James Comer Requests DOJ Prosecute Andrew Cuomo For Allegedly Lying To Congress

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky on Monday afternoon referred current New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal prosecution.

Comer said the former governor “knowingly and willfully made false statements to Congress” regarding his involvement in a state government report that underreported the number of deaths in New York nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Comer’s recommendation that Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecute Cuomo for “lying to Congress” follows the Biden DOJ’s decision to ignore a previous referral from House Republicans in October 2024.

Cuomo testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in September and gave closed-door testimony to the subcommittee in June regarding his administration’s controversial policies that enabled thousands of positive COVID-19 patients to be admitted to nursing home facilities in the state.

House Republicans have accused Cuomo of deliberately seeking to avoid accountability by allegedly lying to Congress about his involvement in a state government report that undercounted nursing home deaths. Comer, in a Monday press release, alleged the former governor’s testimony to Congress about his handling of the nursing home crisis and ensuing coverup were “demonstrably false.”

“Andrew Cuomo is a man with a history of corruption and deceit, now caught red-handed lying to Congress during the Select Subcommittee’s investigation into the COVID-19 nursing home tragedy in New York,” Comer said. “This wasn’t a slip-up — it was a calculated cover-up by a man seeking to shield himself from responsibility for the devastating loss of life in New York’s nursing homes.”