Sexual harassment allegation against Cuomo

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Biden is right. People should await the results of the investigation.

An aide to Gov. Cuomo accused him on Friday of ogling her body and subjecting her and another staffer to suggestive remarks — sometimes in Italian — making her the first current employee to come forward publicly with allegations of sexual harassment against the beleaguered governor.

Alyssa McGrath, an executive aide in the governor’s office, told The New York Times that Cuomo routinely made inappropriate comments about her physical appearance, including commenting in Italian on how beautiful she was while she was alone with him in his home office.

On one occasion, McGrath said she was called into Cuomo’s office at the State Capitol to take dictation.
She told the newspaper that she was nervous, having never taken dictation alone with him before.

“I put my head down waiting for him to start speaking, and he didn’t start speaking,” she recalled. “So I looked up to see what was going on. And he was blatantly looking down my shirt.”

Noticing that McGrath was looking at him, Cuomo made “a subtle reference, saying, ‘What’s on your necklace?’ which was in my shirt,” she said.

Rita Glavin, a lawyer for Cuomo, reiterated the governor’s denial of ever inappropriately touching anyone, but gave some of McGrath’s allegations credence.

“The governor has greeted men and women with hugs and a kiss on the cheek, forehead, or hand. Yes, he has posed for photographs with his arm around them. Yes, he uses Italian phrases like ‘ciao bella,’” Glavin said in a statement. “None of this is remarkable, although it may be old-fashioned. He has made clear that he has never made inappropriate advances or inappropriately touched anyone.”

Mariann Wang, an attorney for McGrath, rejected Glavin’s explanation and suggested Cuomo’s comments in Italian went beyond “ciao bella,” adding that her client had to ask her parents to translate the phrase the governor had used in reference to her.

Once the first two or three report, more victims come out of the woodwork. Look at Tiger Woods. Look at Harvey Weinstein. Look at Bill Cosby.

Where is Rashida Tlaib?