Posted on 03/14/2021 4:06:55 AM PDT by Libloather
ALBANY - On a Saturday morning last June, Charlotte Bennett was unexpectedly summoned to the Capitol to "staff" Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo as he worked in his private office. It was during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and the governor was putting in long hours.
According to an attorney for Bennett, who would later level sexual harassment charges against the governor, she was greeted by Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa and Stephanie Benton, the director of the governor's offices - a role in which Benton largely serves as Cuomo's gatekeeper.
"They said, 'Oh, good, you're here,' and brought her into the office suite - and then the two of them left," said Jessica Westerman, Bennett's attorney. "You only get into (that) office if the trooper lets you in."
It was just a day after the 63-year-old governor, in another one-on-one setting with Bennett, had allegedly asked the 25-year-old a series of probing and unsettling questions about her personal life, including whether the fact that she was a sexual assault survivor made intimacy difficult for her. He also asked about her willingness to have an intimate relationship with an older man and told her he was lonely, Bennett said.
Not long after she was alone with Cuomo in the office, he asked her to help him with his iPhone, claiming he was uncertain how to get from his "settings" app to his "notes" app, according to Westerman. The request required Bennett to stand very close to the governor in order to show him how to operate the phone - a device that, by then, the governor had been using for at least several months.
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#Resist #Reject
You obviously aren’t a woman who has been all alone in close proximity with a powerful bully who knows he is bulletproof.
I believe every single one of them.
Sorry, I don’t buy the wilting lilly hogwash, especially when they failed to report the charges immediately. Again, I’m ok with them lying. Bring down this POS by any means necessary.
Hey, it is the seriousness of the charge.
Of course we have no evidence, but since we "gotta believe them all", let's hang the bastard, and assume he was guilty.
He is a sleazy, greasy dago bag man.
He is too stupid to be a the boss, but he'd make a good cannoli carrier.
Leave the gun...
”In Bennett's case, Westerman said, the apparent mishandling of her sexual harassment complaint last year underscores that Cuomo's top aides have his interests at stake and may go to great lengths to protect him.
Bennett reported her allegations to Cuomo's chief of staff, Jill DeRosiers. The governor's current acting counsel, Beth Garvey, has said the case was subsequently assigned to Judith Mogul, a special counsel to the governor. Rather than reporting the allegations to the Governor's Office of Employee Relations as required, Mogul resolved it by transferring Bennett to a new job in the Department of Health.”
Governments delay access to public records during pandemic
Delay. And redact.
NYS is one of the state's the AP is suddenly having a hissy about.
What's Albany hiding...?
Minga, I’ll take two slices with pepperoni.
Here is how charges against the most powerful man in NY would play out-
“He touched me inappropriately- oh, he says I am a liar? No, there was no one else nearby to corroborate what I am saying. Oh, you think it would be better for me to be transferred away from him? Oh, you mean that job isn’t actually available? Why is security here to escort me out?”
My governor is a CREEP! DIRTY old man.
Reminds me of Aqualung.
Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent
Snot’s running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes
Hey, Aqualung
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run
Hey, Aqualung
Feeling like a dead duck
Spitting out pieces of his broken luck
So do I. However, if they come back for more...
Just saying.
Meanehike... I get your qwertydrift!
I really hope you don’t have my vision issues. :-)
Democrats are so used to being protected, they get pretty reckless with their behavior. That makes it easy when one of them needs to be removed. The nursing home scandal was getting too much attention, bad optics for the democrats. Democrats are good at distracting from the crime that made the party look bad, and focus on the personal crime that makes Cuomo look bad. No doubt that Cuomo sees himself as a ladies man, and has a history of coming on to women. It doesn’t matter to democrats, they’ll have a steady stream of women come forward, with legitimate or made up claims, until he’s gone. Then they will congratulate themselves for protecting women, and ignore their parties role in using nursing homes as death camps.
Completely agree. After what the Democrats did to Brett Kavanaugh (and as big of a disappointment he is ..) as far as I'm concerned every single damn' democrat male ought to have to go through what Kavanaugh did.
I met Andrew Cuomo many years ago—and it was obvious within a few seconds that he was a predator—sexual and otherwise.
That is the reason I believe the women—all of them.
I do as well.
I have been up against men like him- very self assured, underlying cruelty and a quiet vicious knowledge that they are untouchable as no one would dare risk losing their job over an unprovable/unwitnessed accusation.
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