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House Republican asks Trump DOJ to criminally prosecute ex-New York Gov Andrew Cuomo

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., referred former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for criminal prosecution.
Cuomo – the Democratic scion now considered the current frontrunner in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June – was first referred to the Biden Justice Department for criminal prosecution in October 2024. Former Rep. Brad Wenstrup, then-chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, said Cuomo made «multiple criminally false statements» to Congress about his handling of the 2020 COVID-19 nursing home death scandal.
In a new letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday, Comer said «to our knowledge, the Biden Administration ignored this referral despite clear facts and evidence.» He requested that Bondi review the referral and «take appropriate action.»
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a May 2020 news conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
«Andrew Cuomo is a man with a history of corruption and deceit, now caught red-handed lying to Congress during the Select Subcommittee’s investigation into the COVID-19 nursing home tragedy in New York,» Comer said in a statement Monday. «This wasn’t a slip-up – it was a calculated cover-up by a man seeking to shield himself from responsibility for the devastating loss of life in New York’s nursing homes. Let’s be clear: lying to Congress is a federal crime. Mr. Cuomo must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The House Oversight Committee is prepared to fully cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation into Andrew Cuomo’s actions and ensure he’s held to account.»
Reached for comment by Fox News Digital, Cuomo’s spokesman, Richard Azzopardi, dismissed Comer’s letter as «nothing more than a meritless press release that was nonsense last year and is even more so now.»
«As the DOJ constantly reminds people, this kind of transparent attempt at election interference and law-fare violates their own policies,» Azzopardi said. «Referrals like these – which have been also made against Planned Parenthood, Hillary Clinton and Anthony Fauci – don’t have to be resubmitted with a new administration, so the only point to doing this is politics.»

Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo arrives to attend a Sunday service at First Corinthian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on April 13, 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Cuomo administration issued a directive on March 25, 2020, mandating that nursing homes admit or re-admit potentially COVID-19 positive patients «while simultaneously prohibiting nursing homes from testing these patients before admission or re-admission,» Wenstrup wrote to former Attorney General Merrick Garland in October. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) issued a subsequent report on July 6, 2020, titled «Factors Associated with Nursing Home Infections and Fatalities in New York State During the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis.» The report alleged nursing home staff – not the March 25 directive – caused excess COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.
Comer said witness testimony and new documents revealed in the select subcommittee’s referral showed Cuomo «personally drafted and edited portions of this purportedly independent and peer-reviewed report.»
New York state Attorney General Letitia James said in a January 2021 investigative report of her own that the Cuomo administration may have undercounted the total number of nursing home deaths by as much as 50%

Photos of seniors who died during the COVID-19 pandemic in nursing homes are displayed as family members attend a memorial event on March 23, 2025, in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
The select subcommittee launched its investigation in May 2023. It issued a subpoena for Cuomo’s testimony in March 2024 after months of delays.
Cuomo sat for a transcribed interview on June 11, 2024. He later testified in front of the select subcommittee on Sept. 10, 2024.
Wenstrup noted that Cuomo claimed he was neither involved in the drafting nor the review of the July 6 report. Cuomo also testified that he did not have any discussions about the July 6 Report being peer-reviewed and that he did not know whether the July 6 report was reviewed by persons outside the NYSDOH. On all three accounts, Wenstrup said documents obtained by the select subcommittee demonstrate Cuomo’s statements to be false.
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It’s unclear if the Justice Department, now under Trump’s control, will pursue action against Cuomo. Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ on Tuesday for comment.
The DOJ motioned to dismiss an indictment brought under Biden against current New York City Mayor Eric Adams. A judge agreed to throw out the case with prejudice earlier this month. Adams is running as an independent in the mayoral primary.
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Brasil subastó cinco nuevos bloques petroleros en el Atlántico, a pocos días de la cumbre climática COP30

El gobierno de Brasil otorgó este miércoles los derechos de exploración de cinco bloques petroleros situados en aguas profundas del Atlántico, apenas dos días después de que la estatal Petrobras obtuviera licencia ambiental para iniciar perforaciones exploratorias marítimas cerca de la desembocadura del río Amazonas. La decisión reafirma el compromiso brasileño con la producción petrolera, una postura que genera controversia a menos de un mes de la conferencia climática COP30 de la ONU en la ciudad amazónica de Belém.
Las subastas, organizadas por la Agencia Nacional del Petróleo (ANP), se llevaron a cabo en Río de Janeiro y sumaron un total de 103,7 millones de reales (alrededor de 19,2 millones de dólares). De los siete bloques ofertados, cinco fueron adjudicados a grandes consorcios internacionales y nacionales, entre ellos la multinacional noruega Equinor y la china Cnooc. Estas áreas se localizan en el denominado presal, una reserva petrolera ubicada bajo una gruesa capa de sal en aguas ultraprofundas, donde se estima la existencia de yacimientos de alto potencial económico.
De las siete zonas ofrecidas en la subasta, las áreas de Jaspe, Citrino e Itaimbezinho fueron obtenidas respectivamente por un consorcio integrado por Petrobras (60%) y Equinor (40%), por Petrobras de forma individual, y por Equinor también de manera individual. Todas ellas se encuentran en la cuenca de Campos, frente al litoral del estado de Río de Janeiro.
En la cuenca de Santos, frente a las costas de San Pablo, la australiana Karoon se adjudicó el bloque de Esmeralda, mientras que un consorcio liderado por CNOOC (70%) y Sinopec (30%) obtuvo el área de Amatista. El resto de los bloques ofertados no atrajo el interés de las 15 empresas habilitadas para participar.
A diferencia de anteriores licitaciones, en esta ocasión no se otorgaron concesiones plenas, sino que las empresas ganadoras operarán en asociación con el Estado brasileño, que mantiene la propiedad de los derechos de exploración y producción. Para resultar seleccionadas, las compañías debieron ofrecer el mayor porcentaje de participación estatal en el excedente de producción de petróleo y gas.

La subasta formaba parte de una oferta inicial de 13 áreas, aunque las compañías solo mostraron interés por siete. De acuerdo con Artur Watt, director general de la ANP, “el mantenimiento de las actividades de exploración y producción es completamente compatible con la transición energética”. Watt defendió que este proceso debe acelerarse ajustando la demanda, sin restringir voluntariamente el suministro nacional, dado que “sería rápidamente cubierto por otros países en detrimento de los intereses nacionales”.
El lunes, Petrobras recibió la licencia ambiental del Instituto Brasileño del Medio Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Renovables (Ibama) para perforar un pozo exploratorio en el bloque FZA-M-059, situado a 175 kilómetros de la costa del estado de Amapá, próximo a la frontera con Surinam. La estatal inició los trabajos el mismo día de la autorización, según informó en un comunicado. Este pozo no producirá petróleo durante la fase exploratoria y las tareas podrían extenderse hasta cinco meses.
El ministro de Energía, Alexandre Silveira, celebró la decisión y subrayó en sus redes sociales que “el Margen Ecuatorial representa el futuro de nuestra soberanía energética. Brasil no puede renunciar a conocer su potencial”. Silveira insistió en que la perforación se realizará bajo “los más altos estándares internacionales” y con “responsabilidad ambiental”.
No obstante, la explotación petrolera en la región ha suscitado críticas de organizaciones ambientalistas y comunidades indígenas, dadas la vulnerabilidad y “extrema sensibilidad” del ecosistema amazónico. La polémica aumenta en vísperas de la COP30, donde uno de los ejes clave de debate será la reducción gradual del uso de combustibles fósiles.
La Margen Ecuatorial, que se extiende desde la frontera con Surinam hasta el noreste del país, es señalada por analistas geológicos y la industria como una de las zonas más prometedoras de Brasil por sus similitudes con los descubrimientos de hidrocarburos realizados en Guyana. Durante la última década, la región ha sido objeto de exploración por parte de importantes compañías internacionales, como Chevron, ExxonMobil, Petrobras y la Corporación Nacional de Petróleo de China.
El gobierno de Lula da Silva argumenta que el crecimiento del sector es clave para financiar la transición energética y el desarrollo económico. En junio, el Ejecutivo subastó otros 19 bloques en alta mar, algunos en cercanías del Amazonas, reafirmando su determinación de expandir la actividad petrolera en el país pese a las restricciones impuestas por las demandas ambientales.
La exploración en aguas profundas bajo la capa de sal, así como en la denominada Margen Ecuatorial, plantea desafíos técnicos y ambientales, en especial por las fuertes corrientes oceánicas y la proximidad a zonas de alta biodiversidad. Petrobras señaló que el pozo exploratorio en el bloque FZA-M-059 forma parte de su estrategia para incrementar reservas y conocer el potencial petrolero brasileño, aunque aún no está previsto su desarrollo comercial inmediato.
(Con información de AFP, AP y EFE)
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Trump to host roundtable on efforts to thwart cartels, human trafficking operations

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Mexican Senator Lilly Téllez joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss growing tensions between President Trump and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. boosts its military presence in the region to target drug boats and cartels.
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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will host a roundtable at the White House Thursday afternoon with law enforcement and administration officials to discuss the successes of the Homeland Security Task Forces, which the president established on his first day in office to snuff out threats from criminal cartels in the U.S.
«The President’s Homeland Security Task Forces are a landmark achievement that highlight what the federal government can achieve with a leader like President Trump who is willing to slash red tape, increase coordination and put the safety of the American people first,» White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital of the event.
«In a short period of time, the Trump Administration has removed lethal drugs, illegal weapons, dangerous foreign terrorists and cartel members from American communities,» she added. «The American people are safer today because of the HSTFs — and they’re just getting started.»
Trump established the creation of Homeland Security Task Forces Jan. 20 — his first day back in office — via executive order, «Protecting the American People from Invasion.» The executive order directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to establish such task forces in each state as part of the administration’s efforts to thwart cartels and human trafficking networks operating on U.S. soil.
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President Donald Trump is slated to hold a roundtable with administration officials to discuss updates on the Homeland Security Task Forces. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The executive order specifically directed the task forces to «end the presence of criminal cartels, foreign gangs, and transnational criminal organizations throughout the United States, dismantle cross-border human smuggling and trafficking networks, end the scourge of human smuggling and trafficking, with a particular focus on such offenses involving children, and ensure the use of all available law enforcement tools to faithfully execute the immigration laws of the United States.»
On Thursday, administration officials will join Trump to provide updates on the task forces’ efforts.
The roundtable will be joined by Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, Noem, Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Fox News Digital learned.
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A January executive order directed Attorney General Pam Bondi, here, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to establish such task forces in each state as part of the administration’s efforts to thwart cartels and human trafficking networks operating on U.S. soil. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital learned that the task forces nationwide became fully operational at the end of August and have yielded thousands of arrests, and the removal of dangerous drugs and illegal firearms from U.S. streets.
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More than 3,000 foreign terrorists and cartel members were arrested as part of the task forces’ operations, including members of notoriously dangerous gangs such as the Sinaloa Cartel, MS-13 and Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Genaracion, Fox News Digital learned.

President Donald Trump will host a roundtable at the White House Oct. 23, 2025, with law enforcement and administration officials, like Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)
The task forces also have recovered two million fentanyl pills and seven tons of other deadly narcotics, seized $3 million in currency and removed more than 1,000 illegal guns from U.S. communities.
Trump campaigned, in part, on removing violent illegal immigrants and crime from U.S. communities, spotlighting the efforts in his address before Congress back in March 2025.
«The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture and exercise total control. They have total control over a whole nation. posing a grave threat to our national security,» Trump said at the time. «The cartels are waging war in America, and it’s time for America to wage war on the cartels.»
The roundtable comes as the U.S. military carries out strikes on suspected drug cartel vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. The strikes began in September and are part of Trump’s broader effort to dismantle transnational cartels by force.
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Trump held a similar roundtable at the White House earlier in October, inviting independent journalists who have experienced Antifa’s violence firsthand to speak about their experiences as the administration targets the left-wing group’s protests outside immigration facilities and recently designating it a «domestic terrorist organization.»
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