A succession of women has come forward to accuse New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment since former aide Lindsey Boylan filed charges against him in February.
These are all women who have made accusations so far.
LINDSEY BOYLAN
Cuomo’s former aide, Lindsey Boylan, 36, accused the governor of “sexual harassment and bullying” while she worked for him in an article written for Medium in February. She said that he often made inappropriate comments to her, joking suggestively when they were supposed to play strip poker.
She claims that he also kissed her on the mouth once, without consent. She said that in the more than three years she worked for him, he “would go out of his way to touch me on the lower back, arms and legs”. Boylan was the first woman to perform.
Lindsey Boylan is seen in New York City on June 17, 2019. (Getty Images)
Cuomo’s office denied Boylan’s accusations.
CHARLOTTE BENNETT
Charlotte Bennett, 25, another former Cuomo aide, claimed that the governor asked her questions about her sex life, whether she was monogamous in her relationships and whether she had ever had sex with older men. She said she believed he was trying to “sleep with me” and reported the inappropriate comments last summer to Cuomo’s chief of staff.
“I thought, he’s trying to sleep with me,” she told CBS in an interview. “The governor is trying to sleep with me. And I am deeply uncomfortable and I have to get out of this room as soon as possible.”
The governor also denied making any progress towards Bennett.
ANNA RUCH
Anna Ruch, 33, the third woman to perform, said Cuomo put his hands on her lower back at a wedding in 2019, then on her cheeks and asked to kiss her. “I was very confused, shocked and ashamed,” Ruch said of the incident.
A friend who claims to have witnessed the alleged interaction said that Cuomo seemed “aggressive” at the time. The friend said that Ruch turned her head and Cuomo kissed her on the cheek.
Ruch, unlike Boylan and Bennett, did not work for Cuomo.
KAREN HINTON
A former press officer, Karen Hinton, said Cuomo invited her to her “dimly lit” hotel room in 2000 – when Cuomo was Bill Clinton’s secretary for Housing and Urban Development – and embraced her, according to The Washington Post.
When she tried to pull away, she claimed that he pulled her back into the embrace before she left the room.
Peter Ajemian, director of communications for Cuomo, refuted the claim, saying it “did not happen”. He called Hinton a “known antagonist” of Cuomo, who was “trying to take advantage of this moment”.
ANA LISS
Ana Liss, another former aide, said that when she worked for Cuomo as a policy and operations advisor from 2013 to 2015, the governor at different times asked her if she had a boyfriend, touched her on the lower back and kissed her. hand as he got up from his desk. She said he called her “dear”.
“It is not really appropriate in any environment,” she told The Wall Street Journal.
Although she said that she thought his flirtations were harmless at first, she soon realized that they reduced her to “just a skirt”.
Liss performed on March 6, the same day as Hinton.
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In a note released by the governor regarding the first three complaints, he said: “At work I sometimes think I’m joking and I make jokes that I think are funny. Sometimes I tease people in what I think is a good – natural way. … I now understand that my interactions may have been insensitive or very personal and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended. I acknowledge that some of the things I said were misinterpreted as unwanted flirtation. To the extent that someone felt that way, I’m really sorry about that. “