(TJVNEWS) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has now been accused by two more women of inappropriate behavior, bringing the total to five, while two female aides have quit his administration over the sexual harassment allegations as well as a coverup scandal over COVID-19 deaths in the state’s nursing homes.
“I am not going to resign because of allegations,” Cuomo told reporters on a Sunday call. “There is no way I resign.”
Cuomo says his behavior has been “misconstrued” by his accusers while suggesting that claims by former press aide Karen Hinton are “not true.”
Breitbart reported on the latest:
Karen Hinton, another former aide and consultant to Cuomo when he worked as HUD secretary, claimed he inappropriately hugged her years ago during a hotel meeting that was supposed to be about a press conference.
Hinton said she could physically feel he was sexually aroused and “he started asking me personal questions.”
“I was uncomfortable with that conversation. So I stood up to leave and he walked across from his couch and embraced me intimately. It was not just a hug. It was an intimate embrace,” Hinton recalled.
I pulled away. He brought me back. I pulled away again and I said ‘look I need some sleep, I am going.’ It was inappropriate. We both were married. I worked for him and it was too much to make it so personal and intimate,” she explained.
This was the second case to break in less than 24 hours.
Thirty-five-year-old Ana Liss said in an interview published Saturday when she was a policy aide for the governor between 2013 and 2015, he allegedly called her “sweetheart,” kissed her hand once, and asked personal questions such as if she had a boyfriend, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
Zero Hedge recalled:
Liss and Hinton bring the total number of accusers to five:
,Anna Ruch told The New York Times that she met Cuomo at a wedding in September 2019. He allegedly placed a hand on her bare lower back and called her ‘aggressive‘ when she removed it. Ruch said Cuomo then placed his hands on her cheeks and asked if he could kiss her.
Lindsey Boylan said that Cuomo made unwanted sexual advances toward her. She resigned in 2018 after the governor kissed her on the lips without her consent.
Another former aide, Charlotte Bennett, 25, said Cuomo asked if she ever had sex with older men and made other comments she interpreted as gauging her interest in an affair.
Cuomo also reportedly browbeat male aides in his office, calling them “pussies” and saying “You have no balls,” according to the Post.
What Cuomo has touted as an “aggressive” style goes far beyond that behind the scenes, according to more than 20 people who have worked with him from the 1990s to the present. Many former aides and advisers described to The Post a toxic culture in which the governor unleashes searing verbal attacks on subordinates. Some said he seemed to delight in humiliating his employees, particularly in group meetings, and would mock male aides for not being tough enough. –Washington Post
