7 October 2022: Cuomo Lawyers Want AG, NY Assembly Impeachment Probe Files

Cuomo files motions seeking disclosure of attorney general, Assembly misconduct investigation documents

Legal developent! Andrew M. Cuomo's attorneys are seeking copies of the files assembled by New York's state attorney general's office and the New York Assembly's Judiciary Committee in their respective investigations of Cuomo's alleged sexual harassment of multiple women during his tenure as New York's governor.

Attorneys for former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have filed motions seeking thousands of documents from both a top legislative committee and Attorney General Letitia James' office related to their respective investigations of the ex-governor.

Cuomo's attorney Rita Glavin asked a federal trial court to compel the state Assembly’s Judiciary Committee as well as the attorney general's office to turn over documents and investigative materials that were used in James’ probe of sexual misconduct allegations against the former governor as well as the legislative report the committee released a few months after Cuomo resigned in August 2021....

The former governor filed a subpoena seeking the materials in July, months after the trooper's lawsuit accused him of sexual harassment including inappropriately touching her and kissing her on the cheek when she served on Cuomo's protective detail.

Both the Assembly Judiciary Committee and James have refused to produce documents in compliance with the subpoena, the motions claim....

According to the motions, the committee and the attorney general's office have claimed attorney-client privilege and deemed the requested documents irrelevant in response to Cuomo's subpoenas.

It's not much, but it confirms that not much has happened over the last several months. At least this story was on topic for Andrew M. Cuomo's legal troubles. It certainly beats the alternative of paying attention to whatever it is that Chris Cuomo, the hapless, journalism-ethics compromised brother of the resigned-in-disgrace former governor, is doing these days.

We don't anticipate much news until after the mid-term elections on 8 November 2022, and then, not for a couple of weeks after that.