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‘It looked like murder’: Families of nursing home victims demand Cuomo probe

New Yorkers who lost loved ones to COVID-19 in nursing homes blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s attempts to cover up the real death toll — saying he needs to be investigated for “killing” their family members. 

“Nothing is going to bring my parents back but we want to know why, because to us, looking at it, it just looked like murder — it looks like you were a serial killer, there are thousands of seniors dead,” said Donna Johnson, who lost both of her parents to COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic last year after they contracted the virus at senior care facilities. 

“He killed a lot of people, I mean people don’t have grandmas and grandpas and moms and dads anymore because of one man’s decision.” 

Last March, Cuomo’s administration issued a controversial directive ordering nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients and the virus soon spread like wildfire in the congregate care settings. At least 15,000 seniors were killed, almost twice the amount previously reported by the state. 

Micky and Dee Newman 

Last week, The Post exclusively revealed an audio recording of the governor’s secretary, Melissa DeRosa, admitting the administration tried to cover up the number of deaths because they feared the data could “be used against us” by the Justice Department.

Johnson, 59, said her father, Michael “Micky” Newman, a retired FDNY firefighter, was only at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center to recover after a hospital visit but he never made it out alive. She wants answers from Cuomo and said he should “resign.”

“I just want the truth, why’d you do it? What was in his mind to do this?” Johnson told The Post. 

“It’s too late for an apology.” 

Wendy Naborre, whose mother, Theresa DeVaul, contracted COVID-19 and died at the Apex Rehabilitation and Healthcare home in Huntington, LI, is incensed thinking about how Cuomo talked about his own mother, Matilda Cuomo, during his daily briefings. 

“To hear Governor Cuomo talk about his mother and how careful he was with her and how he kept her safe from everything, I don’t want to hear how well you’re protecting her because you’re not protecting everyone else’s mother and father,” Naborre, 49, told The Post. 

Wendy Naborre holds a photo her mother Theresa Devaul. Dennis A. Clark

“There needs to be a federal investigation… if there’s evidence of him covering it up he absolutely should step down.” 

Ellen Cariddi, whose 85-year-old mother Evelyn Gengenbach died alone at a hospital after catching the virus at Huntington Hills Center for Health and Rehabilitation, thought the facility was one of the “safest” places for her to be after a recent bout of pneumonia. 

“We’re coming up on a year and we’re just now reliving the days that led to that executive order and that turmoil that’s changed our lives forever,” Cariddi, 57, said by phone, calling her mother’s loss her “darkest days.” 

Evelyn Gengenbach, bottom left, with her four daughters.

“These are lives, these are mothers and fathers and aunts and uncles and grandparents and they did die alone and he needs to be held accountable whatever shape or form that is appropriate. He can’t keep passing the buck.” 

Cuomo’s office didn’t return a request for comment.