![]() We continued our investigation into Donald Trump, members of the Trump family, and the Trump organization. We also held powerful people accountable. We co-led a bipartisan coalition of 37 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against Google for illegal and anticompetitive conduct. We filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department for its pattern of excessive force and false arrests during peaceful protests. We continued to pursue our lawsuit against the National Rifle Association and its executives. We uncovered that the New York State Department of Health undercounted COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes and that nursing homes failed to comply with infection control protocols. We secured up to $1.5 billion in funding for communities from Big Pharma companies for their role in perpetuating the opioid crisis. We held powerful institutions accountable. If there was a single theme that ran throughout our actions in this office, it was this: We held the powerful accountable. In the difficult year of 2021, the Attorney General’s Office had New Yorkers’ backs, and took on your fights. I want to thank the people of New York state for their resolve, sacrifice, and courage, and for their consistent choice to preserve, protect, and defend our democracy. This has been time of testing and of choosing. We saw disturbing and credible allegations leveled at our former governor, and – in the year’s very first week – we suffered a violent attack on our democracy, followed by a systematic effort to limit the sacred right to vote. We fought against a concerted effort to revoke, rescind, and refuse a woman’s right to make her own health decisions. ![]() We continued our urgent, and necessary, national struggle for racial justice. We endured another pandemic year of lost mobility, opportunity, and loved ones. James seeks, among other things, a return of the money and a ban on new admissions until staffing is increased at the homes.On New Year’s Day 2021, none of us could have predicted the tests we would face over the next 12 months. The lawsuit names Centers Health Care co-owners Kenneth Rozenberg and Daryl Hagler and a series of businesses owned by them, family members or business associates. More than 400 residents across the four homes died in 2020, according to James. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the homes failed to control its spread. He was an artist." said Cynthia Vega, recalling her late Uncle George's stay at Holliswood. "My uncle was found sitting in a filthy room, unbathed and only wearing an adult diaper. ![]() Another resident did not have her colostomy bag attached. One resident with severe bed sores developed sepsis, was hospitalized and died. The suit claims residents' meals were late, clothes were stolen and call bells were unanswered. The four homes in the lawsuit are Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in the Bronx, the Holliswood Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare in Queens, the Martine Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Westchester County and the Buffalo Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing. We will fight these spurious claims with the facts on our side," spokesperson Jeff Jacomowitz said in an emailed statement. Centers denies the New York Attorney General's allegations wholeheartedly and attempted to resolve this matter out of court. "Centers Health Care prides itself on its commitment to patient care. Residents lived in squalor, surrounded by neglected food trays, vermin and the smell of human waste," James said at a news conference held with residents' relatives. "Residents were left alone and on their own, often unaided and unsupervised, leading to dangerous falls and broken bones. James claims understaffing at the homes contributed to neglect. ![]() The lawsuit filed in Manhattan accuses owners and operators of Centers Health Care of using Medicaid and Medicare funds to enrich themselves, their relatives and associates instead of for the care of the residents. The operators of four nursing homes in New York misused more than US$83 million in government funds and neglected residents, including some who were malnourished or were left to sit for hours in their own urine and feces, state Attorney General Letitia James said in a lawsuit Wednesday. ![]()
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