New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) fall from grace continues after the New York Times on Monday night published a woman named Anna Ruch’s allegation that he had attempted to kiss her without consent at a wedding in 2019.
Ruch is the third woman to accuse the governor of sexual misconduct after two of his former aides, Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte Bennett, alleged that Cuomo had made unwelcome sexual advances in the workplace.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Monday that her office had begun investigating the allegations.
Meanwhile, Cuomo faces more legal woes in a different area after his administration was found to have withheld data on COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents last spring, leading to a serious undercounting of the death toll in his state at the moment he was basking in praise over his handling of the pandemic.
Follow our coverage of the governor’s growing controversies below:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) fall from grace continues after the New York Times on Monday night published a woman named Anna Ruch’s allegation that he had attempted to kiss her without consent at a wedding in 2019.
Ruch is the third woman to accuse the governor of sexual misconduct after two of his former aides, Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte Bennett, alleged that Cuomo had made unwelcome sexual advances in the workplace.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Monday that her office had begun investigating the allegations.
Meanwhile, Cuomo faces more legal woes in a different area after his administration was found to have withheld data on COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents last spring, leading to a serious undercounting of the death toll in his state at the moment he was basking in praise over his handling of the pandemic.
Follow our coverage of the governor’s growing controversies below:
Where is the eye roll emoji?
Whenever one sexual misconduct accusation is brought against most any public figure, they have a tendency to snowball. It happened with George Bush Sr., Al Franken and many others.
Cuomo hasn’t made many friends on his way up. This will not blow over any time soon.
Ms. Ruch was not a subordinate in the workplace.
Is that the distinction you’re making?
So… He was into being up close and personal with much younger women at parties with all the rich and shameless.
So all the hand-wringing about calling for him to resign is not that any of this is news to folks, it’s merely that it’s becoming public knowledge.
Not that he doesn’t need to go-- he definitely does, now-- but there are a lot of hypocrites out in the rich and shameless circles that should be self-booting themselves as well.
Anyone else sick of middle aged white men who have no freaking clue that women in their 20s and 30s are by and large not interested in having sexual relationships with them?
I’m tired of this being ok because at least he didnt rape a 12 year old
This is not ok
I’m a 55 year old woman with a high level leadership position in a public organization, and I have never interacted in this way with anyone in my professional capacity.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I think it is unlikely we will find similar behavior in Gretchen Whitmer’s record.
Get out of the way.