Posted on 08/09/2021 8:37:20 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has resigned amid an AG report that accused Cuomo of sexually harassing several women, according to the Wall Street Journal, CNN and other national media outlets.
Melissa DeRosa tendered her resignation on Sunday night.
A statement from DeRossa was tweeted by WSJ reporter Jimmy Vielkand.
“Personally, the past 2 years have been personally and mentally trying. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such talented and committed colleagues on behalf of our state,” DeRosa’s statement read, according to the Wall Street Journal.
In her message, she did not mention Cuomo at all!
Cuomo’s women issue may have gotten worse today when pictures emerged of him appearing to get cozy with his closest aide – the woman who admitted his administration had downplayed the number of nursing home COVID deaths – less than two weeks after she got married.
‘He was quite brazen about it. It was all in public view in a restaurant,’ said an eyewitness who snapped pictures of Andrew Cuomo and Melissa DeRosa as they finished dinner in New York City in 2016. DailyMail.com has now obtained those pictures.
The new photos may pile further pressure on the governor who has been accused of sexual harassment by two women over the past week.
The pictures show Cuomo, now 63, and DeRosa, 38, in the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill in Lower Manhattan on September 8, 2016. DeRosa had married former Cuomo spokesman Matthew Wing just 12 days earlier on August 27.
Images below:
The governor and his aide had been dining with another man who left shortly after 8pm, recalls ‘James,’ one of the men who took the pictures. Neither man wants to be publicly identified for fear of retaliation from the famously combative governor.
‘He put his hand under the table and it looked like he was touching her thigh.’
‘He had at least two drinks in the 20 minutes or so that they were alone together,’ said ‘Tom,’ the second of the men.
‘They sat at the back in a cozy booth. Normally those booths are reserved for parties of four or more — but I guess if you are the governor you get to sit where you want.’
So it came as no surprise that New York Governor Cuomo’s Assistant, Melissa DeRosa, tweeted her support for the governor when alligations first surfaced of his illicit actions with women:
According to CNN, DeRosa was mentioned in an investigative report commissioned by New York Attorney General Letitia James — the same report which accuses Cuomo of sexually harassing 11 women and accused him of fostering a hostile work environment.
The report also details DeRosa’s alleged attempts to discredit Cuomo’s accusers.
Cuomo has consistently denied inappropriately touching or groping women during his time in office. One of his accusers came forward on Monday to claim that Cuomo was lying by issuing such denials.
10’s of thousands of dead seniors from Covid.
Haven’t heard much about the Justice Department dropping all investigations lately have you?
Inconclusive pic, could be bracing it on the bench. Doesn’t mean she wasn’t shagging him but who cares.
D’s are trying to force him out bc he’s distraction, but he’s not in Washington so he’ll be compartmentalizated by voters with the help of the media. I predict that he won’t resign nor be impeached. Resigning means forever being defined by what forces you out. There’s no downside to riding out his term.
Epstein's love island is available
Cuomo should release a video of him touching the thigh of many others. It was harmless. It’s who he is.
It’s a “resume enhancer” for him.
Does anyone believe this was not common knowledge for years.
Cuomo’s assaults and threats to other women were also widely known and covered up for years. The women were threatened And silenced. Their complaints were covered up.
Now the liars in the media are pretending that suddenly they care about this.
The Biden DOJ recently dropped the investigation into nursing home deaths.
No one in the media cares about the thousands that died.
“Bill Clinton never surrendered and neither should you!”
Go easy on Billy-Jeff... he just lost one of his GF’s, actress Markie Post, this past weekend.
...iikely because not all those politicians face potential criminal charges for mass manslaughter. Covering for him is covering for the likes of inslee, newsom (Alfred E. Newsom), whitmer and others.
Possible defense: If God hadn’t wanted Cuomo to grope, He wouldn’t have created thighs or breasts.
She was dumped by BJ when she left her 30’s.
In college he was a member of Iota Felta Thigh
LOL!! The CREEPY Kissing Video sure did help him!! s/
We Jews had Zeta Laida Shiksa
From what I’ve read about her, he’s lucky she didn’t slice off his gonads.
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