PARAMUS, NJ – The U.S. Department of Justice initially launched investigations into several progressive Democrat Governors who ordered nursing homes to take in COVID-19 positive patients last year. This year, the feds dropped all of those cases except for the one against the State of New Jersey and Governor Phil Murphy where as many as 8,000 seniors died as a result of an order to force those facilities to allow COVID-19 positive elderly patients to return.
Today, federal investigators arrived at state-run veterans’ homes in Paramus and Menlo Park as the investigation continues.
On August 27, 2020, the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing.
At the time, according to the Centers for Disease Control, New York has the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, with 32,592 victims, many of them elderly. New York’s death rate by population was the second-highest in the country with 1,680 deaths per million people. New Jersey’s death rate by population is 1,733 deaths per million people – the highest in the nation.
Last month, investigators began interviewing families whose loved ones perished in veteran nursing homes in Menlo Park and Paramus.