DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—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 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........

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