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NY Assembly Finds ‘Overwhelming Evidence’ Cuomo Engaged in S*xual Harassment

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Nov 22, 2021.

NY assembly finds ‘overwhelming evidence’ Cuomo engaged in sexual harassment

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the New York state Assembly Judiciary Committee concluded an eight-month impeachment probe into various charges of misbehavior by finding “overwhelming evidence” that disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo participated in sexual harassment while in office.

Cuomo “acted in many incidents of sexual harassment, including by creating a hostile work environment and engaging in sexual misbehavior,” according to the judiciary committee’s 60-page report, which detailed the investigation by law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo at the Eastside Heliport in Midtown on Aug. 10, 2021, in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images)

The investigation consisted of hundreds of interviews of relevant witnesses as well as a review of tens of thousands of documents, including emails, text messages, photographs, recordings of phone calls, social media accounts and video recordings, the report said.

Cuomo, who resigned in August after the state attorney general’s report saying he sexually harassed 11 women, has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

“We have reviewed the former governor’s challenges to the allegations, and nothing in his voluminous submissions can overcome the overwhelming evidence of his misconduct,” the report said.

The report also found that Cuomo tasked top state officials with helping him develop his book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” and that one senior official even complained in a text message to a colleague that working on the book was compromising his or her ability to work on COVID-related matters.

The former governor “utilized state resources and property, including work by Executive Chamber staff, to write, publish, and promote his book regarding his handling of the COVID-19 crisis – a project for which he was guaranteed at least $5.2 million in personal profit,” the report said.

Investigators also found that the Cuomo administration “was not fully transparent” with the American people about the number of nursing home residents who died as a result of COVID-19, and that out-of-facility deaths were deliberately left out of a published state Department of Health report, which Cuomo had a significant hand in editing and revising after he faced criticism for his handling of nursing homes during the pandemic.

The Assembly committee did not review its findings with Cuomo or his team, which Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi said could “result in a one-sided report,” the New York Times reported.

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