3 August 2021: Cuomo Sexual Harassment Victim Number 11

Cuomo harassed state trooper after bending rules to get her assigned to his personal detail: AG report

Before NY state attorney general Tish James' blockbuster report dropped earlier today, media reports had only documented a maximum of ten women who had accuses Andrew M. Cuomo of subjecting them to sexual harassment. This report focuses on an additional victim whose allegations that, to the best of our knowledge, have not previously been reported. It begins with an abuse of power....

Gov. Andrew Cuomo allegedly “changed” the rules to have a female New York State Trooper — whom he is accused of touching inappropriately — assigned to his personal security detail.

A blistering report by the Attorney General’s office concluded that Cuomo met the unidentified officer at a 2017 event at the Triborough Bridge and asked a senior member of his security team to have her added to the Protective Services Unit, which protects the governor. Ordinarily, three years of service as a state trooper is required for a position on that unit, but the officer Cuomo wanted in his inner-circle had only completed two years on the force.

“Ha ha, they changed the minimum from 3 years to 2 just for you,” Cuomo’s senior operator wrote in an email to the trooper.

After she joined Cuomo’s team, the governor allegedly conducted himself in a way she found “offensive and uncomfortable,” according to the AG.

The report provides an example of Cuomo's alleged misconduct and cites that other troopers assigned to Cuomo's protective detail corroborated her statements.