DiNapoli ripped for not probing Cuomo COVID-19 nursing home scandal

Nursing home advocates and Assemblyman Ron Kim ripped into state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for “slow walking” a request to initiate a probe into Gov. Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.

The group Voices for Seniors sent a March 19 letter to DiNapoli urging him to make a referral to state Attorney General Letitia James to conduct a joint probe into Cuomo’s undercounting of COVID-19 nursing home deaths — as well as the state Health Department’s order forcing nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients, and the law shielding medical facilities from malpractice suits during the pandemic. “Where is Tom DiNapoli? Silence is consent,” said Voices for Seniors co-founder Vivian Zayas, whose mom, Ana Martinez, died from COVID-19 that she contracted while in a Long Island nursing home last year.