The Ministry of Justice opened an investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo concerning his testimony at the Congress during the Cavid-19 pandemic, two familiar officials said on Tuesday.
The investigation comes from months after the DoJ abandoned the accusations against the current mayor of New York, Eric Adams. Adams and Cuomo appear for the mayor during the next elections.
The news was reported for the first time by the New York Times.
The Ministry of Justice had no comments when reached by CBS News.
In a statement, Rich Azzopardi, spokesperson for Cuomo, said that the former governor had had no contact with the application of the case on the case or had received assignments.
“We have never been informed of such a matter, so why is someone fleeing it now?” Azzopardi said. “The answer is obvious: it is clear and simple legislation and electoral interference – something that President Trump and his senior officials from the Ministry of Justice say they are against.”
Congress Republicans have in a hurry The Ministry of Justice To investigate Cuomo for months, accusing him of lying at Congress during an investigation into deaths by Coronavirus in nursing homes – a problem that criticisms have Long accused Cuomo of having poorly managed.
In a criminal benchmark last year, a chamber panel on the Pandemic of Covid-19 alleged that Cuomo was involved in the drafting and drafting of a state report in 2020 on the deaths of nursing houses, but he told the committee in June 2024 that it was not involved. The referral claims that Cuomo violated a law against false statements to the congress.
The Ministry of Justice of the Biden era did not act on the reference. But after President Trump came into office, representative James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who chairs the Chamber’s supervisory committee, urged federal prosecutors to examine the case, alleging that Cuomo had “taken the relive at the Congress”.
“Governor Cuomo honestly testified the best of his memories on the four years earlier events, and he proposed to answer all the follow -up questions of the subcommittee – but from the start, everything was in a transparent political way,” Azzopardi told CBS News.
Mr. Trump’s Ministry of Justice was exposed to a meticulous examination for its management of criminal affairs involving democrats.
Months before the Cuomo’s investigation became public, the Ministry of Justice sparked criticism for having ended a criminal prosecution of Adams – one of Cuomo’s competitors in the town hall race – for the alleged offenses of corruption and campaign financing. One of the main leaders in the department said the charges Has hampered Adams’ ability to present itself to re -election or govern the city, and had made more difficult for Adams to cooperate with the federal government on crime.
Several members of the Manhattan Federal Prosecutor’s Office resigned to protest And accused the administration of a consideration, effectively leaving Adams in exchange for cooperation with the application of immigration to the Trump administration. The Trump and Adams administration denied any counterpart.
This week, federal prosecutors charge The representative Lamonica Mciver, a Democrat in New Jersey, with criminal assaults during a confrontation in a detention center for immigration and customs in Newark. Prosecutors claim to have attacked a federal agent responsible for the application of laws, but she described the accusations of “purely political”.
The Prosecutor General of New York Letitia James – whose office continued Mr. Trump for fraud – was Referral for criminal proceedings By the nominated chief to Trump of the Federal Housing Finance Agency last month. The office accused James of falsifying documents to obtain a more favorable mortgage rate, which James called “without foundation”. It is not known whether the Ministry of Justice chooses to bring charges.
