Buffalo News: “Michael R. Caputo, the East Aurora political consultant at the center of controversy over the Trump administration’s Covid-19 messaging, has been diagnosed with cancer. Assemblyman David J. DiPietro, R-East Aurora, acting as Caputo’s spokesman, said Thursday that the Health and Human Services spokesman on leave from his assistant secretary post has ‘squamous cell carcinoma, a metastatic head and neck cancer which originated in his throat.'”
“‘He is now home in Western New York, resting in the loving arms of his family, under the watchful eye of Jesus Christ,’ DiPietro said in a written statement. Caputo, who was diagnosed after surgery last week for a lump on his neck at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., has yet to determine where further treatment will take place, he said Thursday.”