Good guess - they were not given a choice. If they refused he would shut the facility down.
The problem with that is that Fedzilla relaxed their regs two weeks before Cuomo’s diktat.
Fedzilla had the facilities’ backs.
My bet is that Cuomo threatened and/or bribed the facilities.
I do know there highly questionable communications between Albany and some Upstate facilities that need an explanation.
And nobody’s interested.