He who had been forced to resign this summer, is accused of “forced switch” on an old employee. An investigation report, published in August, showed many cases of harassed women or sexually assaulted.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
After the resignation, the Cuomo affair takes a new stage: the former Governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, was charged on Thursday, October 28, before a court for sexual assault on a former employee.
“A complaint for offense against the former Governor Andrew Cuomo was filed at the Albany Municipal Tribunal,” said France-Presse Agency (AFP) a spokesman for the state of New York, stating that it was a sexual affair.
Distributed by several media, the complaint dated Thursday and from the Sheriff office of Albany County, accuses the former governor of “forced attachment” on December 7, 2020, at his official residence in Albany, the capital of State. A statement from the Sheriff’s Office specifies that a criminal assignment orders Mr. Cuomo to appear before the court of Albany on 17 November.
Confusion
The filing of this complaint is confusing. The County Prosecutor’s Office, David Soares, who takes part in the investigation and manages any prosecution, announced that they have been caught off guard. “As the rest of the public, we were surprised to learn today that a criminal complaint had been tabled in the Albany Municipal Court by the Albany County Sheriff’s office against Andrew Cuomo”, A-T -He declared.
Rita Glavin, Counsel for Andrew Cuomo, denounces a “political act” led by Craig Apple, the Sheriff of Albany County, to his client.
The name of the complainant was not communicated but Mr. Cuomo was publicly accused of having sexually assaulted an assistant, Britanny Commission, at his Albany residence on the date indicated in the complaint.
M me commissiono had stated that the governor of the time had caught him while preparing to leave. When she told him, “You will attract us in trouble,” he would have answered it “I do not care,” and slammed the door. He would have slipped his hand into the blouse to catch his chest.
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Since several months by older employees, the 63-year-old Governor has announced his resignation on August 10, one week after the publication of an overwhelming investigation report listing eleven women harassed or sexually assaulted.
A vertiginous fall for the one who governed the fourth state of the country (about 20 million inhabitants) since 2011 and aimed a fourth term in 2022.
At the height of the Pandemic Due to Covid-19, when New York was the US epicenter in the spring of 2020, he had acquired the status of national star. With its daily, rational and reassuring press points, this experienced but renowned and authoritarian policy had changed its dimension, embodying the antithesis of Donald Trump, whose ads on the sanitary crisis were seen as erratic.
His interventions had been greeted by the Academy of Television, which had given him an Emmy. But the instance announced, at the end of August, that it withdrew the statuette.