纽约州总检察长莱蒂蒂亚·詹姆斯(Letitia James)在对这些指控进行了为期四个月的调查后，于周二上午宣布，纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫(Andrew Cuomo)被发现性骚扰多名女性，包括现任和前任州雇员。
至少有一次，调查确定州长试图报复一名对他提出指控的妇女，该妇女在澳大利亚政府办公室发布的一份报告中被认定为林赛·博伊兰。
根据詹姆斯的说法，调查发现科莫和他的员工营造了一个有毒的工作环境。科莫在詹姆斯宣布后发布的声明中否认有任何不当行为。
司法部长在新闻发布会上发布的长达168页的报告确定，“州长从事了根据联邦和纽约州法律构成性骚扰的行为。”
报道称:“具体来说，我们发现州长对多名现任和前任纽约州雇员进行性骚扰，除其他外，他还进行不受欢迎和非肉欲的接触，并发表大量带有暗示性和性性质的攻击性言论，为女性创造了一个充满敌意的工作环境。
在周二的新闻发布会上，就业歧视律师安妮·克拉克(Anne Clark)介绍了该报告的一系列调查结果，包括州长发表暗示性评论和进行不必要的触摸的具体例子，这11名女性——有些是匿名的，有些是匿名的——认为“非常羞辱和冒犯。”
报道称，在涉及库莫的一名匿名行政助理的案件中，州长被发现“把手伸到她的衬衫下面，抓住她的胸部”。
同一名妇女还叙述了一种情况，即“州长用手抓住她的屁股脸颊，开始摩擦。摩擦至少持续了五秒钟，”报道称。
在另一个例子中，报告描述了科莫是如何性骚扰一名被指派保护他的州警的，包括“当她在一次活动中为他开门时，他的手穿过她的腹部，从她的肚脐到她的右臀部”，以及“当她站在电梯里的他面前时，他的手指顺着她的背部，从她的脖子顶端顺着她的脊柱到她的背部中间，说‘嘿，你’。”
在周二下午针对该报道发表的电视声明中，科莫表示，“事实与描述的大相径庭”，没有迹象表明他会听从辞职的呼吁。
他说:“我想让你直接从我这里知道，我从未不恰当地接触过任何人，也从未进行过不恰当的性挑逗。“那不是我。”
科莫向包括夏洛特·贝内特在内的两名指控者发表了讲话，科莫坚称自己试图帮助他们度过之前的性骚扰事件。
科莫说，班尼特“做出了我从未想过的推论”，并将动机归因于“我从未有过”
对于一位不知名的行政助理指责科莫把手伸到她的衬衫下面，触摸她的胸部，州长说“这一切都没有发生。”
科莫展示了一系列他亲吻男女名人的照片，指责报告作者将普通互动、笑话和戏谑武器化。
“政治和偏见交织在这种情况的每个方面，”他说。
尽管如此，科莫说，“我现在明白了，坦率地说，我并没有完全理解某些世代或文化的观点。我从这件事中吸取了教训。”
克拉克周二表示，科莫上个月与调查人员会面了11个小时，并提供了否认和承认的“组合”。
“有一些事件他承认了，但有不同的解释，还有一些事情他否认或说他不记得了，”克拉克补充道。
库莫曾因其对冠状病毒大流行的积极应对而被认为是全国民主党的主要声音，但近几个月来，在铺天盖地的负面头条新闻下，他迅速失宠。
当针对科莫的性骚扰指控在3月份出现时，据报道，联邦调查人员已经在调查他的政府，因为他们担心政府隐瞒了关于他的确凿数据养老院死亡在纽约。库莫也面临着审查，因为有报道称他优先为他的家人进行测试在大流行的早期。
至少有六名女性，包括几名曾为三届州长工作的女性，指责科莫的不当行为和不必要的挑逗——他要么认为这是夸大其词，要么直接否认。
“等待事实，”科莫在3月份说。"没有事实根据的意见是不负责任的。"
对被指控的不当行为的报道促使詹姆斯发起了一项独立调查，窃听两名经验丰富的调查员来引导探测器。
作为性骚扰指控的后果之一，科莫面临着几位知名民主党人的辞职呼吁，包括纽约州众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥·科尔特斯和纽约州参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默。科莫有拒绝了那些电话。
Gov. Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, NY AG probe finds
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was found to have sexually harassed multiple women, including current and former state employees, New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday morning after a four-month probe into the allegations.
In at least one instance, the investigation determined that the governor sought to retaliate against a woman who leveled accusations against him, identified in a report released by the AG's office as Lindsay Boylan.
According to James, the probe found that Cuomo and his staff fostered a toxic work environment. Cuomo, in a statement released after James' announcement, denied any wrongdoing.
The attorney general's 168-page report, released during her press conference, determined that "the governor engaged in conduct constituting sexual harassment under federal and New York State law."
"Specifically, we find that the Governor sexually harassed a number of current and former New York State employees by, among other things, engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching, as well as making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women," the report said.
At Tuesday's press conference, employment discrimination attorney Anne Clark, one of the investigators assigned to lead the probe, presented a litany of findings from the report, including specific examples of the governor making suggestive comments and engaging in unwanted touching that eleven women -- some named, others anonymous -- found "deeply humiliating and offensive."
In an instance involving one of Cuomo's unnamed executive assistants, the governor was found to have "reached under her blouse and grabbed her breast," according to the report.
The same woman also recounted a circumstance in which "the Governor moved his hand to grab her butt cheek and began to rub it. The rubbing lasted at least five seconds," the report said.
In another instance, the report describes how Cuomo sexually harassed a state trooper assigned to his protective detail, including by "running his hand across her stomach, from her belly button to her right hip, while she held a door open for him at an event" and "running his finger down her back, from the top of her neck down her spine to the middle of her back, saying 'Hey, you,' while she was standing in front of him in an elevator."
In his televised statement issued Tuesday afternoon in response to the report, Cuomo said that "the facts are much different than what has been portrayed" -- and gave no indication that he would heed calls for his resignation.
"I want you to know directly from me that I never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances," he said. "That's not who I am."
Cuomo addressed two of his accusers, including Charlotte Bennett, who Cuomo insisted he was trying to help through a prior incident of sexual harassment.
Cuomo said Bennett "drew inferences I never meant" and ascribed motives "I never had."
To the unnamed executive assistant who accused Cuomo of reaching under her blouse and touching her breast, the governor said "this just did not happen."
Displaying a series of photos of him kissing luminaries both male and female, Cuomo accused the report's authors of weaponizing ordinary interactions, jokes and banter.
"Politics and bias are interwoven into every aspect of this situation," he said.
Nevertheless, said Cuomo, "I now understand that there are generational or cultural perspectives that frankly I hadn’t fully appreciated. And I have learned from this."
Cuomo met with investigators for 11 hours last month and offered "a combination" of denials and admissions, Clark said Tuesday.
"There are some incidents he admitted to but had a different interpretation of, and there were other things that he denied or said he didn't recall," Clark added.
Once considered a leading voice among national Democrats for his aggressive response to the coronavirus pandemic, Cuomo has suffered a meteoric fall from grace in recent months under a deluge of negative headlines.
When sexual harassment claims against Cuomo emerged in March, federal investigators were already reportedly probing his administration over concerns that it withheld damning data aboutnursing home deathsin New York. Cuomo has also faced scrutiny over reports that heprioritized testing for his familyin the early days of the pandemic.
At least six women, including several who previously worked for the three-term governor, have accused Cuomo of inappropriate behavior and unwanted advances -- claims that he has either dismissed as an exaggeration or outright denied.
"Wait for the facts," Cuomo said in March. "An opinion without facts is irresponsible."
Reports of the alleged misconduct prompted James to launch an independent investigation, tappingtwo seasoned investigatorsto lead the probe.
As part of the fallout from the sexual harassment claims, Cuomo faced calls from several high-profile Democrats --- including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. -- to resign. Cuomo hasrebuffed those calls.
