Cuomo Lawyer Says Governor Was ‘Ambushed’ by Sexual Harassment Report

Rita Glavin, attorney for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, said the governor was “ambushed” by the report on allegations of sexual harassment against him. She addressed two of the allegations in particular — from Executive Assistant #1 and Lindsey Boylan — to dispute the conclusions in the report.

The New York Attorney General’s Office released a report this week concluding that Cuomo sexually harassed eleven women, including some disturbing details of what these women alleged he did. There has been a chorus of calls among Democrats for Cuomo to resign, including from President Joe Biden.

During his legal team’s press conference Friday, Glavin said, “I know the difference between putting case together against a target versus doing independent fact-finding with an open mind. And there has been no open-minded fact-finding in this case.”

She accused the AG’s office of conducting the investigation “to support a predetermined narrative.”

Glavin called AG Letitia James’ press conference “carefully choreographed” and said they were not given “any advanced notice about when the report would be released, its findings, a chance to respond to errors, inaccuracies.”

Before the Q&A portion of the press conference, Glavin claimed she was called by a lawyer from someone who was interviewed in the investigation saying “minds were made up and that questions pushed back on evidence that was favorable to the governor.”

“The governor deserves to be treated fairly, and he must be. That did not happen here. This was one-sided, and he was ambushed,” she concluded.

You can watch part of her remarks above, via CNN.