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https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/more-than-55-ny-democrats-call-on-andrew-cuomo-to-resign/

More than 55 Democratic state legislators called Thursday for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign — and the Assembly speaker said he would hold a meeting later in the day “on potential paths forward.”

The statement from Cuomo’s fellow Democrats cited both the spiraling sexual harassment allegations against him and the cover-up of the total nursing home death toll and said that “he has lost the confidence of the public and the state legislature, rendering him ineffective in this time of most urgent need.”

“We have a Lieutenant Governor who can step in and lead for the remainder of the term, and this is what is best for New Yorkers in this critical time,” the statement added.”

“It is time for Governor Cuomo to resign.”

In response, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) said, “In light of the allegations concerning the Governor over the last several weeks, I will be meeting with members in conference today on potential paths forward.”

Cuomo has faced mounting calls to resign or face impeachment as the twin scandals have intensified amid a seemingly endless parade of new revelations and allegations.

The latest bombshell landed Wednesday when a report alleged that a female Cuomo staffer claims Cuomo put his hands under her blouse and groped her late last year in the Executive Mansion in Albany.

Gov. Cuomo reportedly reached under aide’s blouse and groped her

 

That report led Mayor Bill de Blasio to say on Thursday that Cuomo “can no longer serve as governor anymore,” after having previously ducked repeated questions about whether he thought Cuomo should resign.

“It’s not one, it’s not two, it’s not three, it’s not four, it’s not five. It’s six women coming forward,” de Blasio told reporters during his daily City Hall news conference.

The incident reported Wednesday by the Albany Times Union allegedly took place after the woman was summoned to Cuomo’s heavily guarded, official residence to help him fix a problem with his cellphone.

The incident allegedly took place after the woman was summoned to Cuomo’s heavily guarded official residence to help him fix a problem with his cellphone, the Albany Times Union reported.

The paper said it was withholding the woman’s name but described her as much younger than the 63-year-old governor.

The sexual misconduct allegations are the most serious to emerge since a former Cuomo aide, Lindsey Boylan, 36, accused him of sexual harassment in December.

Boylan, now a Democratic candidate for Manhattan borough president, didn’t initially detail her claims but last month published an online essay that alleged Cuomo unexpectedly kissed her “on the lips” during a 2018 meeting in his Manhattan office.

 

That led four other women — including three former aides — to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior dating to 2000, when he was President Bill Clinton’s housing secretary.

The sexual harassment and related allegations against Cuomo are under investigation by a team of outside lawyers — including former acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim — who were hired Monday by state Attorney General Letitia James.

The FBI and the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office have also launched a probe into the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, sources familiar with the matter have told The Post.

Under the New York Constitution, impeaching Cuomo would require a simple majority vote of the 150-member state Assembly, which is composed of 106 Democrats, 43 Republicans and one independent.

 

A resolution to impeach Cuomo was introduced earlier this week by Republican members of the Assembly, with Minority Leader Will Barclay (R-Oswego) saying that “we believe the time has come” to oust the three-term governor.

Cuomo’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment on Thursday, but on Wednesday evening the governor — who has repeatedly insisted that “I never touched anyone inappropriately” — issued a statement denying the groping allegations.

“As I said yesterday, I have never done anything like this. The details of this report are gut-wrenching,” Cuomo said.

“I am not going to speak to the specifics of this or any other allegation given the ongoing review, but I am confident in the result of the Attorney General’s report.”

 Cuomo has pledged to cooperate with the probe and urged New Yorkers to withhold judgment pending its findings.

 

Oh come on - It's not like he said something like - you could grab a girl by the pussy if your rich......He only did it.....

 

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https://apnews.com/article/dozens-democrats-demand-andrew-cuomo-resignation-71adbd6f2420a4dc71856428f3663857

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s grip on power appeared increasingly threatened Thursday as a majority of state legislators called for his resignation, Democrats launched an impeachment investigation and police in the state capital said they stood ready to investigate a groping allegation.

The firestorm around the Democrat grew a day after the Times Union of Albany reported that an unidentified aide had claimed Cuomo reached under her shirt and fondled her at his official residence late last year.

The woman hasn’t filed a criminal complaint, but a lawyer for the governor said Thursday that the state had reported the allegation to the Albany Police Department after the woman involved declined to do so herself.

“In this case the person is represented by counsel and when counsel confirmed the client did not want to make a report, the state notified the police department and gave them the attorney’s information,” said Beth Garvey, the governor’s acting counsel.

An Albany Police Department spokesperson, Steve Smith, didn’t immediately return a message from The Associated Press, but told The New York Times police had reached out to a representative for the woman.

The possible involvement of police comes as more lawmakers called on Cuomo to resign over alleged misconduct with women and allegations that his administration concealed how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19.

At least 121 members of the state Assembly and Senate have said publicly they believe Cuomo should quit office now, according to a tally by The Associated Press. The count includes 65 Democrats and 56 Republicans.

The top Democrat in the state Assembly, Speaker Carl Heastie, on Thursday backed a plan for its judiciary committee to launch an impeachment investigation.

The committee can interview witnesses and subpoena documents and its inquiry could be wide-ranging: from alleged sexual misconduct to COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes. It won’t interfere with a separate inquiry of sexual harassment allegations being conducted by state Attorney General Letitia James, according to Heastie and James.

“The legislature needs to determine for itself what the facts are,” a member of the committee, Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, said. “For the people who want immediate impeachment, I think we say please be patient. The process is slow. This could be the next step.”

In New York, the Assembly is the legislative house that could move to impeach Cuomo, who faces multiple allegations that he made the workplace an uncomfortable place for young women with sexually suggestive remarks and behavior, including unwanted touching and a kiss. One aide claimed the governor’s aides publicly smeared her after she accused him of sexual harassment.

“All of us are extremely disappointed,” Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, a Democrat representing Orange and Sullivan counties, told The Associated Press. “I think there’s no room in the world right now for that kind of behavior. He should have known better.”

Gunther on Thursday became the ninth Assembly Democrat saying they’d vote for impeachment, alongside at least 37 Republicans.

Cuomo’s support in the state Senate was especially thin. Roughly two-thirds of its members have called for the Democrat’s resignation, including Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins.

A group of 59 Democrats, including 19 senators and 40 Assembly members said in a letter Thursday that it’s time for Cuomo to go.

“In light of the governor’s admission of inappropriate behavior and the findings of altered data on nursing home COVID-19 deaths he has lost the confidence of the public and the state legislature, rendering him ineffective in this time of most urgent need,” the letter said. “It is time for Gov. Cuomo to resign.”

Cuomo has repeatedly said he won’t resign and urged the public to await the outcome of the attorney general’s investigation.

Asked for comment Thursday, Cuomo’s office referred reporters to previous statements in which the governor denied inappropriately touching anyone, but apologized for some comments he made to female staffers. He’s said he was trying to engage in playful banter and didn’t intend to make people uncomfortable.

In the newest allegation against Cuomo, the Times Union of Albany reported that the governor had summoned the aide to his Albany mansion, saying he needed help with his cellphone. After she arrived, Cuomo closed the door, reached under her shirt and fondled her, the newspaper reported.

The newspaper’s reporting was based on an unidentified source with knowledge of the woman’s accusation, who said she first told the story to someone on Cuomo’s staff in recent days. The newspaper hadn’t spoken to the woman and didn’t identify her.

“I have never done anything like this,” Cuomo said through a spokesperson Wednesday evening.

According to the Times Union account, one of the woman’s supervisors told an attorney in the governor’s office about her account Monday. The report to Albany police was made Wednesday, after the newspaper had posted its story.

Federal investigators are also scrutinizing how the Cuomo administration has handled data about how many nursing home residents have died of COVID-19. The governor and his aides argued for months that it couldn’t release full figures on deaths because it had yet to verify the data.

The state Assembly has 150 members. It could convene an impeachment trial against Cuomo with a simple majority vote. The state Senate, which would join with members of the state’s top appeals court to hold an impeachment trial, has 63 members.

It appears he may pull this off.  He will have succeeded in becoming known as "Cuomo the Creeper" instead of the "Cuomo the Granny Killer" pretty efficiently...... (pretty much only one sentence about that investigation in this whole story)

 

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After hearing excerpts from Cuomo's "Press Briefing" today, I don't think he realizes his usefulness to the Democrat party is over.  (COVID is over, Trump is gone)  They aren't even trying  to circle the wagons like they normally do around their guy. 

(IMHO) I think he thinks he can fight this and come out of it, but the reality is that the more he fights it the more he stays overtly exposed to the "Granny-Gate" investigation on top of his harassments allegations.  I have to think he may be going down, but he's certainly going down swinging.  The question in my mind becomes - If/when he realizes he has been abandoned by his cronies, who is he gonna bring down with him?  Or how much will they pay for his silence and cooperation?  Or will he get suicided?

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14 hours ago, swordfish said:

After hearing excerpts from Cuomo's "Press Briefing" today, I don't think he realizes his usefulness to the Democrat party is over.  (COVID is over, Trump is gone)  They aren't even trying  to circle the wagons like they normally do around their guy. 

(IMHO) I think he thinks he can fight this and come out of it, but the reality is that the more he fights it the more he stays overtly exposed to the "Granny-Gate" investigation on top of his harassments allegations.  I have to think he may be going down, but he's certainly going down swinging.  The question in my mind becomes - If/when he realizes he has been abandoned by his cronies, who is he gonna bring down with him?  Or how much will they pay for his silence and cooperation?  Or will he get suicided?

I’m a big fan of irony ... and the irony in Cuomo’s situations is so thick you can cut it with a knife.

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https://nypost.com/2021/04/07/bill-repealing-nursing-home-covid-19-liability-protections-approved-by-cuomo/

Governor Cuomo repealed a controversial law that shielded nursing homes and other essential businesses from coronavirus related lawsuits Tuesday night.

The measure rolled back the “Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act,” which granted health care facilities and workers liability immunity from negligence suits, and comes as Cuomo’s administration is under federal investigation for covering up some 9,000 COVID-19 related nursing home deaths last year.

The scandal — exclusively revealed by The Post — weakened Cuomo politically and led to calls for him to resign as sexual harassment accusations against him swirled in the wake of the report.

“As we near the passage of this year’s momentous budget, I am relieved to see corporate immunity, which was slipped into last year’s budget, fully repealed,” Bronx State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, one of the bill’s sponsor said in a statement Tuesday night.

“This blanket immunity prevented thousands of families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 from seeking legal recourse, and potentially incentivized nursing home executives to cut corners — endangering staff and residents.”

“The corporate immunity provision was a license to kill,” the Democrat previously told The Post

Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim also co-sponsored the bill. Kim — whose uncle died of the coronavirus in a nursing home — said Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, threatened to “destroy” him, if he did not help the governor contain the damage of the death coverup.

“’I can tell the whole world what a bad person you are and you will be finished,’” Kim said the governor told him in February.

The law was passed despite opposition by the powerful Greater New York Hospital Association lobby.

The measure is one of ten bills the Democrat-led Senate has spearheaded to bolster accountability and oversight of nursing homes and the health department in the wake of the scandal.

Well this is getting interesting.......

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https://nypost.com/2021/05/02/even-bigger-lies-by-cuomo-to-cover-up-nursing-home-scandal/

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo was securing a reported $4 million deal to write a book on his pandemic “leadership,” he and his staff were busy suppressing the truth about New York’s nursing-home deaths in the wake of the March 25 order that forced homes to admit COVID-contagious patients. And it now turns out the coverup was even worse than we’d thought.

On top of blocking health officials from telling the truth, senior staffers also quashed a scientific paper that reported the true fatality total, The New York Times reported.

A June 18 e-mail from top aide Melissa DeRosa to health officials shows Team Cuomo was “anxious” about a pending Department of Health report on nursing-home coronavirus fatalities and out to downplay the idea that the March 25 mandate had proved deadly.

The Cuomoites were publicly citing a nursing-home death toll of about 6,000 by ignoring home residents who’d died while hospitalized. The draft report shared the full count of over 9,700, noting that the homes accounted for “approximately 35 percent” of all NY coronavirus deaths. But DeRosa — who at the same time was intimately involved in the gov’s book-deal negotiations — and other staff got all that edited out. The final report said the homes only yielded 21 percent of the state’s virus death total, making it seem below, rather than above, the US average.

Cuomo, the Times reports, acknowledged in an October call with DeRosa, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker and others that the full figures would have to come out eventually. But by then he’d already scored his fat book advance.

For months, Zucker and others refused to release the full info, pretending that they needed to check the data first. After the truth came out, DeRosa privately told  Democratic legislators Team Cuomo withheld the truth out of fear of a probe by the Trump Justice Department — a provable lie, since the coverup began long before the feds started sniffing.

Cuomo, meanwhile, has fallen back on the first lie, again claiming last Thursday that “the concern for the state was that we provide accurate numbers.”

Give it up, governor: Your blatant dishonesty is an insult to the dead, and it won’t save your skin.

Crafty Cuomo is back in the news.  Still wondering which scandal will be his downfall, "Granny Killer" or "Handsy Andy"

 

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https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/andrew-cuomo-calls-critics-of-5m-covid-book-deal-stupid/

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday called the grieving New Yorkers upset over his $5.1 million book deal “stupid” for suggesting he profited from their relatives’ deaths with his pandemic memoir.

During a news conference in Buffalo, Cuomo was asked by a reporter to respond to the “allegations out there that you made money on the backs of dead people.”

“That’s stupid,” the governor snapped.

“Next question.”

Cuomo later tried to walk back the insult, telling the reporter, “I thought your question was stupid and offensive.”

The details of Cuomo’s book deal — revealed in tax returns he released Monday — sparked a firestorm of outrage from New Yorkers whose loved ones died of COVID-19 in nursing homes after the Health Department ordered the facilities to accept infected patients discharged from hospitals.

Tracey Alvino, whose dad died after contracting the coronavirus in a Long Island nursing home, accused Cuomo of pocketing “blood money” through his lucrative contract for “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

“These resources could have been used to fight the pandemic instead of giving him a payday,” Alvino told The Post.

On Thursday, Vivian Zayas, founder of the advocacy group Voices for Seniors, called Cuomo “so defiant and arrogant,” and threw his snub back at him.

“It was stupid that he defied science by putting sick people in nursing homes with vulnerable elderly and immune-compromised residents,” she said.

“He made a stupid decision and won’t own up to it.”

Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay (R-Syracuse) said the Democratic governor “continues to be completely dismissive and disrespectful to the individuals who paid the greatest price during the pandemic.”

“While people mourned the loss of loved ones, he lined his pockets with a $5.1 million book deal,” Barclay said.

“To categorize any criticism of that as ‘stupid’ illustrates his refusal to accept accountability of any kind.”

 

Well that was stupid to say....

 

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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/03/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-sexual-harassment-report.html

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women and then retaliated against a former employee who complained publicly about his conduct, according to a bombshell report released Tuesday by state Attorney General Letitia James.

The monthslong probe concluded that Cuomo “sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law,” James said at a press conference. Her office noted, however, that there were no specific penalties tied to the report.

The 165-page report, which comprises interviews with 179 witnesses and a review of tens of thousands of documents, also said that Cuomo’s office was riddled with fear and intimidation and was a hostile work environment for many staffers.08

Cuomo harassed members of his own staff, members of the public and other state employees, one of whom was a state trooper on his protective detail, the report alleges. He engaged in nonconsensual touching, groping, kissing and hugging, and made inappropriate comments toward numerous women, according to the report.

It also concluded that the governor’s denials “lack credibility” and were “inconsistent with the weight of the evidence” gathered throughout the probe.

A somber but defiant Cuomo strongly denied some of the allegations against him later Tuesday and said that other examples of his alleged misconduct had been mischaracterized or misinterpreted.

The findings reveal “a deeply disturbing, yet clear, picture,” James said, describing Cuomo’s office as “a toxic workplace.”

The announcement came about two weeks after Cuomo was interviewed by investigators retained by James’ office for the probe. Cuomo was reportedly questioned for 11 hours.

Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins reiterated her prior calls for Cuomo to resign. “It should be clear to everyone that he can no longer serve as Governor,” she said in a statement.

Mariann Wang, a lawyer for two accusers, Alyssa McGrath and Virginia Limmiatis, said in a statement, “Cuomo’s misogyny and abuse cannot be denied.”

“He has been doing this for years, without any repercussions. He should not be in charge of our government and should not be in any position of power over anyone else,” Wang’s statement said. 

Debra Katz, an attorney for former Cuomo aide Charlotte Bennett, echoed Wang, saying Cuomo and other complicit staff “must resign immediately.”

“If he does not, the New York State Assembly must accept the Attorney General’s findings and begin taking the appropriate steps to remove him from office,” Katz said in a statement.

The probe into numerous women’s allegations of sexual harassment by Cuomo began in March, after the state’s executive chamber granted James’ request to investigate.

Later that same month, dozens of Democratic state lawmakers — including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, with whom Cuomo has long had a fraught relationship — urged the governor to resign.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, also a Democrat, in mid-March authorized a panel to launch an impeachment investigation into the harassment claims and other allegations of wrongdoing by Cuomo, including whether his staff tried to hide or alter data on coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes.

Cuomo has defended himself against all the allegations and has repeatedly rebuffed calls for his resignation, though he has apologized for making some women feel uncomfortable.

“I never harassed anyone, I never assaulted anyone, I never abused anyone,” Cuomo said in March. “I’m not going to resign.”

In a video statement shared later Tuesday after the report came out, Cuomo said “the facts are much different than what has been portrayed.”

“I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances,” Cuomo said. “I am 63 years old. I’ve lived my entire adult life in public view. That is just not who I am.”

Cuomo said that some of his behaviors included in the report, such as cupping a woman’s face in his hands in an embrace, were only ever meant to convey warmth. “I am the same person in public as I am in private,” he said.

But “I now understand that there are generational or cultural perspectives that frankly I hadn’t fully appreciated, and I have learned from this,” Cuomo added. He said he had brought in an expert to design a new sexual harassment policy and procedures, and that the whole team, himself included, would be retrained.

Cuomo also asserted that “politics and bias are interwoven throughout every aspect of this investigation.”

“One would be naive to think otherwise, and New Yorkers are not naive,” he said.

President Joe Biden has previously said that Cuomo should resign if the allegations against him are confirmed by the investigation.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki at a briefing later Tuesday said the message from the White House to Cuomo’s accusers is that all women who have “lived through this type of experience” deserve to “be treated with respect and dignity.”

“I don’t know that anyone could have watched [James’ press conference] this morning and not found the allegations to be abhorrent— I know I certainly did,” Psaki said.

Cuomo still had the backing of multiple New York business leaders going into the release of the report. His reelection campaign raised over $2 million on the backs of the executives, including big donations from real estate executive Stephen Ross and Laurance Rockefeller Jr., a member of the ultrawealthy Rockefeller family.

It’s unclear if those executives will still support him going forward.

Cuomo has previously suggested that the probe was not being conducted in an independent manner, and members of his staff have noted that James could be a potential future gubernatorial candidate in New York.

James at the presser said she was offended by the efforts to undercut and discredit the investigation.

“I believe women. And I believe all of these 11 women,” James said.

The report reveals that Cuomo’s younger brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, was interviewed by investigators.

“During his testimony, Chris Cuomo explained that there was discussion about remedial measures the [Executive] Chamber should take in light of the sexual harassment allegations, but some people had taken the position that ‘they should just wait,’” the report says.

The report also says, “According to internal documents and communications obtained during the investigation, it appears that the Governor’s advisors, including Mr. Pollock and Chris Cuomo, counseled him to express contrition after the press published Ms. Bennett’s allegations.”

The document also details calls to Democratic county executives made by New York’s Covid-19 vaccine czar, Larry Schwartz, gauging whether they thought the governor should resign. The calls were made at the request of top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa, according to the report.

It would appear the fences are closing in on "Handsy Andy" so perhaps next is the "Granny Killer" investigation??????????

 

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