Albany sheriff to discuss groping complaint against Cuomo

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo talks connected the telephone portion walking with his canine Captain astatine the New York authorities Executive Mansion, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, successful Albany, N.Y. An probe recovered that Cuomo sexually harassed aggregate women successful and retired of authorities government. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

ALBANY, N.Y. – The Albany County sheriff plans to clasp a quality league Saturday to sermon a transgression ailment his bureau received this week from an adjutant who says New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo groped her bosom astatine the governor's authorities residence.

Sheriff Craig Apple said connected Twitter that “no reports volition beryllium released and details volition beryllium limited” astatine the 12 p.m. quality conference. "Please recognize this is an progressive investigation," helium said.

The ailment is the archetypal known lawsuit wherever a pistillate has made an authoritative study with a instrumentality enforcement bureau implicit alleged misconduct by Cuomo. The sheriff's bureau has said the Democratic politician could beryllium arrested if investigators oregon the region territory lawyer find helium committed a crime.

The adjutant who filed the study has accused Cuomo of reaching nether her garment and fondling her erstwhile they were unsocial successful a country astatine the Executive Mansion past year. The pistillate besides told investigators with the lawyer general’s bureau that Cuomo erstwhile rubbed her rear extremity portion they were posing unneurotic for a photo.

Cuomo’s lawyer, Rita Glavin, has said the groping allegation was fabricated.

“He is 63 years old. He has spent 40 years successful nationalist beingness and for him to each of the abrupt beryllium accused of a intersexual battle of an enforcement adjunct that helium truly doesn’t know, doesn’t walk muster,” Glavin said.

Cuomo has faced renewed calls to measurement down aft an autarkic probe overseen by the authorities lawyer general’s bureau concluded helium sexually harassed 11 women and worked to retaliate against 1 of his accusers.

The lawyer general’s study describes a bid of times Cuomo allegedly acted inappropriately with the adjutant described arsenic Executive Assistant #1, culminating with the groping brushwood astatine the mansion successful November 2020.

According to the woman, Cuomo pulled her successful for a hug arsenic she prepared to permission the governor’s bureau astatine the mansion. Told that “you’re going to get america successful trouble,” Cuomo replied, “I don’t care,” and slammed the doorway shut. He slid his manus up her blouse, and grabbed her bosom implicit her bra, according to her account.

“I person to archer you, it was — astatine the moment, I was successful specified daze that I could conscionable archer you that I conscionable retrieve looking down seeing his hand, seeing the apical of my bra,” she told investigators.

She said she pulled distant from Cuomo, telling him “You’re crazy.”

Cuomo has adamantly denied touching her breasts, saying “I would person to suffer my caput to bash specified a thing.”

The authorities Assembly’s judiciary committee plans to conscionable Monday to sermon the anticipation of impeachment proceedings against Cuomo. Nearly two-thirds of the legislative assemblage person already said they favour an impeachment proceedings if helium won’t resign.

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