A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit over COVID deaths in nursing homes filed against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The judge today ruled to dismiss this case just as the DOJ – which launched three separate probes – and the Manhattan district attorney did previously,” a Cuomo rep said.

Other families who lost loved ones joined the lawsuit, which accused Cuomo and his administration of causing more deaths when a March 2020 directive initially barred nursing homes from refusing to accept patients who were no longer sick enough to require hospitalization. More than 15,000 people died in New York nursing homes during the pandemic.

The judge today ruled to dismiss this case just as the DOJ - which launched three separate probes - and the Manhattan district attorney did previously,” said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi. “Once again,

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging the Cuomo administration undercounted the COVID-19 death toll in nursing homes, according to the former governor's lawyer.

The record shows that Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic response increased New Yorkers’ mortality rates, particularly among nursing home residents.

Daniel Arbeeny of Brooklyn had sued Cuomo after his father, Norman, died while a resident of the Cobble Hill Health Center in April 2020.

Malatras was the only former member of Cuomo’s office who confirmed to the COVID committee that Cuomo had “edited” a notorious New York Department of Health report and deflated the true nursing home death count due to the mandate.

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his deputies over a decision to require nursing homes to accept Covid-positive residents at the height of the pandemic. Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall granted a motion to dismiss filed by Cuomo’s lawyers in the U.