The U.S. Department of Justice has conducted a criminal investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who allegedly lied to Congress to learn about his decisions during the league's 19 pandemic while serving as governor, a source familiar with the Fox News investigation.

The New York Times first reported that Washington's U.S. attorney's office investigated Cuomo about a month ago after senior Justice Department officials demanded the dismissal of corruption allegations by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

The Justice Department declined to comment on Fox News.

The Trump administration is now in an unusual location to end criminal cases against Adams while opening new cases to Adams' main competitors within a few months.

Cuomo runs for New York City's next mayor in the Democratic primary, while Adams seeks re-election as an independent candidate.

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"We've never been told any of this kind of question, so why is anyone leaking it now? The answer is obvious: It's a simple and simple legal and electoral intervention - President Trump and his top Justice Department officials say they're against it," Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi told Fox News. “Governor Cuomo testified truthfully that he made the best recollection of the incident four years ago, and he offered to address any follow-up questions of the subcommittee, but from the outset it was politically political.”

Last year, the former governor was baked by Republican lawmakers, who dealt with Covid-19-19. House Republicans then suggested that the Justice Department file criminal charges against him. They accused him of lying to Congress in a House Oversight Committee investigation into excessive nursing home deaths.

James Comer (R-Ky, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Commission.

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House Rep. Brad Wenstrup, then-State House member, selected a subcommittee amid the coronavirus pandemic, said Cuomo made “multiple criminal misrepresentations” to Congress to understand his handling of the 2020 Covid-19 scandal for the 2020 Covid-19 training return scandal.

Cuomo, who was then the governor, issued a directive in March 2020 that initially prohibited nursing homes from refusing to accept patients who were positive for COVID-19. The directive is designed to release overwhelmed hospital beds.

More than 9,000 recovered coronavirus patients were released from hospitals to nursing homes under the directive, and it was later speculated that it had accelerated the outbreak.

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Eight plaintiffs in the case argued that their loved ones signed up for Covid-19 in nursing homes and died as a result of the directive. They accused Cuomo and his administration of responsibility for their deaths and were not responsible for failing to accurately report the number of deaths in nursing homes in New York State.

Cuomo had previously stated that the directive was based on the then Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines.

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A report released by the New York State auditor general in March 2022 found that the Cuomo Department of Health “is not transparent in reporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes” and in some points of the pandemic, “underestimated the death toll in nursing homes by up to 50%.”

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi last month, Comer said: "To the best of our knowledge, despite clear facts and evidence, the Biden administration has ignored this referral." He asked Bondi to review the referral and "take appropriate litigation."

"Andrew Cuomo, a man with a history of corruption and deception, is now lying to Congress in a selected subcommittee on the investigation of the Covid-19 nursing home tragedy in New York," Comer said in a statement Monday. "It's not a slip-and-this is a cover-up of a man trying to protect himself from the devastating death of a nursing home in New York. Let's make it clear: lying to Congress is a federal crime. Mr. Cuomo must sue Mr. Cuomo to the maximum extent of the law. The House's oversight committee prepares a lawsuit with the judicial department's investigation committee to ensure that the judicial department's investigation and liability committee is in place, and that's ready to work with him.

Michael Dorgan and Danielle Wallace of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.