The distraught families of nursing home residents who were fatally exposed to COVID-19 have brought a bombshell lawsuit blaming disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for 'thousands' of deaths. 

In their fiery legal attack, the group of eight is accusing Cuomo of causing the 'wrongful and untimely deaths' of their loved ones along with more than 15,000 nursing home patients through his 'deadly' March 25th Directive. 

Under this 'shocking' policy, nursing homes were forced to take coronavirus patients despite knowing thousands of vulnerable residents would be exposed to the deadly virus in 2020. 

The plaintiffs - the widows and children of eight residents who died while the policy was in place - are suing Cuomo along with several other high-ranking officials in his administration. 

Cuomo's former 'mean girl' aide Melissa DeRosa, former Commissioner of the New York Department of Health Howard Zucker, and ex-Executive Deputy Commissioner for the Department, Sally Dreslin, are named as defendants in the case. 

'At the time of her infection and death from COVID-19, Defendants were actively, willfully, and intentionally conspiring to undercount and underreport nursing home deaths to hide the truth about the devastating effects of the virus in nursing homes,' the lawsuit reads for one woman who died in April with the virus. 

The case was filed this week in a New York federal court. It estimates that there could be 15,000 families who could claim damages, and asks for an unspecified amount of money.