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...............
Couldn't have happened to anyone more deserving.
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).
Interesting to see some coverage of this on CNN after they were a Cuomo cheerleader for so long.
Did CNN institute and decide to abide by some rules of ethics now?
Stick a fork in Cuomo, he is done.
Cuomo didnt understand that everyone (unless your name is Donald Trump) has to abide by sexual harassment rules. One of the charges is that he touched a state troopers neck in an elevator and ran his finger down her spine. Cuomo will likely lose his position and his reputation for something that Trump did hundreds of times. I suspect Bill Clinton did too.
Still Cuomo had to know better and his ego got the better of him.
He didn't understand laws he signed?
Okay........sure he didn't "understand".............
Which just makes him a dumbfuck.
He's not dumb , he has a big ego and he thought the rules didnt apply to him.
I dont think any of the women are alleging that Cuomo grabbed their p---y so he can run for president against Trump without any complaint.
I truly admire how you can seemingly turn any topic into another of your "I Hate Trump" screeds!
So seamlessly how you move from one topic to another, without even skipping a beat!
Cuomo is a dumbfuck.
Gee, could two Democratic governors of two liberal states really be on the verge of being removed from office?
Which proves my point that he is a dumbfuck.
Do you have yet more examples to prove my point?
I suspect that this report has just increased Cuomo’s cred with Donald Trump. Respect!
Let me know when Trump retires from public life. It hasnt happened yet.
The Democrats will hold their politicians accountable for this sort of thing in 2020-21.
Republicans had their chance to hold their candidate accountable in 2016 and failed .
All there is to it.
So Cuomo is TRYING to curry favor with Trump?
LOL!
We will see if he is held accountable or not soon won't we?
it won't matter to you any because there will always be Trump, Trump, Trump for you!
I am wondering how long the Trump obsession will last.
Unsupported speculation.
This is what I am waiting for some Republican women to say
"the governor ran his fingers down the woman's back? She should be flattered that such a handsome powerful man would flirt with her like that and pay her that attention".
If they are not hypocrites that is what Republican women will say. Its what a lot of them said about Trump.
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Trump went on Howard Stern's show and bragged about his approaching women
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It's only ok if a toad like trmp does it. Biden and Cuomo have no business even looking at women, let alone touch them
Does trmp think the rules apply to him? He sure doesn't act like they do.
Oh...I'll save you the trouble
WHATABOUTISM!!!!!!!!!!
Is the article about Trump?
Is the article about Trump?
Never any trouble to point out facts.
Exactly.
I don't care
Not what was asked, nor does that interest me.
Here is the question---AGAIN:
Is the article about Trump?
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hows that?
Donald Trump is running for president again and is still going around regularly saying the election was stolen from him.
He has made live or media appearances a couple dozen times since he left office. No other former president kept himself in the public eye after he left office the way Trump has.
He is in the news every day, and it is not something that is within MY control. I dont want that ignorant fuck continuing on as a political leader. It disgraces this country every day.
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It's about powerful wealthy men using their positions to intimidate and sexually harass women, so yeah, it's about Trump and Weinstein and every other scum bag who has acted that way and thought they were above the law.
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truth is the best defense
Silly old me.
All I did was read the headline and then the article.
I guess it is too much to ask why you think the article is about anyone other than Cuomo.
Especially since he is the subject of the article and supposedly, the subject of on-topic comments.
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Same as it ever was, same as it ever was!
half the comments about trump on this article are you and a couple other people complaining that trump was brought up
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I mocked no one specifically.
Look at it again.
Without the first one the second one didnt make as much sense.
Still doesn't.
Are the twitter twits demanding his resignation?
Probably too busy comparing everyone and everything to Trump to bother with that.
TDS affliction is lasting longer than the CDC predicted....special programs and interventions maybe needed for those who still think Trump is President.
Good idea. Trump should be put in a strait jacket on that basis.
lol....Trump lives on. Even Biden knows Trump isn't President anymore...I think.
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
You forgot the cardinal rules for progressive liberals:
Blame Trump for everything.
Compare everything to Trump.
Make everything about Trump 24/7/365.
Well....you have to admit... it's WAAAAAY more entertaining than back when they had to use Sarah Palin instead of Trump.
We know, you hardly thought about him when he was acting like a complete asshole as president of the United States for four years either.
So sue her for not being Trump-obsessed.
And she was fine with him porking a porn star and then having her paid off.
Gotta go...already over my limit for today
Oh.
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?
A large difference, and it will be conveniently overlooked.
Some folks equate allegations with facts.
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
Funny that a comparison can be made at all when one instance is all unsubstantiated allegations and the other is proven fact.
They might as well compare rice to concrete.
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!
Yeah, exactly the same to some folks.
Crazy, isn't it?
I have always addressed you directly when I felt it necessary---except all that time you had me blocked.
Ah, the good old days!
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
Almost everyone knew that Edwards didn't stand a chance in 2008. It was supposed to be Hillary's turn then, but Obama won instead, so her turn had to wait.
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.
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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.
Like Newt Gingrich's wife who was dying of cancer while he was humping wife #2 or #3?
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.
And Trump paid off that porn star with his own money NOT campaign funds.
Over half the comments on this article have been deleted or locked.
The seeder should delete this whole thing and start over.
But how to keep people on Cuomo and stop deflecting to Trump?
probably cant be done completely. a tape came out with trump admitting to sexually assaulting women
and people voted for him anyway
has cuomo done something worse here?
Amazingly, I had zero problem reading the article and determining the topic as Cuomo.
Not everyone appears to have the capability to do likewise, unfortunately.
Is there any story at all where anyone doesn't compare the subject to Trump in some way or another?
i take that to mean that you cant defend trump
And I will take your comments to mean that you can't talk about anything but Trump--no matter the topic at hand.
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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