8 August 2021: Cuomo's Attorney Admits Victim #11's Allegation of Touching "May" Be True

Andrew Cuomo’s lawyer says he ‘may have’ touched state trooper’s back

This report describes the direction of Andrew M. Cuomo's legal defenses against the multiple charges of sexual harassment he faces from as many as eleven female victims. In short, the strategy appears to be dismiss as many serious allegations as possible, but to admit to what might seem like minor infractions for the cases involving the strongest evidence, then try to explain that conduct away.

As legal strategies go, it's somewhat like pleading guilty to lesser charges in hopes of obtaining a lesser sentence and making the bigger charges go away. As political strategies go, Cuomo is all but saying he's a creep.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s personal lawyer kept up her attack on the credibility of some of his sexual harassment accusers Saturday, but admitted one reported instance may have been true.

“The governor may have very well touched the state trooper’s back,” Rita Glavin said during an interview Saturday night with Pamela Brown on CNN. “And she may have understood it one way and he understood it another way.”

The unidentified trooper, a member of the governor’s protective detail, told investigators the incident happened when Cuomo was standing behind her in an elevator, ran his finger down the middle of her back and said to her “Hey, you.”

She also said he ran his open hand over her abdomen as he held a door open for him, according to a report released Tuesday by Attorney General Letitia James.

She told investigators the latter incident left her feeling “completely violated.”

Here's another report about Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin's appearance on Cuomo-friendly CNN:

CNN’s Pamela Brown and Cuomo Attorney Rita Glavin Clash Over Gov’s Defense: ‘Everything You Laid Out Yesterday Was Erroneous!’

This report is interesting because CNN journalist Pamela Brown pushed back against claims made by Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin and other members of Cuomo's legal defense team on Friday, 6 August 2021. The following excerpt picks up with Brown accusing Glavin of purposefully misrepresenting the claims of one of Cuomo's sexual harassment victims:

Brown and Glavin then got into some of the details of Glavin’s comments during the Friday Zoom conference, strongly contesting the allegations by a woman identified as “Executive Assistant 1,” many of which centered around a specific date.

Executive Assistant 1’s accusations, said Glavin, “[do] not match up in any way, shape, or form with what happened on November 16 in documentary evidence and contemporary emails.”

Brown pointed out several times that the accuser had actually said that date was not correct. “The attorney for the accuser says that is actually not true and it actually happened on another date so everything you laid out yesterday was erroneous.”

We think the Cuomo attorney's use of such claims are a sign the Cuomo legal team doesn't have much, if any, exonerating evidence to work with. Otherwise, how else could a journalist from Cuomo-friendly CNN have so easily debunked the Cuomo legal team's claims.