Andrew Cuomo is having a great week courtesy of his well-paid attorneys.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is closing its investigation into the former New York Governor’s handling of nursing home COVID-19 deaths without bringing charges against him, according to Cuomo’s attorney.
“I was contacted today by the head of the Elder Care Unit from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office who informed me they have closed its investigation involving the Executive Chamber and nursing homes,” Elkan Abramowitz, a former federal prosecutor who had been hired to represent Cuomo, said Monday. “I was told that after a thorough investigation — as we have said all along — there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken.”
Cuomo will also get a pass on that ‘forcible touching’ incident.
Three days before the former governor was set to appear in court, Albany County District Attorney David Soares asked a judge to dismiss a criminal complaint that the county sheriff filed in October.
In a letter to the judge, Soares said “statutory elements of New York law make this case impossible to prove.” He added that multiple government inquiries into Cuomo’s conduct had created “technical and procedural hurdles” regarding prosecutors’ obligations to disclose evidence to the defense, according to the AP.
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