Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, probe finds
By: MICHAEL R. SISAK (MSN)
Somebody's not gonna have a good day.............
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NEW YORK (AP) — An investigation into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo found that he sexually harassed multiple current and former state government employees, state Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
© Provided by Associated Press FILE - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at New York's Yankee Stadium, Monday, July 26, 2021. Investigators conducting an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo questioned him for eleven hours when he met with them last month, The New York Times reported Monday, Aug. 2. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
The nearly five-month investigation, conducted by two outside lawyers who spoke to 179 people, found that the Cuomo administration was a "hostile work environment" and that it was "rife with fear and intimidation."
People interviewed included complainants, current and former members of the executive chamber, State troopers, additional state employees and others who interacted regularly with the governor.
"These interviews and pieces of evidence revealed a deeply disturbing yet clear picture: Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed current and former state employees, federal and state laws," James said at a press conference on Tuesday.
On at least one occasion, the investigation found, Cuomo and his senior staff worked to retaliate against a former employee who accused him of wrongdoing. Cuomo was also found to have harassed women outside of government, the investigation found.
James said the investigation wouldn't have been possible without the "heroic women who came forward."
Cuomo faced multiple allegations last winter that he inappropriately touched and sexually harassed women who worked with him or who he met at public events. One aide in his office said he groped her breast.
Another, Lindsey Boylan, said Cuomo kissed her on the lips after a meeting in his office and "would go out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs."
After Boylan first made her allegations public in December, the Cuomo administration undercut her story by releasing personnel memos to media outlets revealing that Boylan resigned after she was confronted about complaints she belittled and yelled at her staff.
Boylan has said those records "were leaked to the media in an effort to smear me."
Other aides have said that the Democratic governor asked them unwelcome personal questions about sex and dating. One former aide, Charlotte Bennett, said Cuomo asked if she was open to sex with an older man.
Last winter there was a chorus of calls for Cuomo's resignation from many top elected Democrats in New York, including two U.S. senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. But Cuomo refused to quit and has been raising money for a fourth term in office.
His position on the allegations has also hardened into one of defiance. Cuomo has always denied touching anyone inappropriately, but he initially said he was sorry if his behavior with women was "misinterpreted as unwanted flirtation." In recent months, he's taken a more combative tack, saying he did nothing wrong and questioning the motives of accusers and critics.
He has also questioned the neutrality of the lawyers hired by the attorney general to investigate the allegations. One of the attorneys, Joon Kim, was involved in previous investigations of corruption by people in Cuomo's administration when he was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan. Cuomo hasn't expressly said why he believes that would make Kim biased.
The attorney general's report is expected to play an important role in an ongoing inquiry in the state Assembly into whether there are grounds for Cuomo to be impeached.
The Assembly hired its own legal team to investigate Cuomo's conduct, plus other allegations of wrongdoing. The legislature is looking into the help Cuomo got from senior aides to write a book about the pandemic, special access that Cuomo relatives got to COVID-19 testing last year, and the administration's decision to withhold some data on nursing home deaths from the public for several months.
Some members of the judiciary committee have said they expect James' report to be "critical" for the impeachment investigation.
New York state regulations say sexual harassment includes unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature — from unwanted flirtation to sexual jokes — that creates an offensive work environment, regardless of a perpetrator's intent.
The governor, in contrast, has repeatedly argued that he did not intend to harass anyone. His office has said he took the state's mandated sexual harassment training, but has not provided any documentation proving he did.
Cuomo championed a landmark 2019 state law that made it easier for sexual harassment victims to prove their case in court. Alleged victims no longer have to meet the high bar of proving sexual harassment is "severe and pervasive."
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Listening to the live news conference right now. Looks like there is gonna be a new Governor...............
He can always find employment within organized crime ('The Mob'). He's likely to have many connections there.
Unchecked ego will get you every time (in politics).
Are the twitter twits demanding his resignation?
Amazing. Where are all of our women of the female persuasion's comments calling Cuomo all of the outrage and things they apply to Mr. Trump and others?
Curiouser and Curiouser. Oh wait. Forgot the politics of the subject.
SMH
We are in the place where all the conservatives of female persuasion were when all the allegations about trmp and Kavanaugh came out.
I know...I know...more whataboutism
Neither one was in office at the time of their supposed wrongdoings. And investigations turned up nothing. A little bit different in this case.
You all hung John Edwards out to dry when he was found with a mistress...and he was only a candidate.
Waiting for multiple accusers to be outed as liars and arrested?
Nope. Just staying silent. Nothing to say about those on our side of the aisle just like your wimmen had nothing to say
If you've got something to say, say it to me. Don't pussy foot around with your passive agressive snide remarks. It makes you look like an orchid
Found with a mistress? He impregnated her FFS and if I remember correctly, used campaign funds for personal gains due to that circumstance.
"Following his 2008 campaign, Edwards was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 3, 2011, on six felony charges of violating multiple federal campaign contribution laws to cover up an extramarital affair to which he eventually admitted."
An AG investigation of 179 people surely is the same as one 40 year old accusation from someone who can't remember where or when the assault happened.
Yes. It's coming back. And he should have been indicted. He really disappointed me. But when trmp paid off a porn star not a one of you said he was unworthy of being POTUS. You continued to support him. Maybe you can understand why some of us are so frustrated at your words and actions.
OR
Maybe you do this shit on purpose just to "own" the liberals. More than one of you has said that more than once on this forum.
You know what? I never should have commented on this seed. So now I'm limiting out. Have a good day. And don't forget to flag!
Not gonna flag. That's what happens elsewhere for no reason.
And Trump paid off that porn star with his own money NOT campaign funds. Still was a dumbass for even doinking that...............
And never said Edwards shouldn't have been POTUS although once it came out, I think even Dems dumped him
Fair enough.
Although I think what you're doing here is what "your side" likes to call "false equivalency"...and it's possibly the most ridiculous one I've ever seen.
whatev
OK....Absolute respect here. No sarcasm. No double meaning. No wisecracks.
I can't speak for anybody else. I never commented on the porn star thing because I thought it was so far down the list of reasons he shouldn't be president that I never got around to it. The only thing that could have made me vote for Trump was a Bernie nomination.
TBH, I didn't care about Trump's escapades, and I don't care about Cuomo's. I was angry about the Kavanaugh episode because Dianne Feinstein showed zero reservation about destroying the lives of two good people simply to get a stab at Trump.
I dont think Kavanaugh's behavior as a teenager should have entered into the debate about his Supreme Court nomination (unless it had been previously in the justice system) , but once it was agreed that it would happen the allegations should have been properly investigated. Brett Kavanaugh hung out with a bunch of drunken football team pals who were known to be disrespectful to the local girls. It is not at all beyond the possibility of belief that he could have gotten drunk one night and tried to take this girl's clothes off. Her inability to remember the date hardly proves it didnt happen.
And more than one person who knew him in college says he exposed himself at a party. The FBI investigation into that accusation seemed to be almost non-existent.
As I said, I question whether these instances are a disqualifier for the Court 30 years later, but once the questions were posed by the committee they should have been properly investigated and they werent.
Yikes!
How 'bout 'we' put it this way - sexual harassment has turned into yet another joke in this nation ... not everyone is believed, unless said wimmen doing the accusing are like minded against [insert name of accused] ...?
..... anyone remember Gary Hart ... hahahahaha!
She named three other people...none of whom had any idea WTF she was talking about.
I absolutely don't care what he did as a frat boy.
If somebody suggested that ACB should not be a SCOTUS judge because she got drunk during a girls trip in 1990 and flashed her tits on Bourbon Street for beads, they would have rightfully been crucified.
No, they should not have. There was no relevance to the issue at hand.
Over half the comments on this article have been deleted or locked.
The seeder should delete this whole thing and start over.
This coming from the guy that brought Trump into the conversation and fucked it up...............NO
Yep. And 179 people were talked to in this case. It was, as I believe the article said "a hostile environment". Other than Trump's bravado and trying to impress Billy Bush, what became of it?
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