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Ethics professor who advises Cuomo caught scrubbing nursing home deaths from report by health officials

Linda Lacewell is superintendent of New York state’s Department of Financial Services. Her bio notes that she also teaches ethics as an adjunct law professor at New York University.

Maybe not for much longer.

The New York Times identifies Lacewell among the “most senior aides” to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who rewrote a report by state health officials to hide the true number of deaths in nursing homes – more than 9,000 – following the Democrat’s executive order on COVID-19 early in the pandemic.

The governor had ordered nursing homes to accept hospital patients who tested positive for the novel coronavirus. New York was already hiding a crucial population from the death count: “residents who had been transferred to hospitals and died there, effectively cloaking how many nursing home residents had died of Covid-19.”

After this and the Bruce Hay incidents I'm beginning to suspect that these ethics and decision making professors may be a bit oversold.