NEW YORK – The situation becomes complicated for the former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, forced to resign last August due to allegations of sexual harassment by 11 women. In fact, a complaint was presented to the court of Albany, the state capital, for the sexual offense of “groping” against the will of the alleged victim: if he is convicted, Cuomo risks up to one year in prison and up to three years of probation. .
This was reported by some US media, including the New York Times, stating that he was summoned by the Albany court to appear on the afternoon of November 17. Cuomo has consistently denied the allegations, and his attorney Rita Glavin reiterated that “the governor never assaulted anyone”: “The motives of Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple,” whose investigator signed the criminal complaint, ” they are clearly improper “. “This is not a professional application of the law – added the lawyer – this is political”.
In the copy of the filed documents, obtained by the media, the name of the alleged victim was obscured, but investigators previously said they were investigating a complaint filed in August by a woman on Cuomo’s staff. Woman identified in the report by the state attorney, Letitia James, under the pseudonym “Executive Assistant # 1”. Later, a woman named Brittany Commisso came forward publicly claiming that she was the former assistant assaulted.
The papers therefore state that on 7 December last year, in the official residence of the governor, the 63-year-old member of the Democratic party intentionally “and for no legitimate reason forcibly put his hand under the victim’s blouse and on an intimate part of his body, especially the left breast “.
Meanwhile, Cuomo’s spokesperson, Rich Azzopardi, has returned to point the finger at the prosecutor James, Cuomo’s great accuser, who in these days should announce his candidacy for the role of governor of New York. “The prosecutor plays politics, and maybe even worse,” says the spokesperson who jokes about James calling her “cowboy sheriff”: “But the truth about what really happened will come out.”
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