More problems for Andrew Cuomo: New …

After the scandal sparked by the allegations of sexual harassment against him and the requests to resign for this reason, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been accused of falsifying data on coronary heart disease deaths in nursing homes of that state.

The revelation that could jeopardize the career of one of the most promising Democratic leaders has been made by the The New York Times, who in its Friday edition reported that “Some of the Governor’s top aides (advisers)” rewrote pandemic progress report through June to hide the fact that over 9,000 older people have died housed in residences.

The newspaper assures that there are documents which show that Cuomo publicly provided data on deaths in nursing homes 50 percent lower than those provided by the Department of Health.

This information would correspond to the first months of the pandemic which continues to place the United States as the country most affected by the coronavirus. The remarkable thing is that It happened while the governor was writing a book in which he gave lessons on how to deal with the severe crisis., as he himself had anticipated.

The new revelations are another blow after three women publicly accused him of inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment.

Earlier this year INew York Attorney General Letitia James revealed that the New York government decided not to report thousands of deaths in residence geriatric.

After that, Cuomo published them and He justified that he had not done it before to prevent then-President Donald Trump from using them to launch attacks against him. for political reasons. Later, this official data was compared with that found in nursing homes, and the scandal erupted.

Members of the New York Democratic Party rose up against Coumo both for his attempts to hide the death of the elderly, for his management in these centers and for his ways of aggressively imposing his will on other regional leaders.