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.