Two large New York City-based lobbying outfits are providing staff — sometimes for free — to the frontrunner’s bid.

Even Mr. Cuomo’s rivals are not sure how news that the Justice Department is criminally investigating the former governor will affect his chances.

The Department of Justice is investigating former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his pandemic testimony to Congress. Cuomo is currently running for mayor of New York City and has blasted the investigation as election interference.

The disclosure that NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo is the subject of a federal investigation into COVID nursing home deaths​ is roiling the political world.

Andrew Cuomo, running to be mayor of New York City, hit out at the Trump administration following a New York Times report that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation over testimony he gave relating to his actions as governor of the Empire State during the Coronavirus pandemic.