Exclusive | Nursing-home kin rip Cuomo COVID lawsuit dismissal: He should be in prison

Former Gov.Andrew Cuomo all but got away with murder this week when a federal judge tossed a lawsuit blaming his administration for thousands of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, disgusted relatives told The Post.Patricia Biondi, one of eight plaintiffs in the $10 million wrongful-death suit, called Manhattan federal Judge Katherine Polk Failla’s Monday decision to dismiss the case over lack of evidence a “bad joke,” adding Cuomo – the frontrunner in NYC’s mayoral race — “mismanaged the whole COVID crisis” as governor.“He’s just walking away scot free, and he has the nerve to run for office again?” said Biondi, 72, of Wappingers Falls, NY, whose husband of over 30 years, Michael, 77, died of the bug in November 2020 — just a month after checking into a Mohegan Lake nursing home for physical therapy.“Cuomo should be in prison – not running for office,” she said.

“I think what he did was horrendous.”“He’s a real piece of work,” added Biondi, who said neither she nor her two daughters and four granddaughters got to say goodbye to Michael because of strict pandemic restrictions.Cuomo wound up striking a $5.1 million book deal to write a memoir about leading the state during the pandemic.Stacie Druckman, 52, said she holds Cuomo and his administration responsible for the April 2020 death of her 73-year-old father Arthur Druckman at a Bronx nursing home.

Cuomo, she said, “shouldn’t be allowed to run” for mayor.“People are forgetting what happened, but some people like me aren’t,” she said.Both Biondi and Druckman said they want to appeal the judge’s decision, but Biondi conceded it would be a “longshot” to find a judge in New York who’d rule against Cuomo.Their lawyer Joseph Ciaccio did not return messages, but previously told Law 360 “we will continue to explore all options.”The Cuomo administration issued a controversial directive on March 25, 2020 forcing New York nursing homes to take in COVID-19 pati...