EXCLUSIVE: FOX May Have Made a Mistake When It Hired Melissa DeRosa, Governor Cuomo’s Former Assistant
Independent journalist Breanna Morello shared the following the other day after FOX announced that it had hired Melissa DeRosa as a host on the network.
Sickening.
Melissa DeRosa allegedly played a pivotal role in hiding Covid nursing homes deaths in order to protect Andrew Como.
She also reportedly targeted women who claimed Cuomo committed sexual misconducts against them.
Now Fox News brings the most unlikeable woman on as a contributor.
Low bar these days.
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) October 5, 2026
Breanna is right. We wrote about the former New York Governor’s relationship with his top aide for over a year back in 2021.
Melissa DeRosa announced her resignation in August 2021 as assistant to Governor Cuomo, ending their public working relationship.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve the people of New York for the past 10 years. New Yorkers’ resilience, strength, and optimism through the most difficult times has inspired me every day,” DeRosa secretary to the governor said in a statement obtained by CNN.
“Personally, the past 2 years have been emotionally and mentally trying. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such talented and committed colleagues on behalf of our state,” she said in the message, which did not mention Cuomo.
However, the relationship between Cuomo and Ms. DeLarosa appeared to be more that work. The Daily Mail reported that the meeting noted in the picture above taken a few years prior to 2021 occurred only 12 days after DeRosa’s marriage to her then husband, Mathew Wing, the former Cuomo spokesperson who then went to work for Uber in the same capacity. Wing’s mother, Audrey Strauss, was the US Attorney running the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York for a year during President Trump’s first term in office. As we noted at the time, DeRosa is very connected and perhaps the most powerful non-elected person in the state.
We reported that Cuomo’s actions involving DeRosa’s side of the family were concerning. We reported in June 2020 that Cuomo’s number one donor was from the elderly home community where Ms. DeRosa’s father and brother are lobbyists. Not only did Cuomo help the donor make millions on COVID-19 but he also provided them immunity from legal ramifications as well.
According to our report in June 2020, New York’s governor and the Department of Health Commissioner and Executive Deputy Commissioner were accountable for thousands of nursing home deaths because of their insane directives related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Below is an example.
During this global health emergency, all NHs [nursing homes] must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs, and No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.
But before this in 2018, Cuomo and his state party committee received close to $2.3m from various hospitals and nursing home industry donors.
According to the New York Public Committee on Public Ethics, GNYHA paid $60,000 to the MirRam Group in March-April 2020, according to the firm’s report. John Emrick, a lobbyist at the firm previously served as the chief of staff for the Independent Democratic Conference state senate caucus, lobbying the Senate majority leader’s office on “safe staffing” and “medical malpractice”.
Another GNYHA lobby firm, the Bolton-St Johns, gave Cuomo’s campaign $40,000 during his 2018 re-election. That firm employs Giorgio DeRosa, Joseph DeRosa, and Jessica Davos–the father, brother, and sister-law respectively Cuomo’s current secretary and top aid, Melissa DeRosa.
So it came as no surprise that New York Governor Cuomo’s Assistant, Melissa DeRosa, tweeted her support for the governor when allegations first surfaced of his illicit actions with women:
We were right to laud Cuomo: Don’t let scandals distract from pandemic competence
https://t.co/Nlab2aQIql
— Melissa DeRosa (@melissadderosa) March 9, 2021
This was after DeRosa praised the Governor’s accomplishments with women:
The Democrats tried to blame the Republicans for ‘making hay’ on Cuomo’s COVID decisions.
After standing by Cuomo up through her resignation in August, DeRosa announces her divorce from her husband. The Daily Mail reports:
‘Mean girl’ Melissa DeRosa, Andrew Cuomo‘s former top aide, has confirmed her split from her husband after a trying year in which she attempted to defend the disgraced governor from sexual harassment allegations and helped cover up the true death toll at New York nursing homes.
DeRosa, 39, said she and Uber executive Matthew Wing recently split and will put their $2.59million Brooklyn Heights home up for sale after living apart for a year following what she called an ’emotionally and mentally trying’ two years.
The estranged couple already appear to be living separate lives. DeRosa rang in her birthday last month with a sexy selfie she posted to Twitter captioned: ‘Ok 39, let’s do this’ and ‘has been staying at her sister’s house in Cape Cod’ since resigning her position in August, sources told the New York Post.