12 July 2022: Cuomo Legal Defense Team Ramps Up Activity in State Trooper's Sexual Harassment Case

Cuomo legal team issues subpoenas over trooper groping lawsuit

There's been a legal development in the civil lawsuit filed by a female New York State Trooper who alleges she was sexually harassed by Andrew M. Cuomo while he was New York's governor. Cuomo's legal team has issued subpoenas to New York's state attorney general and the New York Assembly's Judiciary Committee, both of which investigated the allegations.

The excerpt below recaps the basic story:

Lawyers for disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo are ramping up for a legal fight against a state trooper who accused him of groping her — issuing sweeping document requests from probes conducted by state Attorney General Letitia James and the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

The Judiciary Committee conducted an impeachment inquiry of Cuomo and issued a blistering report last November that accused him of being a sexual harasser who misused state resources while writing a self-congratulatory book during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Assembly panel has received notification of a subpoena from Cuomo’s lawyers requesting all underlying documentation collected as part of its probe, legislative sources told The Post.

But Cuomo's legal team is going to be especially busy, as this next excerpt indicates:

The Trooper case mentions a slew of other women who accused Cuomo of mistreating them and his lawyers intend to depose all of them, according to court papers.

“We are prepared to discuss the need for more than ten depositions…. To refute allegations specific only to Trooper 1, we must depose a number of current and former New York State Troopers,” Glavin wrote to the judge.

“The amended Complaint, however, makes specific additional allegations about Governor Cuomo regarding eleven women—lifting from the Attorney General’s Report—which necessitates the defense deposing those women to refute the allegations.

“Had the Complaint focused solely on Plaintiff Trooper 1, and not included allegations about ten additional women, we could have agreed to take no more than the ten depositions.”

Trooper 1’s lawyers object to deposing the other women accusers.

“Those witnesses already gave testimony to the attorney general’s office under oath. They’ve already been deposed,” said the plaintiff’s lawyer, Valdi Licul.

The case is expected to take months to play itself out.