State Trooper #1
Cuomo is accused of sexually harassed a state trooper, referred to within the report as Trooper #1, who he employed onto his protecting element in 2017 – bending the three-year expertise requirement.
Though she had solely accomplished two years on the drive, the governor reportedly needed the unnamed trooper in his inside circle.
He’s stated to have requested a senior member of his safety element so as to add her to the group although she didn’t meet the usual requirement.
‘Ha ha, they modified the minimal from 3 years to 2 only for you,’ the senior safety member informed the trooper in an e-mail, which was included within the AG’s report.
As soon as she was on his group, he allegedly harassed her on a variety of events, together with one the place he ran his hand throughout her abdomen from her stomach button to her proper hip whereas she was holding the door open for him at an occasion.
‘I felt…utterly violated as a result of to me…that is between my chest and my privates,’ the trooper stated, based on Business Insider.
‘However, , I am right here to do a job.’
He additionally ran is accused ‘operating his finger down her again’ whereas they had been in an elevator collectively and saying ‘hey you’, and kissing her on the cheek in entrance of one other trooper.
‘I keep in mind simply freezing, being – behind my head, I am like, oh, how do I say no politely as a result of in my head if I stated no, he’ll take it out on the element. And now I am on the dangerous checklist,’ the trooper stated.
Cuomo additionally allegedly requested her to assist him discover a girlfriend and stated he needed somebody who ‘favored ache’, and requested her why she needed to get married, saying ‘your intercourse drive goes down’.
‘Trooper #1 discovered these interactions with the Governor not solely offensive and uncomfortable, however markedly completely different from the best way the Governor interacted with members of the PSU who had been males, and she or he conveyed these incidents contemporaneously to colleagues,’ the report reads.
The trooper stated she was afraid of being retaliated in opposition to if she had been to talk out in opposition to the conduct.
The State Troopers Police Benevolent Affiliation stated in a press release on Tuesday that it was ‘dismayed and disturbed’ by the findings.
Tom Mungeer, president of the affiliation, stated: ‘I am outraged and disgusted that one among my members, who was tasked with guarding the governor and making certain his security, couldn’t get pleasure from the identical sense of safety in her work surroundings that he was offered.’
State Entity Worker #2
A health care provider says she was sexually harassed whereas administering a televised COVID-19 check to Cuomo.
The physician who administered a COVID-19 check to Cuomo she was sexually harassed in the course of the incident.
On Could 17, 2020 Cuomo informed the medic, in entrance of cameras ‘good to see you physician, you make that robe look good’.
The physician, who appeared in full PPE gear, didn’t reply to his remark.
Cuomo is accused of sexually harassing the medic whereas she administered him a COVID-19 check in entrance of cameras
Cuomo allegedly made feedback in direction of the medic that had been sexual in nature. He stated: ‘Good to see you physician, you make that robe look good’
The report additionally claims that earlier than the check, Cuomo requested her to not swab him so arduous that it ‘hit his mind’.
She replied that she’d be ‘light however correct’ and he stated ‘I’ve heard that earlier than,’ which the physician stated was ‘implied in a sexual nature’.
The medic thought of the interplay to be sexual harassment and investigators agreed.
One other unnamed ‘state entity worker’
The unidentified worker, recognized within the report as ‘State Entity Worker #1,’ stated she attended an occasion with Cuomo in September 2019.
After giving a speech, Cuomo is alleged to have posed for footage along with her. Whereas the image was being taken, he ‘grabbed her butt’.
‘The worker was shocked and mentioned it with a variety of buddies, household and colleagues,’ the report says.
She additionally ‘memorialized the Governor’s inappropriate touching’ contemporaneously, however the report does not say how.
‘Government Assistant One’
Cuomo is accused of groping an government assistant, whose identification stays nameless, at an occasion final November after routinely participating in a sample of impropriate conduct that started in late 2019.
The report consists of photographs of Cuomo with a lady described as ‘government assistant one’
The report says Cuomo repeatedly sexually harassed ‘Government Assistant One’ when she labored for him by subjecting her to ‘shut and intimate hugs’, ‘kisses on the cheeks and brow’, ‘no less than one kiss on the lips’ and ‘touching her butt’.
He allegedly referred to her and one different assistant as ‘mingle mamas’ and requested her repeatedly if she would ever cheat on her husband.
On December 31, 2019, Cuomo requested her to take a selfies of them as they labored collectively inside his workplace on the Government Mansion.
As she held up the digital camera, Cuomo ‘moved his hand to seize her butt cheek and commenced to rub it’ for no less than 5 seconds, the report alleges.
The assistant ‘was shaking a lot throughout this interplay’ that the photographs got here out blurry — and Cuomo prompt the 2 sit all the way down to take yet another, the doc says.
That picture, exhibiting Cuomo smirking whereas he sits again on a sofa with the aide, is included within the report.
The governor then allegedly informed her to ship the snap to a different aide, Alyssa McGrath – who has additionally accused Cuomo of sexual harassment – and stated ‘to not share the {photograph} with anybody else.’
The girl stated she did not report what occurred as a result of she was terrified.
‘[T]he manner he was so agency with [me] that I could not present anybody else that picture, I used to be simply terrified that if I shared what was happening that it will in some way get round,’ she informed investigators.
Cuomo admitted that he and the staffer took a photograph collectively, however stated it was her concept, as a result of ‘he doesn’t prefer to take selfies.’
In November 2020, he allegedly groped her breast on the Government Mansion in Albany.
‘For over three months, Government Assistant #1 saved this groping incident to herself and deliberate to take it ‘to the grave,’ however discovered herself turning into emotional (in a manner that was seen to her colleagues within the Government Chamber) whereas watching the Governor state, at a press convention on March 3, 2021, that he had by no means ‘touched anybody inappropriately.’
She then confided in sure of her colleagues, who in flip reported her allegations to senior employees within the Government Chamber, the report says.
Cuomo, in a defiant deal with after the report was printed, offered a montage of photographs of him being tactile with individuals reminiscent of Invoice Clinton, his mom and Robert De Niro. He used the picture present to say he was by no means abusive, however merely somebody who continuously hugged and touched individuals
Cuomo, who served as secretary of the Division of Housing and City Growth in the course of the Clinton administration, is seen above planting a kiss on the cheek of former Vice President Al Gore
Cuomo’s montage included one other picture of him planting a kiss on his mom’s brow
Cuomo included a photograph above exhibiting the governor grabbing a younger boy’s face
The assistant was summoned to the mansion underneath the pretext of getting to help Cuomo with a technical challenge involving his telephone, the Times Union reported in March.
The 2 had been alone collectively on the second ground of the residence when Cuomo allegedly closed the door, reached underneath the lady’s shirt and commenced to fondle her.
‘You are going to get us in hassle,’ the lady stated she informed Cuomo, who replied, ‘I do not care,’ based on the report.
His demeanor ‘wasn’t like ‘ha ha,’ it was like, ‘I do not care.’ . . . It was like on this – at that second he was sexually pushed. I may inform and the best way he stated it, I may inform,’ the lady testified.
The governor then ‘slid his hand up her shirt, and grabbed her breast, cupping her breast over her bra,’ the report alleges.
A supply accustomed to the incident informed the newspaper that the sufferer had requested Cuomo to cease.
This was allegedly the one time he touched her; all different cases concerned flirtatious conduct.
Lindsey Boylan
Boylan, who was the primary accuser to talk out publicly, stated that Cuomo made inappropriate remarks to her when she labored as chief of employees to the CEO of the Empire State Growth Company.
Boylan is seen in Washington Sq. Park in Manhattan on March 20 at a rally demanding Cuomo resign
Cuomo stated that he discovered her engaging and that he needed to play strip poker.
She additionally stated that he bodily touched her on numerous components of her physique, together with her waist, legs, and again.
She claimed that after she reported her allegations, she was victimized by his group who ran a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her whereas she ran for workplace.
The alleged harassment came about between 2015 and 2018.
Studies launched earlier this yr revealed that Cuomo’s prime aide tried to discredit Boylan and allegedly referred to as no less than six former staff in search of dust on her.
Lindsey Boylan was the primary accuser to talk out publicly in opposition to Cuomo. She says he made inappropriate feedback in direction of her and bodily touched her on numerous components of her physique
Charlotte Bennett
Bennett labored briefly for Cuomo as an aide. She was a well being coverage adviser within the New York governor’s administration, employed within the spring of 2019 and swiftly promoted to senior briefer and government assistant only some months later.
AG Letitia James says her allegations that Cuomo harassed her with a collection of feedback are corroborated.
Amongst his alleged remarks are questions on if she’d date older males, asking her assist to discover a girlfriend, and apparently quizzing her on a sexual assault she had endured.
Charlotte Bennett, who labored for Cuomo final yr, informed CBS Information she felt ‘vindicated’ by the report
EXCLUSIVE: “I really feel vindicated,” former Gov. Cuomo aide Charlotte Bennett tells @NorahODonnell after New York’s legal professional basic stated she believed the ladies who got here ahead saying that they had been sexually harassed by the governor. pic.twitter.com/O6Iwjndwo8
— CBS Night Information (@CBSEveningNews) August 3, 2021
Charlotte Bennett labored briefly as a an aide for Cuomo. He allegedly requested her questions on if she’d date older males, asking her assist to discover a girlfriend, and apparently quizzing her on a sexual assault she had endured
One of many different feedback that he made was that he needed to trip into the mountains with girls.
Bennett had a pleasant relationship with Cuomo as a result of their mutual ties to Westchester County, and noticed him as a mentor.
Charlotte Bennett made notes about her expertise working with Cuomo which she gave to investigators
In an interview earlier this yr, Bennett stated her first awkward dialog with Cuomo occurred on Could 15, 2020.
The report included textual content messages between Charlotte Bennett and one other aide, and conversations she had along with her mother and father the place she had she had a ‘nice dialog’ with the ‘Governor’, and others the place she says he made her really feel uncomfortable.
‘The governor invited me to elevate weights with him,’ she wrote in a single message. ‘He challenged me to a push-up competitors’.
She had informed her mother and father how he was shocked to be taught that she lifted weights and boxed, and that he had requested her to do push-ups within the workplace.
In one other textual content chain she stated Cuomo ‘talked about age distinction in relationships,’ calling his feedback ‘express’.
Charlotte Bennett noticed Cuomo as a mentor, however she says he was clear he needed extra
The report additionally included messages through which Bennett tells a confidant that she was extremely uncomfortable following an interplay within the workplace. Bennett stated she was ‘shaking’ and ‘so upset and so confused’.
In texts to a different aide, Bennett stated Cuomo repeated to her ‘again and again’ that she had been ‘raped’.
Cuomo was additionally recorded singing the favored Nineteen Sixties love track Do You Love Me?, by the Contours, to Bennett throughout a telephone name in 2019.
Based on the New York Post, Bennett initiated the telephone name saying, ‘Hello, governor. That is Charlotte’.
Cuomo allegedly answered the decision with ‘Are you prepared? Doo, doo, doo,’ and proceeded to ask her if she was accustomed to the track.
Bennett informed him the track was ‘earlier than her time’.
Cuomo allegedly continued singing, ‘Do you’re keen on me? Do you actually love me? Do you’re keen on me? Do you care?’
Virginia Limmiatis
Virginia Limmiatis labored for Nationwide Grid and was carrying a t-shirt with the corporate’s identify written throughout her chest when she says she met Cuomo.
Virginia Limmiatis labored for the Nationwide Grid when Cuomo allegedly groped her
He ran his ‘two fingers throughout her chest, urgent down on every of the letters as he did so and studying out the identify of the corporate as he went’.
The report says he then ‘leaned in, together with his face near her cheek, and stated ‘I’ll say I see a spider in your shoulder’ earlier than brushing the world between her shoulder and her breasts’.
‘Ms. Limmiatis got here ahead on this investigation after she heard the governor state, in the course of the March 3, 2021 press convention, that he had by no means touched anybody inappropriately.
‘As Ms. Limmiatis testified to us, ‘He’s mendacity once more. He touched me inappropriately. I’m compelled to return ahead to inform the reality… I did not know methods to report what he did to me on the time and was burdened by disgrace, however not coming ahead now would make me complicit in his lie, and I will not do it.”
Alyssa McGrath
McGrath, 35, was the primary present worker to accuse Cuomo, and works as an government assistant.
‘In his interactions with one other government assistant, Alyssa McGrath, the Governor made inappropriate feedback and engaged in harassing conduct, together with: often asking about her private life, together with her marital standing and divorce; asking whether or not Ms. McGrath would inform on Government Assistant #1 if she had been to cheat on her husband – and whether or not Ms. McGrath herself deliberate to ‘mingle’ with males’.
She additionally claimed he regarded down her shirt to go with her on her necklace, informed her that she’s lovely in Italian and kissed her on the brow throughout an workplace Christmas celebration in 2019.
Alyssa McGrath was quizzed by Cuomo about her marital standing and divorce and kissed on the brow by Cuomo at an workplace Christmas celebration
Her legal professional, Mariann Wang, stated on Tuesday that McGrath and one other accuser she represents, Virginia Limmiatis, had been relieved.
The 2 girls ‘really feel profoundly grateful to the AG’s group for taking this significantly and analyzing their stories totally and thoroughly.’
Wang continued: ‘Cuomo’s misogyny and abuse can’t be denied. He has been doing this for years, with none repercussions.
‘He shouldn’t be accountable for our authorities and shouldn’t be in any place of energy over anybody else.’
‘Kaitlin’
Kaitlin – whose second identify isn’t public – met the governor in 2016 at a fundraising occasion the place they had been photographed collectively in a dance pose.
Afterwards, she was employed by him in a junior place however given a wage of $120,000 – a determine so excessive she says it was laughed at in her interview.
Ana Liss
Liss, 35, labored within the Government Chamber between 2013 and 2015, throughout which period she says the governor subjected her to sexual harassment that included being referred to as ‘sweetheart’ and ‘darling’, and putting his hand round her decrease waist.
Ana Liss (pictured) labored within the Government Chamber between 2013 and 2015, throughout which period she says the governor subjected her to sexual harassment that included being referred to as ‘sweetheart’ and ‘darling’, and putting his hand round her decrease waist
He additionally kissed her arms and cheek, she stated.
Regardless of feeling uncomfortable, she says she didn’t report them as a result of ‘for no matter purpose, in his workplace the principles had been completely different.’
She added: ‘It was simply, you need to view it as a praise if the Governor finds you aesthetically pleasing sufficient, if he finds you attention-grabbing sufficient to ask questions like that.
‘And so although it was unusual and uncomfortable and technically not permissible in a typical office surroundings, I used to be on this mindset that it was the twilight zone and…the standard guidelines didn’t apply.’
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Anna Ruch
Ruch was a visitor at a marriage, as was the governor, in 2019 when she says he put his arms on a piece of her again that was uncovered by a cut-out in her costume.
She grabbed his wrist to maneuver it away and he responded by saying ‘wow, you are aggressive,’ based on the report.
Cuomo then grabbed her face with each of his arms and stated ‘can I kiss you?’
He was pictured kissing her cheek.
Anna Ruch was a visitor at a marriage, as was Cuomo, in 2019. She says he put his arms on a piece of her again that was uncovered by a cut-out in her costume
Karen Hinton
Karen Hinton, 62, spoke to the Washington Post about an incident through which Cuomo summoned her to his ‘dimly lit’ lodge room and embraced her after a piece occasion in 2000.
She was not among the many 11 girls on who the legal professional basic primarily based her report.
Hinton stated that she tried to tug away from Cuomo, however that he pulled her again and held her earlier than she backed away and escaped the room.
Peter Ajemian, Cuomo’s director of communications, informed the Submit that Hinton is a ‘recognized antagonist of the Governor’s who’s making an attempt to make the most of this second to attain low cost factors with made up allegations from 21 years in the past’.
‘All girls have the correct to return ahead and inform their story — nevertheless, it is also the accountability of the press to contemplate self-motivation. That is reckless,’ he added.
Karen Hinton, 62, (pictured above) claims the governor summoned her to his ‘dimly lit’ lodge room and embraced her after a piece occasion in 2000 earlier than she managed to flee
In response, Hinton informed the Submit that ‘attacking the accuser is the traditional playbook of highly effective males attempting to guard themselves’ as she stated that watching Cuomo’s apologetic press convention ‘drove me loopy’.
‘I actually thought the flirt wasn’t about having intercourse,’ Hinton stated. ‘It was about controlling the connection.’
On the time of the alleged encounter within the lodge room, Cuomo would have been main the U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth and Hinton was a advisor after transferring to California.
The Submit stories that Hinton and Cuomo have a contentious previous and that that they had a significant blow up earlier than she left the company in 1999, remaining on as a advisor.
She had joined Cuomo in Los Angeles to advertise a HUD program and later had dinner in his lodge earlier than allegedly receiving a telephone name from him stating: ‘Why do not you come to my room and let’s catch up?’
Hinton stated that she started to suppose it was uncommon when Cuomo requested her to keep away from being seen by Clarence Day, his longtime head of safety, however that she continued to his room anyway.
‘I paused for a second,’ she informed the Submit about noticing the low lights within the room. ‘Why are the lights so low? He by no means retains the lights this low.’
Hinton stated they sat on reverse couches and talked about their work at HUD and that Cuomo requested her private questions on her life and marriage – together with if she would depart her husband.
She claims that she grew self-conscious after talking a lot about herself and went to depart.
‘I get up and say, ‘It is getting late, I have to go,’ ‘ she stated, describing the embrace Cuomo gave her as ‘very lengthy, too lengthy, too tight, too intimate’.
‘He pulls me again for an additional intimate embrace,’ she stated. ‘I assumed at that second it may result in a kiss, it may result in different issues, so I simply draw back once more, and I depart.’
Hinton informed the Submit that she seen the transfer as a ‘energy play’ for ‘manipulation and management’ and that the pair by no means mentioned the incident once more, though they’ve remained in contact.
She has each publicly praised Cuomo and been vital of him, particularly when working as press secretary in 2015 and 2016 for New York Mayor Invoice de Blasio, with whom the governor has an intense rivalry.
The Submit spoke to 2 individuals who confirmed that Hinton had informed them in regards to the lodge incident after it occurred.
