The New York Times Ex-Aide Details Sexual Harassment Claims Against Gov. Cuomo

[oeb11]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ex...UAa?li=BBnb7Kz





ALBANY, N.Y. — A former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo published a lengthy essay on Wednesday morning accusing the governor of sexual harassment and outlining several unsettling episodes, including an unsolicited kiss in his Manhattan office.
© Rob Latour/Shutterstock Lindsey Boylan, now a candidate for Manhattan borough president, accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of going “out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs.” The aide, Lindsey Boylan, described several years of uncomfortable interactions with Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, including an invitation to play strip poker on a government airplane and an email from another top aide suggesting that the governor thought she was a “better looking sister” of another woman.
© Pool photo by Seth Wenig Mr. Cuomo has denied Ms. Boylan's allegations of sexual harassment, saying in December that the claims were “just not true.” Ms. Boylan, who worked for the state's economic development agency at the time, published that email from December 2016, and said the governor began calling her the other woman’s name in professional settings, an experience she described as “degrading.”

Ms. Boylan, who is running for Manhattan borough president, first publicly accused the governor of sexual harassment in December, in a series of remarks on Twitter. At the time, Ms. Boylan did not speak to the media, offer details of the alleged harassment or provide corroboration.
On Wednesday, however, Ms. Boylan wrote that she had told her husband and mother of her concerns about the governor. She also offered new details, including describing an incident in 2018 when she said that she and Mr. Cuomo were alone in his Manhattan office.
“As I got up to leave and walk toward an open door, he stepped in front of me and kissed me on the lips,” Ms. Boylan wrote. “I was in shock, but I kept walking.”
When Ms. Boylan first went public in December, the governor vehemently denied the accusations.
“Look, I fought for and I believe a woman has the right to come forward and express her opinion and express issues and concerns that she has,” Mr. Cuomo said during a news conference last year. “But it’s just not true.”
His office on Wednesday did not immediately return requests for comment.
Ms. Boylan wrote that in her early days working for the Cuomo administration, her boss at Empire State Development had once told her that “the governor had a ‘crush’ on me,” adding that Mr. Cuomo had gone “out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs.”
“His senior staff began keeping tabs on my whereabouts,” she wrote, publishing an email from 2016, in which a top aide to Mr. Cuomo asked Ms. Boylan’s boss if she was going to be attending an event.
The attention from the governor also included a private invitation to his office in late 2016, Ms. Boylan said, when she says he showed her a cigar box Mr. Cuomo said he received from President Bill Clinton when he served in his administration, as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
“The two-decade-old reference to President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky was not lost on me,” she said.
In 2017, Ms. Boylan wrote that the governor joked that they should play strip poker while on a flight, in close quarters, an episode she said was witnessed by a press aide and a state trooper.
Ms. Boylan said she replied: “That’s exactly what I was thinking,” in a sarcastic manner.
“I tried to play it cool,” she wrote in the essay, which was published on Medium. “But in that moment, I realized just how acquiescent I had become.”
Ms. Boylan’s allegations come as Mr. Cuomo faces one of the most turbulent moments of his decade-long tenure.
The governor came under fire this month after his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, disclosed in a private meeting with state lawmakers that the administration had withheld data on the full extent of deaths of nursing home residents during the pandemic.
The revelation immediately roiled his administration, leading federal prosecutors to open an investigation and state lawmakers to consider stripping Mr. Cuomo of his pandemic emergency powers.
The governor’s conduct has also faced renewed scrutiny after Ron Kim, a Queens assemblyman, said Mr. Cuomo had threatened to “destroy” him in a phone call after Mr. Kim publicly criticized his administration’s handling of the nursing home controversy. The governor’s office called Mr. Kim a liar, while Mr. Cuomo went on to publicly attack Mr. Kim during one of his coronavirus briefings.
On Monday, The New York Times reported on the governor’s longstanding tendency toward aggression and instances in which he has berated aides, bullied elected officials and threatened political opponents over the years. Some former staffers described the governor’s office as a toxic workplace and Mr. Cuomo, 63, as a demanding and controlling boss who governs by fear and retribution.
Unlike previous crises that Mr. Cuomo has weathered — from the conviction of close associates to his abrupt disbandment of a commission investigating public corruption — the nursing home scandal and reports of his private behavior have begun to spread beyond Albany’s political confines.
Over the weekend, the nursing home controversy even got several mentions on “Saturday Night Live,” including a skit where Mr. Cuomo was portrayed by the comedian Pete Davidson, sheepishly acknowledging the “nursing home stuff.”
Ms. Boylan joined the Cuomo administration as a top aide at Empire State Development in 2015 before taking a job as a special adviser to the governor in 2018, something she said she did with a precondition that she would keep her old office and “remain on a separate floor from him and his inner circle.”
After the unwanted kiss, Ms. Boylan says her “fears worsened,” and her work relationships with female members of his senior team “grew hostile.”
“I was reprimanded and told to get in line by his top aides, but I could no longer ignore it,” she wrote.
Ms. Boylan, 36, left the administration in late 2018. She did not return a request for comment via phone or text.
“Telling my truth isn’t about seeking revenge. I was proud to work in the Cuomo administration. For so long I had looked up to the governor,” she wrote. “But his abusive behavior needs to stop.”


and - where are all the anti-Kavanaugh accusers, and #metoo women 'who must be believed' when accusations are made - except against DPST/ccp poobahs?????
Silent in complicity, that is whee!

[nevergaveitathought]

the night of the long knives has returned

makes me wonder why

someone must think cuomo is in the way

is aoc contemplating a governorship?

but I must add, ive been sexually harassed worse than what has been detailed in her claims

[reddog1951]

Why is anyone one a hooker board surprised by any claim of sexual harassment against any man in a position of power? Dem or Rep, goes with the territory. We're the least entitled to berate.

[oeb11]

Comment - 'r' - A mutually agreed P4P transaction between adults - is hardly the same as 'sexual harassment" by a person in a position of power over that person. A person seeking sexual favors for free by virtue of that authority.

Bottom Line - the seller has teh power- to sell, or not to sell. Is that 'sexual harassment' of the 'buyer'????


If One believes that the acts are equivalent - - One should either not be in the 'hobby' - or acknowledge that every transaction is sex trafficking, harassment, and turn Oneself in to the authorities.


Agreed - it happens Regardless of Party, and Gender.

[Jackie S]

Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

the night of the long knives has returned

makes me wonder why

someone must think cuomo is in the way

is aoc contemplating a governorship?

but I must add, ive been sexually harassed worse than what has been detailed in her claims

Quomo is a real piece of shit,but not in this case. He’s just a lech.

I agree that ther ar those in the Democrat Party that smell blood in the water and see an opening to oust Cuomo and put in someone worse.

How does Governor Bill DeBlassio sound?

That could open the door for Mayor Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

[lickitclean]

Originally Posted by Jackie S

Quomo is a real piece of shit,but not in this case. He’s just a lech.

I agree that ther ar those in the Democrat Party that smell blood in the water and see an opening to oust Cuomo and put in someone worse.

How does Governor Bill DeBlassio sound?

That could open the door for Mayor Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.

Another stupid opinion from a dumb fuck hick from Texas. AOC doesn't want to be mayor you stupid corn fed moron. She's gonna be president of this country someday! And by the way, she just raised 5 million to help your ass backward state! You should thank her for that. Or maybe you were not aware? Did you take a trip with flying Ted?

[oeb11]

Hmmm - Is this a another handle for little monster????
Same disgusting type of communication style

elitist, arrogant, name-calling, insulting, demeaning, demonizing, and with a Grand Superiority complex!


'Right' in line with the Goebbles propaganda and the National socialist party whipping boy - the Jewish people.
Planning on sending millions to the AOC 're-education camps' 'l'????

[rexdutchman]

The elitist cant cover for the shithead any longer so in stead of like charging him with murder they gonna "fire " him for the me too shit to save face ( for the leftist movement)

[Ripmany]

I thought you I hear they both are dead people so what

[rexdutchman]

^^ a little less ( fill in the blank) Wow