9 October 2021: Parsing Cuomo's Personal Attorney's Legal Claims

Andrew Cuomo lawyer: No way ex-gov sexually harassed more than five women

We're headed into a slow news weekend, where we anticipate news out of New York on the Cuomo administration's COVID nursing home deaths scandals to be sparse. This report picks up on the letter Andrew M. Cuomo's personal attorney sent the New York Assembly Judiciary Committee on Friday, 8 October 2021, finding it makes an unexpected admission:

Sure, he may have been found to have sexually harassed three or four women — but not 11.

That’s the unusual argument put forward by disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s lawyer in a brash Friday filing that attacked both his many accusers and state Attorney General Letitia James, whose office led an investigation that found Cuomo broke state and federal harassment laws.

In a 10-page missive to state Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) and committee lawyers, Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin sought to prevent the panel from adopting James’ findings in their own soon-to-be-released impeachment probe report.

Stunningly, Glavin insisted that the Judiciary Committee report “must clarify that the Governor did not sexually harass 11 women in violation of the law, and the Report did not find this.

“Indeed,” Glavin continued, “even if you were to accept every complaint as fact (which we do not), more than half of the complainant’s allegations do not meet the standard of sexual harassment set forth in law.”

According to Rita Glavin, Andrew M. Cuomo's personal attorney, the rest of the complanant's allegations do meet her interpretation of the standard of sexual harassment set forth in law.