New York, United States:
A second ex-employee of effective New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo has accused him of sexual harassment, charges the governor denied on Saturday.
This time the allegations came from 25-year-old former overall health adviser Charlotte Bennett, who told The New York Times that the governor sexually harassed her in the spring of 2020.
According to Bennett, the 63-year-old politician mentioned in June that he was open to dating girls in their 20s, and asked her if she believed age created a distinction in romantic relationships, the Times reported.
While Cuomo in no way attempted to touch her, “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me, and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared,” Bennett told the paper.
She added that she spoke to Cuomo’s chief of employees and legal counsel, who transferred her to yet another post in yet another developing. Bennett was content with the new job and decided not to insist on an investigation.
Cuomo became a national star final spring with his straight-speaking however empathetic coronavirus briefings that contrasted sharply with then-president Donald Trump’s dismissive strategy to the pandemic.
But the harassment allegations come as he faces a expanding storm more than his handling of the coronavirus in nursing residences in his state.
In a statement Saturday, Cuomo mentioned he “never made advances toward Ms Bennett nor did I ever intend to act in any way that was inappropriate.”
He mentioned he wanted rather to assistance Bennett, who had told him that she was a sexual assault survivor.
The governor, whose third term expires at the finish of 2022, known as for “a full and thorough outside review” of these charges, led by a former federal judge.
“I ask all New Yorkers to await the findings of the review so that they know the facts before making any judgments,” he added.
This is the second time in a week that the Democratic governor, who has led New York state for 10 years, has been accused of sexual harassment.
On Wednesday, yet another ex-adviser, Lindsey Boylan, mentioned in a weblog that he had harassed her when she was working for his administration, from 2015 to 2018.
Boylan, 36, alleged that the governor had offered her an unsolicited kiss on the lips, recommended that she play strip poker with him and went “out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs.”
“For those wondering what it’s like to work for the Cuomo admin, read @LindseyBoylan’s story,” Bennett wrote in a re-tweet of Boylan’s post.
Cuomo’s workplace mentioned in a statement that Boylan’s “claims of inappropriate behavior are quite simply false.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday joined a expanding chorus of politicians calling for an investigation into the allegations created against Cuomo.
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