A former government assistant to ex-governor Andew Cuomo is suing him underneath New York’s Grownup Survivors Act, claiming that her former boss subjected her to humiliating and demeaning duties, pressured kisses on her and groped her. The window for claims underneath the act expires at present, with many being filed this week because the deadline approached.
Brittany Commisso labored within the Government Chamber from 2019 to 2021, based on the lawsuit, and was the staffer whose unique criticism of groping led to a misdemeanor legal criticism being filed towards Cuomo on the time. Furthermore, Commisso claims, she was demoted by Kathy Hochul, then lieutenant governor, in retaliation.
The day after Cuomo resigned, officers with the workplace of the “lieutenant governor (Hochul) demoted her from the place of government assistant to the governor, eliminated her from the chief chamber entrance workplace, and assigned her to the demeaning process of answering telephones within the lieutenant governor’s workplace till moved to different places of work, together with lack of extra time, ostracism, given little or no work, demotion, and lack of profession alternatives and development,” the summon states. “The continual sexual harassment by defendant Cuomo included unwelcome sexual advances, sexualized feedback about look and private issues, relations, their relationship, their intercourse life, and her marriage, task of humiliating and demeaning duties, hugs, kisses, sexual touching of the buttocks, and forcible touching of the breast all of which was objectively unreasonable and abusive.”
Wouldn’t it be a shock if Hochul turned out to be Cuomo’s sufferer fixer? I by no means acquired the “Suzanne Scott” impression from her, basic failings however, however that apears to be an enormous ingredient of Commisso’s claims.
Cuomo’s lawyer, Rita Glavin, says it is a money seize: “Ms. Commisso’s claims are provably false, which is why the Albany District Lawyer dismissed the case two years in the past after an intensive investigation. Ms. Commisso’s clear try at a money seize will fail. We sit up for seeing her in courtroom.”