Andrew Cuomo impeachment report details misdeeds, backs up sexual harassment claims
- Lawmakers who reviewed the report said the document clearly shows Cuomo’s behaviour would have been grounds for impeachment had he not resigned in August
- Cuomo is expected to appear in court in early January to face groping charges filed after a former aide accused him of fondling her late last year
A forthcoming 45-page report detailing the Assembly’s impeachment investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo backs up sexual harassment and other misconduct claims levelled against the disgraced Democrat.
Lawmakers who reviewed the report said on Friday that the document clearly shows Cuomo’s behaviour would have been grounds for impeachment had he not resigned in August.
The report, which will be made public in the coming days, corroborates sexual harassment claims made by employees and state workers and shows Cuomo violated the state’s Public Officers’ Law by enlisted underlings to work on his pandemic memoir, lawmakers said.
New York assembly member Phil Steck said the report serves as “total confirmation” of the findings from independent investigators working under Attorney General Letitia James.
“I think the report confirms everything that the attorney general’s investigators said in regards to the harassment,” Steck said. “There’s additional details, additional evidentiary support, but at the end of the day the case is only stronger.”