22 August 2021: Cuomo Makes Odd Claims About Criminal Justice System

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Andrew M. Cuomo made the following statement after a reporter asked about claims his attorney, Rita Glavin, made about Charlotte Bennett, the second woman to come forward to allege sexual harassment on his part. Cuomo's attorney claimed to possess information about Bennett's credibility that she did not state while making public statements on Friday, 20 August 2021. Here is Cuomo's response:

"If you think justice is to accept a complaint from a person without investigation and without credibility determinations and without looking at past actions of that person, then you don't know what the justice system is. You've never been in a situation where you just reiterate complaints, and you don't investigate them and you don't say whether or not the law even applies to them. That's not justice. That's a bulletin board posting complaints."

In effect, Cuomo is claiming the investigators hired by New York's attorney general to investigate the profusion of sexual harassment claims involving him as perpetrator were neither investigated nor corroborated. The charges of sexual harassment presented in their report never-the-less prompted Andrew M. Cuomo to announce his resignation as New York Governor, which becomes effective at 11:59 PM on Monday, 23 August 2021.