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As Crisis for Cuomo Deepens, His Emergency Powers Are Repealed

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 3/8/21

In a move widely perceived as a reaction to a loss in confidence in Governor Cuomo in the wake of serious questions about the transfer of patients treated for the coronavirus back to their nursing homes a year ago and allegations that he sexually harassed two female subordinates as well as a woman at a wedding, state legislators voted March 5 to repeal the emergency powers he was given at the start of the pandemic.

That vote, which legislative leaders had called for three days earlier, occurred less than 24 hours after the crisis deepened for the Governor when The New York Times reported that several members of his administration, including his top aide, last June altered a state Health Department report while deleting its explosive finding that more than 9,000 state nursing-home patients had died of the coronavirus—far more than he had disclosed to that point.

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