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The families of victims who died from COVID while residing in New York nursing homes are urging the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The New York Post reported that the loved ones are pushing for charges against Cuomo after recently surfaced emails and congressional documents suggested that the disgraced governor personally altered a report that downplayed the state's nursing home deaths.
'He must be held accountable.'
In a letter to the DOJ, Peter Arbeeny, Vivian Zayas, and Janice Dean argued that Cuomo lied to members of Congress when he claimed during two separate hearings that he did not recall seeing the 2020 New York State Department Health report, let alone reviewing or editing it, before its release.
"We call on the Department of Justice to launch a full and fair investigation into Andrew Cuomo's statements to Congress, his coordination with other witnesses, and his role in covering up the nursing home death toll," the letter to the DOJ read.
"If it is found that he knowingly misled Congress and the American people or interfered with the congressional inquiry, he must be held accountable under the law," it continued. "The families who lost loved ones deserve the truth, and the public deserves to know that no one is above the law, especially those entrusted with public office."
Emails recently released by the New York Times revealed that Cuomo may have been more involved with the report than he told lawmakers.
A June 23, 2020, email from Cuomo's then-assistant, Farah Kennedy, suggested that the then-governor personally made edits to the report.
The email stated, "Governor's edits are attached for your review."
"The smaller text in the beginning is from your original document. He replaced your paragraph on page 3 beginning with 'But, like in all fifty states, there were Covid-positive cases,'" the email added.
"The larger text," Kennedy wrote, "is what he added."
Cuomo's alleged suggested edits included adding language that emphasized how "community spread among employees or possibly visitation by family and friends were relevant factors" in the nursing home deaths.
The Times also released congressional documents that revealed that the report had apparently been sent to his home, at his aide's request, before it was released.
The news outlet found that some of Cuomo's requested edits were included in the final report, which understated the nursing home deaths.
Vivian Zayas, co-founder of Voice for Seniors, told the Post, "He said he had nothing to do with the report."
"If he lied to Congress, he committed a crime. He should definitely be investigated," Zayas added. "We're going to see this through to the end. Cuomo needs to be held accountable."
Rich Azzopardi, a Cuomo spokesperson, told the Post on Sunday, "We are long past the point of absurd."
"We sympathize with every one of the 1 million-plus families who lost loved ones, but the continued attempts to purposefully distort and politically weaponize this pandemic are both transparent and sad," he told the Post.
Following the Times' report, Azzopardi stated, "Governor Cuomo was fully cooperative with the committee over two separate days, relayed everything he remembered about events that happened four years ago in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, and nothing this MAGA committee has uncovered undermines that New York followed [then-President Donald] Trump's CDC nursing home policies or the DOH report's conclusion that COVID was spread in nursing homes by asymptomatic staff."
Some Democratic politicians have also pushed for Cuomo to be held accountable.
Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens) recently stated, "I've stood with the families of nursing homes and will continue to stand with them to hold the former governor accountable."
"Andrew Cuomo has consistently lied and gaslit the public in pursuit of his book deal and political ambitions," Kim continued. "Now, we must hold him accountable and seize this opportunity to fix our broken long-term care system."
City Councilman Lincoln Restler (D) accused Cuomo of providing "misleading and inaccurate" testimony.
"Time and again, he reveals himself to be someone New Yorkers cannot trust and who does not belong in public office," Restler said.
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Andrew Cuomo PERSONALLY edited report downplaying COVID nursing home deaths, email reveals: 'Governor's edits are attached'
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently and repeatedly claimed that he does not recall seeing the 2020 New York State Department of Health report before its release. However, emails and congressional documents revealed that Cuomo may have been much more involved in the report than previously admitted.
Cuomo testified at a private hearing in June and a public hearing this month as part of a congressional subcommittee investigation into New York for its COVID response, including the more than 15,000 reported COVID-related nursing home deaths.
'He should be prosecuted.'
The disgraced governor was asked multiple times about the Health Department report, which deflected blame for the deaths. He claimed he did not remember seeing the report, let alone reviewing or editing it, before it was released.
However, a June 23, 2020, email from his then-assistant, Farah Kennedy, suggested Cuomo was far more involved in the report than he had previously admitted, the New York Times reported.
"Governor's edits are attached for your review," read Kennedy's email, which was sent to members of Cuomo's senior staff.
"The smaller text in the beginning is from your original document. He replaced your paragraph on page 3 beginning with 'But, like in all fifty states, there were Covid-positive cases,'" Kennedy's email explained.
Cuomo requested adding language to the report that emphasized how "community spread among employees or possibly visitation by family and friends were relevant factors" in the nursing home deaths.
"The larger text," Kennedy wrote, "is what he added."
Additionally, the Times also uncovered congressional documents that suggested one of Cuomo's aides had requested on June 29, 2020, that the report be sent to the former governor's home.
"Please print two copies and drop at mansion," it read.
A week after the aide's request, the report was published, and some of Cuomo's edits were included, according to the Times report.
Tracey Alvino, director of Voices for Seniors, whose father passed away after contracting COVID while residing in a New York City nursing home, accused Cuomo of lying to Congress, the New York Post reported.
"It's a crime. It's proven by the emails," Alvino stated. "Absolutely, he should be prosecuted. I would love to see him in an orange jumpsuit."
Vivian Zayas, co-founder of Voice for Seniors, whose mother died after contracting COVID in a New York City nursing home, also accused Cuomo of lying.
"He said he had nothing to do with the report," Zayas remarked. "If he lied to Congress, he committed a crime. He should definitely be investigated."
"We're going to see this through to the end. Cuomo needs to be held accountable," Zayas added.
A Cuomo spokesperson, Rich Azzopardi, stated, "Governor Cuomo was fully cooperative with the committee over two separate days, relayed everything he remembered about events that happened four years ago in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic and nothing this MAGA committee has uncovered undermines that New York followed [then-President Donald] Trump's CDC nursing home policies or the DOH report's conclusion that COVID was spread in nursing homes by asymptomatic staff."
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Almost a decade ago, Disney announced that it would finally be moving ahead with a live-action remake of “Mulan.”
The animated musical adventure was a huge hit when released in 1998. But now it was 2015, and anxieties surrounding race, transgenderism, and workplace sexual harassment were nearing their peak.
This Mulan is not the liberal feminist icon she’s been made out to be; she’s more Joan of Arc than Captain Marvel. What drives her is love, not ambition.
In retrospect, not the best time for an American company to tell a story set in ancient China and inspired by a well-known Chinese legend. Nor was it the ideal environment in which to cast a heroine who disguises herself as a man to in order to join the imperial army only to fall in love with a superior officer.
'Inappropriate' romance
From the beginning, calls to oust white artists from the project trended online. Disney attempted to play ball; its first choice of director, Ang Lee, was unavailable to direct.
Mulan's love interest from the original film, Captain Li Shang, was dropped in exchange for two new characters in response to the #MeToo movement. Producer Jason Reed explained that "having a commanding officer that is also the sexual love interest was very uncomfortable, and we didn't think it was appropriate.”
This then upset LGBT activists who had, unbeknownst to the world outside their bubble, claimed Li Shang as a “bisexual icon.” Production’s attempts to conform to one moral crusade led to accusations of “erasure” by another.
Politics and pandemic
“Mulan” was finally ready for release in early 2020; by then other problems had emerged. It was revealed that some of the film’s landscape B-roll was shot in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where the government had infamously erected re-education camps for Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities to retaliate for terror attacks by Sunni separatists.
Western governments and assorted NGOs urged Disney to condemn China. While Disney didn’t fold, the Chinese found the company’s lukewarm defense insulting enough to instruct state media not to cover the movie’s domestic release.
The final and perhaps most devastating setback had to do with the film’s original premiere date: March 2020. While Disney did pull off the standard gala Hollywood screening, COVID and its attendant lockdowns squashed plans for a wide release.
By the time “Mulan” finally crept into multiplexes that July, Disney, eager to be rid of the problem, had done little to promote it.
Not woke? Go broke
Those who reviewed the movie largely seemed to do so through the ubiquitous lens of identity politics, which constrained their thoughts to the political context surrounding the production rather than the story itself.
Critic Joonatan Itkonen’s dismissive reaction was exemplary: “Mulan is a film best described as an ‘if only’ production. If only the script had the input from actual Chinese people.”
Never mind that Disney had originally sought an Asian director and boasted a cast and supporting crew that was nearly 100% ethnically Chinese — so very Chinese, in fact, that in 2019, lead actress Liu Yifei sparked controversy by condemning the pro-democracy riots in Hong Kong. Given the exacting, contradictory demands of the time, it should come as no surprise that “Mulan” also lost points for being too Chinese.
A secret success
In retrospect, I think its harshest critics owe “Mulan” a reappraisal, if not an out-and-out apology.
I watched the movie with my family this week and found myself pleasantly surprised by how good it was. It was visually and audibly stunning, with a physicality to its performances that gracefully incorporates elements of Chinese kung fu film tradition.
The creators tone down the animated film’s goofiness in order to make something more serious — which in fact brings the story closer to its epic source material, "The Ballad of Hua Mulan."
Particularly impressive was the film’s emphasis on honor, virtue, and a specifically Chinese concept of filial piety. Mulan risks death not for her own “self-realization” (an all-too-common motivation for contemporary heroines) but rather to protect both her father and the father of her nation: the emperor.
When she reveals her true identity to the men in her unit, they reject her. A shape-shifting witch-warrior on the enemy side (a creative reimagining of the hawk from the animated film) offers her solidarity in this moment of cold exile.
Mulan rejects her, saying, “I know my place, and it is my duty to fight for the kingdom and protect the emperor.” The sword she carries, stolen from her father, is emblazoned with three Chinese characters: 忠、勇、真 (loyal, brave, and true).
After she saves the emperor, he gives her a new sword, one emblazoned with an additional virtue: filial piety (孝).
This Mulan is not the liberal feminist icon she’s been made out to be; she’s more Joan of Arc than Captain Marvel. What drives her is love, not ambition.
And this love dares to encompass her nation as well as her family. Americans haven’t seen a film so rich in unvarnished national pride since "The Patriot" (2000). “Mulan” left me yearning that we might one day again employ the vast resources of Hollywood to enshrine our own founding myths. I’m inspired by the possibility.
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