Cuomo-gate: a Nixonian scandal is engulfing New York | David Sirota

Amid demands for Cuomo to resign, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the facts of what happened

The biggest political scandal in America right now is playing out in New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo is in a lot of trouble - and rightly so. The Democratic governor did not merely wildly mismanage his state's response to the Covid emergency, while netting himself a lucrative book deal and an Emmy. He did something worse.

In the middle of a public health emergency, he used his office to help one of his largest political donors shield itself from legal consequences as 15,000 nursing home residents died from Covid-19 - and then he and his administration underreported that death toll, helping the same donor.