23 January 2022: Cuomo Attorney Attacks Credibility of Sexual Harassment Victims

Cuomo attorney assails credibility of women who leveled most serious allegations

After having succeeded in getting several county district attorneys to stop pursuing criminal charges against Andrew M. Cuomo related to his alleged sexual harassment of multiple female victims, Cuomo's personal attorney Rita Glavin is now moving to attack their credibility.

That's because Cuomo faces multiple lawsuits, where civil damages could easily total in the muli-millions. That's also an uphill climb because each of the district attorneys choosing to not pursue criminal charges against Cuomo related to the various incidents in their jurisdictions have described the victims' allegations as credible.

That's the background for the content contained in this lengthy report, where we'll excerpt the introduction:

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's top aides and his attorney are continuing a crusade to clear his name of sexual harassment allegations, citing a trove of materials, received through pre-trial discovery in his recently dismissed criminal case, that they say reveal inconsistencies in the accounts of some of the women who accused him of misconduct.

Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin said documents turned over by the Albany County District Attorney's office also raise questions about the thoroughness of an investigation by the state attorney general's office last year that concluded Cuomo had sexually harassed or acted inappropriately with multiple women.

Still, the documents — in addition to the public statements of women who have accused Cuomo of misconduct — also confirm that at times the governor's admitted behavior, including kissing, touching and hugging his aides and a female trooper on his protective detail, arguably violated the state's regulations governing workplace conduct.

The attorney general's office and multiple district attorneys who investigated many of the women's allegations found their accounts credible. But under New York's statutes, three of the district attorneys said, the allegations could not be successfully prosecuted as crimes. An investigation by the state Assembly's Judiciary Committee also concluded that many of the allegations were valid and that the governor had engaged in sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior.

"Another day, another attempt by the former governor to attack the brave women who called out his abuse," state Attorney General Letitia James' office said in a statement issued after Glavin attacked the credibility of the investigation two weeks ago. "Thousands of pages of transcripts, exhibits, videos, and other evidence have already been publicly released, but these lies continue in an effort to mask the truth: Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women."

The remainder of the article reviews Cuomo's attorney's various attempts to discredit his female accusers. Please do click through to the article if you're interested to see what nearly a million dollars worth of legal fees spent through the end of 2021 on Glavin's work can buy a wealthy client in terms of pre-trial legal arguments that attempt to influence potential juror pools for the upcoming civil litigations.