The United States Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation against Andrew Cuomo, who is emerging as a candidate of the Democratic Party to the Mayor’s Office of New York, after the Republicans They will accuse him of lying to Congress about his performance during the pandemic, When he was governor, American media reported.
The investigation was known shortly after Donald Trump’s government will raise an accusation of the Prosecutor’s Office against the current mayor of the city, also the Democrat Eric Adams, who has promised to comply with the orders of the federal government in the field of immigration policy.
These movements of the Trump and Adams administration unleashed suspicions that It could be an exchange of favors.
The US Prosecutor’s Office in Washington initiated the investigation against Cuomo approximately one month ago, he reported on May 20 The New York Timesciting two anonymous sources familiar with the case.
Republican congressmen have pressed for the Department of Justice to investigate whether the former New York governor lied to Congress about the Covid-19 deaths in elderly residences During pandemia.
Cuomo announced in March his candidacy for mayor, but to reach the November elections he must overcome the primary party in June.