Glavin addressed allegations from two women that she previously had not focused upon. 'The governor and his attorney refuse to accept the consequences of his actions and instead are choosing to engage in victim blaming. “The attorney general’s office conducted a comprehensive investigation and we have the utmost confidence in the report’s findings,' responded Jill Basinger, Boylan’s attorney. Glavin said the attorney general’s investigators are obligated to seek contemporaneous records.Ĭoncerning Boylan, Glavin called on James' office to add information to the report about several matters: a conversation between James’ chief of staff and Boylan’s top political consultant the resignation of a staffer for a Boylan political campaign after Boylan tweeted allegations about Cuomo allegedly threatening texts Boylan sent to a former Cuomo aide and testimony from a witness that allegedly impugned Boylan’s credibility. Commisso has encouraged the Albany County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the alleged incident, to subpoena records showing the exact date the text was sent. On the day in question, Commisso said, she went to the governor's second-floor office and helped him text a note from his iPhone to Cuomo aide Stephanie Benton. 16 date is incorrect, and has pegged the date as around Nov. Since the report’s release, Commisso has said the Nov. The outside investigators retained by James did not seek records from Cuomo's office that verified or disproved whether the incident occurred that day, Glavin said. 16, but mentioned in a footnote that Commisso did not recall the exact date. The attorney general’s report said that the incident happened Nov.

Glavin said contemporaneous records from that day, such as emails, indicate such an incident could not have occurred that day. Glavin also raised questions about the accounts of two women whose allegations had received relatively little attention, and were not centerpieces of the attorney general's report.Ĭoncerning Commisso, Glavin said records show she was not in the Executive Mansion last November - where she says Cuomo groped her - on any day other than Nov. 'We cannot allow survivors of sexual harassment to be further traumatized by these continued attacks, lies, and conspiracy theories,” Kempner said.Īs in previous briefings, Glavin attempted to poke holes in the accounts of two accusers: Lindsay Boylan, a former economic development aide to Cuomo, and Brittany Commisso, an executive assistant who has accused Cuomo of groping her breast, the most serious allegation against him.

The 168-page report and additional 486 pages of exhibits clearly corroborate the experiences of the complainants, yet the governor and his aides continue to undermine those who seek to expose this dangerous conduct. “Given the multiple, ongoing criminal investigations into the governor’s conduct, it would not be appropriate to respond further to these baseless attacks. The 'investigation was exhaustive, thorough, and without outside influence, period,' Delaney Kempner, James' director of communications, said. In a statement, James’ office did not appear receptive to Glavin's edits. He no longer faces the prospect of impeachment by the state Assembly, but the chamber plans to issue a report concerning its own inquiry into the sexual harassment allegations and more. 10 he would resign, but the governor still faces criminal investigations related to alleged inappropriate touching.

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