N.Y. taxpayers to spend up to $2.5 million defending Cuomo's administration in the nursing home deaths investigation
The administration of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will spend as much as $2.5 million on legal defense as it is investigated by federal authorities for allegedly covering up the number of deaths in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic, the embattled governor confirmed Wednesday afternoon. ... [+]
new walk-in pop-up vaccination sites for New York City Bodega, grocery store and supermarket workers amid the coronavirus disease pandemic in the Harlem section of Manhattan on April 23, 2021 in New York City. Cuomo, at an unrelated press conference at the Javits Center, said his legal defense in multiple ongoing investigations qualifies as a “state expense,” meaning it will be funded by taxpayers as opposed to his campaign.
In the case of the federal probe into his administration’s counting of nursing home deaths, this cost will come to as much as $2.5 million, according to a contract made public by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office. OpenBooksNY, a website run by the comptroller’s office that publicizes state contracts, shows a multimillion-dollar contract between the executive chamber and law firm Morvillo Abramowitz was “approved and filed” on April 27. says the law firm will charge up to $937.50 an hour for work from partner Elkan Abramowitz—a rate it notes is “significantly discounted” from his standard hourly rate.
Other attorneys defending the Cuomo administration had their rates severed 15% as part of the contract, according to theWhen asked if his campaign or personal expenses will be used to cover legal bills, Cuomo told reporters, “not at this time.” The federal probe is looking into whether the Cuomo administration purposefully withheld the true number of coronavirus-linked nursing home deaths in New York.
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