{"id":2536,"date":"2024-01-26T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/former-new-york-gov-andrew-cuomo-sexually-harassed-13-staffers-justice-department-says\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:42:07","slug":"former-new-york-gov-andrew-cuomo-sexually-harassed-13-staffers-justice-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/former-new-york-gov-andrew-cuomo-sexually-harassed-13-staffers-justice-department-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New York Gov Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 staffers, Justice Department says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a> subjected at least 13 female state employees to a “sexually hostile work environment,” according to a settlement agreement reached between the Justice Department and New York State Executive Chamber.<\/p>\n

The agreement resolves claims of sexual harassment and retaliation against Cuomo, a Democrat, according to a DOJ release<\/a> on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The nine-page agreement said Cuomo subjected the female employees to unwelcome, non-consensual sexual contact, “ogling” and gender-based nicknames. His senior staff was aware of the then-governor’s behavior and retaliated against four women,” the settlement states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“The Executive Chamber\u2019s response was designed only to protect Cuomo from further accusations, rather than to protect employees from sexual harassment,” the settlement states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement, Cuomo’s attorney, Rita Glavin, said he didn’t harass anyone and that the DOJ investigation was based on a “deeply flawed, inaccurate, biased, and misleading report” by New York State Attorney General Letitia James.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This is nothing more than a political settlement with no investigation,” Glavin said.<\/p>\n

Cuomo is suing James<\/a> for documents related to her 2021 investigation into alleged sexual harassment that led to his resignation in August 2021 following her bombshell report of his alleged misdeeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In a separate statement, Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi said the DOJ’s investigation “isn\u2019t worth the paper it\u2019s printed on.”<\/p>\n

Mariann Wang, an attorney for two women who alleged Cuomo harassed them, said: “We are pleased the US Attorney\u2019s office and the Executive Chamber have taken serious steps to ensure nothing like the abuse Cuomo engaged in will happen again.”<\/p>\n

“We hope these measures have real impact and prevent the kind of repeated abuse of power that resulted in so much harm to so many women,” she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Under the terms of the settlement, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office will create a new process for complaints against senior officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo subjected at least 13 female state employees to a “sexually hostile work environment,” according to a settlement agreement reached between the Justice Department and New York State Executive Chamber. The agreement resolves claims of sexual harassment and retaliation against Cuomo, a Democrat, according to a DOJ release on Friday.\u00a0 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}