24 November 2023: Former Assistant Sues Cuomo for Sexual Harassment

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo sued for sexual assault by former executive assistant Brittany Commisso

Brittany Commisso has finally filed a civil lawsuit against resigned-in-disgrace New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo. The following excerpt describes what the allegations are and explains why the former executive assistant is taking legal action now.

Disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo is being sued for sexual assault by his former executive assistant Brittany Commisso, according to a legal summons filed just before the deadline for the Adult Survivors Act, The Post learned Friday.

Commisso alleges that while she worked in the Executive Chamber as an executive assistant from 2019 through August 2021 her ex-boss subjected her to “humiliating and demeaning tasks, hugs, kisses, sexual touching of the buttocks and forcible touching of the breast.”

The divorced mom of one, who joined the then-governor’s team in 2017, has previously accused Cuomo, 65, of groping her inside the Executive Mansion — an allegation that led to a misdemeanor criminal complaint being filed against the former governor.

She said Cuomo began a campaign of retaliation against her starting on Dec. 7, 2020 the day she rejected his attempt “to engage in sexual acts,” the summons filed in Albany Supreme Court on Wednesday alleges.

The claimed retaliation includes allegations of a 'virtual' demotion, loss of overtime, and ostracization from other employees of New York's executive office.

Like all legal matters involving Andrew M. Cuomo, it's reasonable to expect the case to move at a glacial pace through New York's state courts.

21 November 2023: Interview with Melissa DeRosa on Andrew Cuomo's NY COVID Nursing Home Deaths Scandals

Top Cuomo Aide Melissa DeRosa Gives Unvarnished Take On Nursing Home Deaths, AG Letitia James' Probe

Forbes Newsroom's Brittany Lewis interviewed former Secretary to New York Governor Melissa DeRosa on the topics of Andrew M. Cuomo's deadly nursing home deaths scandals and the sexual harassment allegations that successfully drove Cuomo to resign in disgrace. Here's the video interview, the bulk of the content related to nursing homes takes place between the 8:00 and the 18:00 minute marks:

There's really nothing new in her comments, which should be taken as part of Andrew M. Cuomo's ongoing campaign to exonerate himself from any criminal and civil wrongdoing that resulted from his deadly 25 March 2020 directive.

She does make a concerted effort to try to muddy the waters between policies enacted in 11 states and those of New York in pushing her claim the COVID nursing home deaths scandals were politically motivated, however it remains that only New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan's policies have been recognized as forcing nursing homes to accept COVID patients being discharged from hospitals without testing to verify if they were still contagious. A fifth state, California, also maintained such a policy, but was quickly eliminated within a matter of days after recognizing the risk associated with it. Of all these states, only New Jersey followed New York's direct example in crafting its own version of Cuomo's deadly directive.

This entry was added to the timeline on 24 November 2023.