Throughout the pandemic, we have been warning readers to look beyond the laudatory media coverage of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to see how abysmally he has actually been handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Last month, we learned that the mass death he inflicted on his state’s nursing homes was much worse than we thought. Now, we learn that this was no accident.

In a stunning admission, a top aide to Cuomo revealed that his administration intentionally covered up the true extent of the nursing home deaths because it was worried that the information would be used against it by federal prosecutors.