FBI reportedly investigating Cuomo role in shielding donors from Covid liability

• Health executives granted immunity in state budget last spring
• Health lobby group had donated $2m to New York governor

Allegations that the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, improperly used the power of his office to shield political donors from Covid-19 lawsuits have reportedly become the subject of an FBI investigation.

Federal investigators are said to be looking into how a provision granting immunity to hospital and nursing home executives became a late addition to the state's budget before it was passed last spring.