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PufPuf23

(8,764 posts)
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 03:48 PM Mar 2021

Cuomo aide, who is accused of helping cover up nursing-home death tolls, was once a professor of eth

Source: Business Insider via MSN

>Linda Lacewell, a top Cuomo aide, is accused of covering up the number of New York's nursing-home deaths.

>Lacewell was previously Cuomo's Chief of Staff and oversaw "ethics and law enforcement matters."

>She also taught classes on ethics in government at New York University's School of Law.

One of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's senior aides who faces allegations involving the nursing-home death toll cover-up previously taught classes on ethics in government, legal news website Law & Crime reported.

Linda Lacewell, the head of New York's Department of Financial Services, is one of the three top aides accused of changing a report to conceal the real number of deaths in the state's nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The New York Times.

The Cuomo administration publicly cited figures that were roughly 50% lower than the real death toll, The Times reported.

Lacewell, who formerly served as Cuomo's Chief of Staff, is one of the officials who is alleged to have directed the removal of COVID-19 deaths from the report, the New York Post reported.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cuomo-aide-who-is-accused-of-helping-cover-up-nursing-home-death-tolls-was-once-a-professor-of-ethics-in-government/ar-BB1ezrKT?ocid=msedgntp

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Cuomo aide, who is accused of helping cover up nursing-home death tolls, was once a professor of eth (Original Post) PufPuf23 Mar 2021 OP
OMG Beringia Mar 2021 #1
I find it interesting wryter2000 Mar 2021 #2
How do you feel about the Gavin Newsom recall in California? NBachers Mar 2021 #3
Don't know much wryter2000 Mar 2021 #5
A case of truth stranger than fiction. Steelrolled Mar 2021 #4

wryter2000

(46,032 posts)
2. I find it interesting
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 06:06 PM
Mar 2021

That none of the people defending him against the harassment and assault charges will say a peep about this. Same with the allegations of bullying all his staff.

But they're all so eager to call a bunch of women liars. Why is that, I wonder?

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