by Sharon Rondeau
(Mar. 12, 2024) — In response to an ABC News article dated March 5, 2024 reporting that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been subpoenaed to testify in front of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on May 24, investigative journalist and author John Leake and cardiologist, epidemiologist and academic physician Dr. Peter A. McCullough have posted at no charge a pertinent chapter from their 2022 book, “The Courage to Face COVID-19.”
The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH2), is one of six of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY1). It seeks to identify the origins of COVID-19 and to deliver “answers and accountability” to Americans.
On October 10, 2023, the subcommittee issued a press release reporting:
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) are threatening to subpoena former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo after he unfortunately failed to produce any documents or communications related to his state’s deadly COVID-19 nursing home policies. During the height of the pandemic, former Governor Cuomo made the medically misguided decision to mandate that nursing homes and long-term care facilities across New York “must admit” contagious COVID-19 patients. Former Governor Cuomo not only disregarded CDC and CMS guidance, but also seemingly covered-up the mortality rate resulting from his policies, and then attempted to shift political blame.
McCullough was one of the earliest cautionary voices about the rapid development of COVID-19 “vaccines” as well as in sounding the alarm after data entered into VAERS, which carries felony penalties for submitting false information, indicating to him significant safety signals for serious adverse events following injection.
Leake is an author specializing in “true crime” stories who in late 2020 sought out McCullough after seeing his December 7, 2020 testimony to the U.S. Senate on early COVID treatment options and “solutions” to the pandemic.
The book chapter reminds readers that approximately a year after the pandemic was declared, during which Cuomo took extraordinary executive action to prohibit the dispensing of off-label drugs as possible treatment for those sickened by the virus as well as shielding nursing-home employees from liability, Cuomo was publicly accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women and several investigations opened in response.
“After flying high in 2020, the Cuomo brothers fell back to earth in 2021,” Leake and McCullough wrote in Chapter 11, “when multiple women accused the Governor of sexual harassment. He was then further accused of using his executive power to suppress these allegations. Chris Cuomo was likewise accused of using his powerful media connections to aid and abet his brother in the concealment.
“A cynic might be tempted to wonder about the timing of the sexual misconduct allegations—right as reports emerged that New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Attorney Seth Ducharme of the Eastern District of New York, and the FBI were opening investigations into allegations of malfeasance resulting in nursing home deaths. Especially disturbing was the allegation that Governor Cuomo provided legal immunity to nursing home executives from whom he received campaign contributions, possibly giving them carte blanche to cut costs at the expense of the care and safety of their residents…”
McCullough and Leake, separately or in combination, publish daily on McCullough’s Substack. In addition to maintaining a private practice, McCullough hosts a radio show focusing on medical issues and has participated in hundreds of interviews on COVID-19, particularly the growing number of side effects reported as a result of the shots, a contention the mainstream media has stridently attempted to dispel.