New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accused of sexual harassment by second former aide
- Charlotte Bennett was a health policy adviser and executive assistant to the governor from March last year
- She decided to speak out after seeing another former Cuomo aide, Lindsey Boylan, share her story earlier in the week
A second former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has accused him of sexual harassment, saying he asked several questions about her sex life and made her feel “horribly uncomfortable and scared”.
Charlotte Bennett, who was a health policy adviser and executive assistant to the governor, made the allegations in an interview published on Saturday by The New York Times.
Bennett, 25, told the newspaper that Cuomo asked her if she’d ever had a relationship with an older man and whether she thought age made a difference in relationships.
The governor also told Bennett at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that he was lonely and looking for a girlfriend, that he was open to relationships with women in their 20s, and spoke to her about her past sexual assault in a manner which felt like “something out of a horror movie”.
Bennett, who began working for the state last March and has since left, said Cuomo never touched her. But, she said, “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me … And was wondering how I was going to get out of it and assumed it was the end of my job.”