The governor-turned mayoral candidate ran against Trump’s pick for D.C. federal prosecutor in the 2006 election for New York attorney general.

The inquiry follows a House GOP referral that alleges Cuomo lied when testifying before Congress about his handling of the COVID pandemic.

ALBANY — The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation of Andrew M. Cuomo that is focused on his public statements and actions during the coronavirus pandemic, including allegations that the former governor and his top aides manipulated fatality data in 2020 to shift blame from a controversial directive that his critics have said caused thousands of nursing home deaths.

Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, first referred Cuomo to the DOJ in October before re-upping his request in April, after Trump had taken office. That followed Cuomo’s testimony to a subcommittee that was investigating New York’s handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

The disclosure that NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo is the subject of a federal investigation into COVID nursing home deaths​ is roiling the political world.

With just weeks to go until New York City’s mayoral primary, one of the leading candidates, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, finds himself under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice

Former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched his first television ad in the 2025 New York City mayoral race on Monday, spotlighting the very crisis that helped bring down his political career.

Since announcing his bid for City Hall nearly three months ago, frontrunner Andrew Cuomo has only attended mayoral forums where candidates are quizzed by moderators one-at-a-time — a key component