Joe Concha: Cuomo nursing home scandal now has a 'follow-the-money-angle'

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's nursing home scandal now has a "follow-the-money" angle, Fox News contributor and The Hill media columnist Joe Concha told "America Reports" Friday.

The New York Times reported late Thursday that the Democrat's top aides removed a tally of how many nursing home residents had died in the coronavirus pandemic from a report circulated by state health officials in June.

The Times report noted that the "extraordinary intervention" by Cuomo's administration came as the governor was beginning to write his book, "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic."

"I never thought that we would have a 'follow-the-money' kind of angle in this story like we se in so many scandals," Concha told host John Roberts. "But when you look at what Governor Cuomo got paid as an advance -- $783,000 by [Crown Publishing, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House] ... that's a pretty damning thing when you think about the kind of money that was involved here."

Concha added that the reported alterations to the report came at a tim... (Read more)

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