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Jean Kim, the woman who accused former Comptroller Scott Stringer of sexual abuse, launched her latest legal attack against the Upper West Side pol with two sworn statements. In one, Kim’s sister, Susan Kim, described how Stringer tried to flirt with her around the same general time that Jean Kim claims Stringer foisted himself upon her.
The statements, signed off on by Stringer and several allies, were submitted in Manhattan Supreme Court as part of a defamation suit the 2021 mayoral contender filed last December.
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On April 28, Jean Kim, a political lobbyist, accused Scott Stringer, New York City comptroller and the leading progressive candidate in the upcoming mayoral primary, of harassing and sexually assaulting her when she was an intern on his unsuccessful 2001 campaign for public advocate. Stringer vigorously denied her allegations. To no avail: Within two days, he had lost endorsements from the Working Families Party, The Jewish Vote, the Sunrise Movement, and individual progressive allies, including US Representative Jamaal Bowman and state Senators Jessica Ramos, Alessandra Biaggi the latter both Stringer protégés Julia Salazar, and Gustavo Rivera. Assembly members Yu-Line Niou, Catali