Benjamin Landa, a son of Holocaust survivors who went on to run New York nursing homes that have come under fire from state authorities, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to become ambassador to Hungary.

Landa's nursing home interests have included Cold Spring Hills in Woodbury, where he and his partners were ordered to pay $2 million in restitution and install an independent monitor after state Attorney General Letitia James sued over alleged resident neglect and fraud. She separately sued a different New York nursing home in which Landa had a small ownership stake as a landlord but not operator of the property.

The Cold Spring Hills case is on appeal, and the White House and Landa's attorney both dismissed the allegations. "No one cares about phony probes by disgraced Atto

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