Added to the list of departures is Michael Hein, the former Ulster County Executive who was selected by Cuomo in 2019 to manage the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.
At the source of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hein was tasked to be responsible for the regional control room for the Hudson Valley, monitoring key health metrics as the state tentatively reopened in summer 2020.
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In the last few months, Hein was supposed to supervise the delivery of $2.6 billion in federal funding to help residents pay back rent and utility bills. He was slammed for not being able to deliver the money fast enough.
On Aug. 10, the day Cuomo announced his resignation, Hein confessed to lawmakers at an Assembly hearing that he had never talked with the then-governor about the program, which was created by Congress at the beginning of this year.
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Other officials headed for the exit, according to sources, include Dr. Theodore Kastner, commissioner of the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities; Arlene González-Sánchez, head of the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services; Kenneth Theobalds, chair of the New York State Insurance Fund; Human Rights Division Commissioner Licha Nyiendo; Deputy Secretary for General Government and Technology Molly Reilly; Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights and Workforce Debra Alligood White; Director of Cannabis Program Norman Birenbaum; and Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Jeremy Shockett.
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The shake-up in Albany began hours after the Friday announcement that Amit Singh Bagga, who unsuccessfully sought to represent the 26th City Council District earlier this year, had been appointed Hochul’s deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs.
It also comes one day after Hochul announced that state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker would step down from his position as soon as a substitution could be located.
Zucker, who had been in his post since 2015, was condemned by critics for helping Cuomo reduce and cover the appalling toll of COVID-19 in nursing homes across the state. It was he who originated the notorious March 2020 order that required nursing homes to accept coronavirus-positive residents returning from hospitals, given they were not critically ill. Zucker also barred nursing homes from testing the returning residents for the virus
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That system was peacefully removed in May of last year, but family members of those who died in long-term care facilities said the damage had been done by then.
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