House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., has referred former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for criminal prosecution.
Cuomo, who is now considered the leading candidate in the upcoming June Democratic primary for New York City mayor, was originally referred to the Biden Justice Department in October 2024. At the time, former Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), then-chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, accused Cuomo of making “multiple criminally false statements” to Congress regarding his handling of COVID-19-related nursing home deaths in 2020. READ MORE