There are plenty of ways to ruin your political career, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo appears determined to try them all.
The Empire State Leader has not only been a part of a scandal in which he sent COVID-19 patients to nursing homes, causing a chain reaction of illness that took an untold number of lives, but Cuomo also attempted to bully other authorities in New York into helping him hide the scope of the damage.
Then, as if that weren’t enough, six women have now accused Cuomo of sexually harassing or assaulting them.
One of those allegations came complete with word of a weird fetish held by the grope-y governor.
A former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo told independent investigators about his alleged “preoccupation with his hand size” — and what that supposedly meant, her lawyer said Monday.
Charlotte Bennett, who has accused Cuomo of sexual harassment, spoke with outside lawyers hired by Attorney General Letitia James for more than four hours on Monday by Zoom, lawyer Debra Katz said.
Bennett, 25, also turned over more than 120 pages of “contemporaneous records, as well as other examples of documentary evidence” against the 63-year-old governor and his staff, Katz said.
In a prepared statement, Katz said a new piece of information that came to light was Cuomo’s “preoccupation with his hand size and what the large size of his hands indicated to Charlotte and other members of his staff.”
It’s hard enough to escape run-of-the-mill accusations of sexual harassment as a politician, let alone six of them, but this new personal touch is far too icky for Cuomo to stay on as Governor.
