), is demanding a federal probe into Cuomo's deadly policy.

"Today I joined my [New York GOP] colleagues in the House to call for a federal investigation of Cuomo's failed nursing home policies," Stefanik tweeted Friday. "NOW they admit they unethically changed the way they report nursing home deaths. An INEXCUSABLE tragedy for NY -- NEED ANSWERS."

Andrew Cuomo will still be lauded by the leftist, Democratic media as some kind of hero, when, in fact, he's a buffoon.


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New York comes up with an additional 1,700 nursing home deaths

New York now reports that over 1.700 undisclosed COVID-19 deaths occurred in nursing homes, mostly due to the fact that NY Gov. Andrew "I'm Single Now" Cuomo had coronavirus elderly return to their nursing homes and senior living/adult care facilities in the midst of the pandemic. Now the state faces scrutiny over how it failed to protect our most vulnerable.

No less than 4,813 people have died from Chinese Communist Wuhan Wet Market Coronavirus in the state's nursing homes since March 1, according to a tally released by the incompetent Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration late Monday. For the first time the data includes people believed to have been killed by the coronavirus before their diagnoses could be confirmed by a lab test.

The precise number of nursing home residents who died is unclear despite New York's latest disclosure,  as the list doesn’t include nursing home residents who were transferred to hospitals before dying.

In the above April 17, 2020 photo, a patient is loaded into an ambulance by emergency medical workers outside Cobble Hill Health Center, near Court Street in Brooklyn, New York.

The revised list shows that 22 nursing homes, mostly in New York City and Long Island, have reported at least 40 deaths.

Parker Jewish Institute in Queens and Isabella Geriatric Center — one of New York City’s largest nursing homes with 705 beds — have reported the highest number of deaths: 71 and 64, respectively.

Audrey Waters, a spokeswoman for Isabella Geriatric Center, wrote in an email, "Isabella, like all other nursing homes in New York City, initially had limited access to widespread and consistent in-house testing to quickly diagnose our residents and staff. This hampered our ability to identify those who were infected and asymptomatic, despite our efforts to swiftly separate anyone who presented symptoms.”

In many cases, the state’s new figures reveal many more deaths than previously reported at nursing homes: Isabella Geriatric Center had 13 COVID-19 deaths reported as of May 1, and now reports the deaths of 21 patients who were confirmed to have COVID-19 along with 43 deaths of residents presumed to have COVID-19. And Ozanam Hall of Queens now is reporting a total of 53 deaths, up from just 10.

Several veterans homes have been hard-hit by the virus:  The Long Island State Veterans Home reported 53 deaths, including 48 confirmed and five presumed COVID-19 deaths. The New York State Veterans Home at St. Albans in Queens has reported 33 deaths while New York State Veterans Home at Montrose in Westchester says 22 residents have died.

Cuomo promised on March 2, when only a handful of coronavirus cases had been reported in New York, to make a “special effort” for nursing homes and congregate homes housing senior citizens. He directed nursing homes to screen visitors and consider modifying visiting hours on March 6, which makes no sense at all because the viruses don't own wristwatches.

But Cuomo and his administration screwed up in overseeing and supporting New York’s overwhelmed, state-regulated nursing homes as many have struggled to treat COVID-19 patients or amass enough personal protective gear or ensure adequate staffing.

Advocacy groups for the elderly and family members of nursing home residents have called for greater transparency over COVID-19 cases at each state-regulated nursing home and criticized an April 1 state law granting some immunity to hospitals and nursing homes from civil and criminal liability to protect the administration's incompetency. 

They also questioned the state’s biggest screw up by a March 25 policy that says “no resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to a nursing home solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19."

Brilliant.

The governor and his incompetent administration defended that policy as ensuring nursing home residents that they aren’t left lingering in hospitals to be treated, or have nowhere else to go to die.

Cuomo’s spokesperson tweeted Monday that the policy follows federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidance [they are the government and they're here to help].

However, the federal guidance says only that a nursing home “can accept a resident diagnosed with COVID-19” so long as the nursing home can follow federal guidance on transmission precautions. 

This obviously wasn't thought through very well as the spread within nursing homes was faster than a speeding bullet. But Cuomo keeps making myriad TV appearances in the hope that he will finally be considered a presidential candidate in the future.



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