​Janice Dean responds to Chris Cuomo's 'Fox weather b***h' attack — says action will be coming against Cuomo 'crime family'​



Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean responded to the Cuomo family's alleged attacks against her on Monday by promising to pursue legal action in return.

What are the details?

Dean told BlazeTV host Glenn Beck that she would be filing a Freedom of Information Law request to find out if former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration had talked about her or her family during his tenure.

The on-air personality — who lost her mother- and father-in-law to COVID-19 last year — became a vocal critic of the former governor and specifically his deadly policy forcing nursing homes to accept infected patients who had been discharged from the hospital.

Reports surfaced last week that her outspoken criticism of the governor ruffled some feathers within his inner circle and prompted his brother, disgraced former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, to see if he could help take care of the problem.

A source allegedly told the New York Post that Chris Cuomo asked in a text to a staffer in his brother's administration how he could go after “this Fox weather bitch……Any help painting her as a far right crazy?”

What else?

During Monday's interview with Beck, Dean said she wasn't surprised by the news, given what she had been told about the Cuomos.

She said that early on in the pandemic when she first started speaking out against the former governor, several people who knew the family warned her to tread carefully.

"They told me, 'Watch your back: These people are vindictive. They will come after you. They will do whatever they have to do to silence you,'" Dean recalled.

"So I'm not surprised that this information is coming out, but what I am doing is filing what they call a FOIL request ... here in New York to see if I can find any paperwork, official documentation from the Cuomo administration and Chris Cuomo talking about myself or my family," Dean said.

She also said she knew a few people who have been "tallying up all the potential crimes" that the Cuomo family has committed and indicated that some of their actions "might even fall under the [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] RICO act" — a law used in the 1980s in New York to bring down Mafia bosses.

"This is like an organized crime family, and I'm not joking about this," she added.

Anything else?

Dean also told Beck she believes Andrew Cuomo could potentially face jail time over his actions as governor.

"Last spring we found out our governor forced 9,000 COVID-infected patients to go into nursing homes, including my husband's parents, and so I've kind of been on a mission to find out why, and then find out also why he hid those numbers," she said.

"We now know the timeline corresponded with his $5.2 million book celebrating himself, saying he was like the best leader in the middle of a pandemic," she noted, later charging Cuomo with "covering up nursing home deaths to benefit himself and his family."

Audio: NY medical director sounded the alarm to Mark Levin about Gov. Cuomo's deadly nursing home policy in March, but was ignored



A medical director in New Rochelle, New York, attempted to sound the alarm about the dangerous consequences of New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deadly nursing home policy in late March, but was ignored by the governor's office.

Dr. Elaine Healy, vice president of medical affairs and medical director for the United Hebrew retirement community, called into BlazeTV host Mark Levin's radio program on March 26 — the day after Cuomo's nursing home policy was issued — desperate to get word out about the hazardous measure.

The policy forced nursing homes in the state to accept coronavirus-positive patients who had been discharged from the hospital and is estimated to have directly led to the deaths of thousands of elderly New Yorkers. Amazingly, it remained in place for more than a month, despite it being common knowledge even at the point that nursing home patients were among the highest-risk individuals suffering from the pandemic.

On March 26, Healy told Levin, "I want to bring to your attention and to the listeners' attention what is about to happen in New York with respect to nursing homes. The governor has ordered that all nursing homes must accept COVID-positive patients that are actually potentially still infectious into their facilities and this will put our residents, our long-term care population, at risk."

"Wait, wait, wait," Levin responded, cutting in. "Are you pulling my leg? Seriously. Why would you send somebody who has this virus into a population that can kill people?"

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"I'm looking at a directive from Andrew Cuomo and [New York Health Commissioner] Howard Zucker, dated March 25, that is ordering nursing homes ... it says that nursing homes 'must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals' ... they are deemed appropriate to go into the nursing homes from the hospitals and we cannot discriminate based on the presence of COVID," Healy continued.

She went on to claim there had been "no coordination on the ground level" from the governor's office to local health officials, but rather the governor was managing the crisis through edicts and orders.

"You can't get through to anybody down here," she said. "You can't talk to anybody, there's nobody coordinating the response at this level."

Healy passed on the information to her overarching group, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, which issued a statement condemning the action the same day. That statement was covered in the Wall Street Journal.

"Admitting patients with suspected or documented Covid-19 infection represents a clear and present danger to all of the residents of a nursing home," the group said.

Yet Cuomo and the state Department of Health either refused the advice or ignored it and thousands of elderly New Yorkers died as a result.

Did the 'Cuomosexual' media enable Gov. Andrew Cuomo?



Two more women came forward over the weekend with allegations of sexual misconduct against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Although Cuomo issued a public apology for making people uncomfortable, he said he "never touched anyone inappropriately." Now Democrats are calling for the resignation of the once beloved governor.

Steven Crowder told his audience Monday that he does not believe Cuomo is a "serial rapist." However, he does believe Cuomo should be held accountable for the grossly underreported number of COVID-19 deaths that occurred in New York nursing homes.

Crowder reminded his audience of when Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Ellen Degeneres self-identified as "Cuomosexuals" and members of the mainstream media praised Gov. Cuomo as "one of the heroes on the front lines [of COVID]."

"Do not let the left get away with this," Crowder said. "This was their guy ... the example of how states should handle COVID."

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Mayor de Blasio demands independent investigation into 'really disturbing' sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Cuomo



Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an independent investigation into the sexual harassment allegations brought against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo by a former aide.

Lindsey Boylan served as deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser in the Cuomo administration from March 2015 until October 2018. In December, Boylan accused Cuomo of sexually harassing her "for years," adding that he abused his power.

On Tuesday, Boylan elaborated on her claims against Cuomo in a post on Medium.

"Governor Andrew Cuomo has created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not only condoned but expected," Boylan wrote. "His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right. He used intimidation to silence his critics. And if you dared to speak up, you would face consequences."

Boylan claimed that Cuomo asked his aides to play strip poker with him during a taxpayer-funded plane trip in 2017, inappropriately touched her, and kissed her on the lips without her consent at his New York City office.

De Blasio was asked Thursday morning about the sexual harassment accusations against the New York governor.

"Look, these allegations are really disturbing," de Blasio responded. "Let's be clear about that — they're really disturbing."

"We've gotta take this seriously," he continued. "When a woman comes forward with this kind of very specific allegation, they have to be taken seriously. We need a full and independent investigation. I want to emphasize the word independent."

De Blasio stressed that the investigation must be conducted "by some individual or entity that is not compromised, is not something that is dominated by the governor's office, but an independent investigation."

"This is just unacceptable. This kind of behavior, if it's true, is unacceptable in any public servant, in anybody," de Blasio said. "So we gotta get the truth about this."

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Cuomo has denied the allegations. The governor's office released a statement on Wednesday, challenging Boylan's plane allegations.

"As we said before, Ms. Boylan's claims of inappropriate behavior are quite simply false," Cuomo's office said.

"In Ms. Boylan's latest blog post, she opens up with a story about a plane trip in October 2017 — the manifests of all flights from October 2017 can be found below — there was no flight where Lindsey was alone with the Governor, a single press aide, and a NYS Trooper," the statement reads.

Last week, de Blasio called for a blue-ribbon panel to investigate Cuomo's handling of nursing homes and long-term care facilities during the coronavirus pandemic and accusations that his administration intentionally underreported nursing home deaths.

"This whole thing has to be examined. We need the full truth," the mayor said last week.

"It's extraordinarily troubling on a human level because we don't even know what it would've meant — how many lives might've been saved if things had been done differently," de Blasio said of Cuomo's leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We need a full investigation, independent investigation of what happened with the nursing homes, what happened with the thousands of people who died," de Blasio said on Thursday's press briefing.

"Their families have not gotten answers," he added. "We don't understand if truth was told or not. We know information was not given on a timely basis, we know mistakes were made, we know that we have not had an accounting that tells us how to saves lives going forward, and change the approach to nursing homes."

The FBI and the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's office have launched investigations into the nursing home scandal.

There is no love lost between Cuomo and de Blasio, and it was evident during an MSNBC interview last week. De Blasio blasted Cuomo as a "bully."

"The threats, the belittling, the demand that someone change their statement right that moment — many, many times I've heard that and I know a lot of other people in the state that have heard that," de Blasio said of Cuomo.

Cuomo says, ‘You can’t allow inaccurate information to go unanswered.’ He’s currently under investigation for doing just that.



New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who is currently under investigation for underreporting coronavirus-related nursing home deaths in his state — lectured his critics on Monday by saying, "You can't allow inaccurate information to go unanswered."

The governor's peculiar choice of words may raise eyebrows, given the fact that he is currently being probed by federal agents for essentially doing just that: allowing inaccurate information to go on unamended and unacknowledged.

For months — as allegations mounted against the governor suggesting that he was misrepresenting the death toll at nursing home facilities — he demurred, pointed fingers at his opponents, and downright rejected the claims.

What did he say?

"I want to set the record straight on nursing homes," the governor said at the press conference Monday morning, during which he only went so far as acknowledging his office "created a void by not producing enough public information fast enough," before lashing out at his political opponents.

Instead of taking responsibility for his implementation of a deadly policy that likely led to the deaths of thousands of elderly New Yorkers and for obscuring data to make the situation look less horrific, he blamed the "toxic political environment" in America for his newfound infamy.

"Conspiracy theories and politics and rumors fill[ed] the void," Cuomo alleged, then adding: "You can't allow inaccurate information to go unanswered. Twitter [and] bogus reports become a reality at one point."

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What's the background?

Last month, after reviewing data from the governor's office and the state's health department, New York state Democratic Attorney General Letitia James accused the governor of undercounting the number of coronavirus-related deaths at nursing homes in the state by as much as 50%.

James concluded the state was only counting deaths that occurred at actual nursing home facilities in its tabulation, rather than including deaths which occurred at hospitals after residents were transferred there to receive additional medical care.

That report set off a groundswell of criticism against the governor, including scrutiny from left-leaning media outlets that had previously celebrated his leadership bravado and supposedly awe-inspiring handling of the pandemic in months past.

Just over a week later, Cuomo' secretary Melissa DeRosa appeared to acknowledge what many had already surmised to be true: that the governor's office had intentionally obscured the death count to cover up the consequences of the administration's fatal mistake. Early on in the pandemic, the Cuomo administration had implemented an ill-advised policy that forced nursing homes to accept coronavirus-infected patients discharged from the hospital.

Around the same time as DeRosa's admission, a bombshell report by the Associated Press came out alleging that thousands more virus-infected patients were sent back to nursing homes than previously reported.

Chris Cuomo gets brutalized on social media for tweet about the crisis in Texas



CNN's Chris Cuomo was the latest recipient of Twitter's furious wrath after he wondered aloud if a Texas mayor should have resigned his office over comments about the state's energy crisis.

"Resign or apologize and learn and become a better leader?" said Cuomo in response to the story that incensed so many.

Tim Boyd wrote a Facebook post that excoriated Texans who were angry that the power grid had failed during a frigid winter storm. He resigned over the backlash that excoriated him for being insensitive to the plight of his fellow Texans.

Cuomo saw similar opprobrium over the worsening scandal engulfing his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

"I don't disagree, but considering the trouble your brother is in right now, should you really be making a tweet like this?," one commenter responded.

The governor was heavily criticized for his order that sent coronavirus patients to be cared for at nursing homes in New York during the height of the pandemic spike in his state. Thousands would contract the virus and die as a consequence but Cuomo praised his administration's pandemic response and published a book about it.

Worse still, an aide to the governor admitted that they sought to hide nursing home data in fear that they would be investigated by the Department of Justice. Cuomo has since faced calls for his resignation over the damaging scandal.

"Your brothers policy killed TONS of people and you made light of it on CNN all last year," responded one detractor to the CNN host's tweet.

"Wait until Chris hears about the Governor of New York," said another.

"How many elderly New Yorkers died because of the decisions of your brother. Have you demanded his resignation?" asked another user.

"Have your brother step down first, you tone-deaf moron," said another critic.

On Wednesday the Cuomo administration confirmed that they were being investigated by the Department of Justice over the scandal.

Here's more on the Cuomo nursing home scandal:

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Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data after Trump pressured them on Twitter



An aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted that they hid nursing home data on coronavirus infections after former President Donald Trump began pressuring them on Twitter.

Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa apologized to state Democratic leaders about the cover-up in a video conference call, according to a two hour recording reviewed by the New York Post.

DeRosa also appeared to pass the blame onto Trump by claiming that they were scared by his tweets.

"[R]ight around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football," she said on the recording.

"He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes," DeRosa continued. "He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer."

"And basically, we froze," she said.

DeRosa said that Trump directing the Department of Justice to look into the matter forced them to hide the numbers.

"Because then we were in a position where we weren't sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren't sure if there was going to be an investigation," she added.

DeRosa apologized, not to the families of the thousands of people who died of coronavirus in nursing homes, but to the state's Democrats for the political inconvenience of their cover-up.

"So we do apologize," she said. "I do understand the position that you were put in. I know that it is not fair. It was not our intention to put you in that political position with the Republicans."

A spokesperson for Cuomo's office released a statement about the report:

We explained that the Trump administration was in the midst of a politically motivated effort to blame democratic states for COVID deaths and that we were cooperating with Federal document productions and that was the priority and now that it is over we can address the state legislature.

That said, we were working simultaneously to complete the audit of information they were asking for.

The bombshell dropped on the same day as a damaging report by the Associated Press that documented how the New York state health department underreported the true numbers of coronavirus patients sent to nursing homes under Cuomo's order.

Here's more about the stunning admission from DeRosa:

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'Lawmakers, grow a spine': Janice Dean calls for legal action against Gov. Cuomo amid nursing home scandal



New York state Democratic Attorney General Letitia James recently reported that the state's coronavirus nursing home deaths could have been undercounted by as much as 50%. In response, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) said, "But who cares — 33 [percent], 29 [percent] — died in the hospital, died in a nursing home. They died."

Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean, who lost both of her in-laws to COVID-19 in a New York state nursing home, joined "The Glenn Beck Radio Program" to discuss how the mainstream media is finally starting to catch wind that Gov. Cuomo may not have handled the pandemic perfectly.

"It's been 10 months that I've been covering this governor, and he continues to really surprise me with his arrogance, his narcissism, his stupidity," Janice said of Gov. Cuomo.

Janice lambasted the governor's COVID response, in particular his March 25 directive to put coronavirus-infected elderly patients into the state's nursing homes to free up hospital beds. According to the Associated Press, Gov. Cuomo's mandate led to more than 4,500 COVID-positive patients living in what Gov. Cuomo called "the optimum feeding ground for this virus."

"I have been shouting from the mountaintops for 10 months ... talking about Cuomo and the mandate to put COVID-positive patients in a nursing home, and the fact that this governor continues to hide the numbers," Janice stated. "The Justice Department had an investigation into [Cuomo] and he didn't give any information, Glenn. I got it from a top source with the Justice Department, the top investigatory unit in the nation, and he wasn't giving them information. So [AG James] took it upon herself to investigate him, and came up with the fact that the numbers have been skewed. He's been basically covering them up for many months now, and they're at least 50% higher than they've officially been reporting."

Janice also noted an article in the New York Times that reported at least nine high-level health department officials have resigned in recent months over disrespectful treatment form the governor. Gov. Cuomo responded to the criticism by borrowing a line from Mike Tyson: "Everybody has a plan until I punch them in the face."

"[Cuomo was] basically saying, 'I don't need anybody. I know who I rely on ... hospital lobbyists'," Janice explained.

"Top donors, not scientists ... hospital lobbyists, that give [Cuomo] millions of dollars, are whispering in his ear about the nursing home issue and the vaccine rollout. This is criminal ... it's criminal," she added. "We need to take his powers away. He has control over everything. They gave him superpowers, so no one can challenge him. And I've been saying to lawmakers, grow a spine. You have a lot of ammunition now against this governor. Go in, and take his powers away. We are a democracy, not a monarchy."

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CNN finally wakes up and admits Cuomo's failures, says pandemic handling was 'less stellar than it seemed'



CNN's Chris Cillizza must have been red-pilled this week because he appears to have awoken from his dream state to suddenly realize that New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's leadership during the coronavirus pandemic "may have been less stellar than it seemed."

What happened?

Despite months of fawning over the governor, the left-leaning outlet's editor-at-large finally delivered a stunning repudiation of Cuomo's performance on Thursday, admitting that "all the hype" surrounding his handling of the pandemic "obscured a troubling reality."

The troubling reality he referred to is that under Cuomo's leadership, the state of New York failed to protect its most vulnerable residents from the virus and in fact may have actively endangered them through a deadly and misguided policy that forced nursing home facilities in the state to accept patients who had tested positive for the virus but had been discharged from the hospital. The policy remained in place for nearly two months and is estimated to have resulted in thousands of deaths.

Even worse, the administration and Cuomo himself refused to take responsibility, attempting to bury the egregious mistake from public view and instead shift blame to then-President Trump and the Republican Party.

The tipping point for Cillizza was the release of a scathing new report from New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James that revealed the Cuomo administration had undercounted COVID-19 nursing home deaths by 50%.

The report determined that the state Department of Health misrepresented the dire situation by only reporting deaths that occurred at actual nursing home facilities, leaving out deaths that occurred at hospitals after sick residents were transferred there to receive more care.

Why does it matter?

It is good for Cillizza to take notice and inform his readers, however, the fact of the matter is that Cuomo's failed leadership has been well-documented in conservative circles for months. While Cuomo was sending in tapes of his daily briefings to be recognized by the Emmys and liberals were fawning over the governor's "New York Tough" public persona, conservative media outlets were raising the alarm about his missteps.

Besides, it had been known for months that the Cuomo administration — while under the spotlight for its suspect nursing home practices — was curiously only counting in-facility deaths toward its nursing home total, as opposed to including hospital deaths like most states.

in August, the Associated Press covered the action, slamming the administration for keeping the true death count "cloaked in secrecy." Included in the article is a quote from state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, a Democrat, who during a legislative session called out New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker for what seemed obvious to most — the administration was purposefully obscuring the death toll.

"That's a problem, bro," he said. "It seems, sir, that in this case you are choosing to define it differently so that you can look better."

Anything else?

In response to the attorney general's report, Zucker defended the administration's actions in a statement essentially arguing, "We're not undercounting; we're just counting differently."

"The OAG's report is only referring to the count of people who were in nursing homes but transferred to hospitals and later died," Zucker said. "The OAG suggests that all should be counted as nursing home deaths and not hospital deaths even though they died in hospitals. That does not in any way change the total count of deaths but is instead a question of allocating the number of deaths between hospitals and nursing homes."

Cillizza made note of Zucker's response and rounded out his report by saying, "There's much we still don't know. But here's something we do know: Should James' report be borne out, it would occasion a serious reexamination of Cuomo's performance during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic."

We look forward to it.

NY attorney general reveals Cuomo administration undercounted COVID-19 nursing home deaths by 50%



New York state Democratic Attorney General Letitia James accused the Cuomo administration of severely undercounting the number of coronavirus-related deaths at nursing homes in the state by as much as 50% in a scathing new report released Thursday.

What are the details?

In the report, James determined much of the misrepresentation was due to the state counting only deaths that occurred at the actual nursing home facilities rather than including deaths that occurred at a hospital after a resident was transferred there to receive more medical care.

During the investigation, which surveyed 62 nursing homes across the state, James' office reportedly found "consistent discrepancies between deaths reported to the attorney general's investigators and those officially released by the Health Department," the New York Times noted in its coverage of the matter.

The newspaper pointed to a specific instance in which an unnamed facility reported 11 confirmed and presumed deaths to the Health Department only for the attorney general's office to later find that 40 deaths had taken place, including 27 at the home and 13 in hospitals.

"Preliminary data obtained by [the Office of Attorney General] suggests that many nursing home residents died from Covid-19 in hospitals after being transferred from their nursing homes, which is not reflected in [Department of Health's] published total nursing home death data," investigators said in the report.

The report also determined that a number of nursing homes "failed to comply with critical infection control policies," such as not isolating residents who had tested positive or preemptively screening employees for infections.

"In conclusion, this preliminary data for the 62 facilities and time periods noted above suggests that COVID-19 resident deaths associated with nursing homes in New York state appear to be undercounted by DOH by approximately 50 percent," the report stated.

Why does it matter?

The news is sure to intensify scrutiny around Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of the pandemic, especially since the governor has been accused specifically of mismanaging the health crisis at nursing home facilities and directly causing thousands of preventable deaths among the state's vulnerable elderly population.

Last March, during the initial stages of the outbreak, Cuomo issued a directive forcing nursing home facilities to accept patients who had tested positive for the virus and been discharged from the hospital. As death tolls rose in such facilities, the deadly policy became the subject of harsh criticism, yet the Cuomo administration attempted to hide that it ever existed and waited until May to officially rescind it.

In the aftermath, Cuomo has repeatedly dodged responsibility for endangering elderly New Yorkers, instead attempting to shift blame to then-President Donald Trump and Republicans.