The once-epicenter of Covid served as the stage Thursday for New York City mayoral candidate Adrienne Adams to tear into opponent Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic response as governor. Adams, the New York City Council speaker,

The DOJ launched an investigation into Cuomo alleging the New York mayoral candidate lied in a congressional hearing about decisions he made during the pandemic.

The disclosure that NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo is the subject of a federal investigation into COVID nursing home deaths​ is roiling the political world.

In a deeply personal speech, Ms. Adams, who is running for mayor, will speak about her father’s death from Covid in 2020. She says that as governor, Mr. Cuomo “failed him.”

Litman warned that the investigation is close to the New York City mayoral race, in an interview on Wednesday.

Former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched his first television ad in the 2025 New York City mayoral race on Monday, spotlighting the very crisis that helped bring down his political career.

Those voters, whose local food cooperative once descended into controversy over the origin of hummus, also ranked the decisively non-lefty Cuomo third among nine Democratic mayora

A primary win for Cuomo would mark a dramatic political comeback, just four years after he resigned as governor in 2021.