does. but this does not rise to the level of sexual harassment or groping or fondling as has been portrayed in the press during this feeding frenzy of the last eight days. there is there alisa mcgrath and this photo was included as part of the attorney general s report. it is a photo of the governor at a holiday party and ms. mcgrath is wearing the black and britney commisso is on the other side. how the report portrayed this photograph is that the governor put his hands around the rib cage just below their breasts as though there was something wrong with this photo. and i just simply ask everybody to look at this. is this something that you
because of what has happened since august 3rd, with the press conference and a report that there is no question in my mind was designed and meant to devastate governor cuomo and his chamber. and for the last eight days it has been a pile-on with people judging facts when they didn t have all the facts. and as we sit here today, the investigators have not provided me, the lawyer for the governor who is being asked to give a submission to the assembly, a single transcript to allow him to respond. they haven t even given him his own. they have not responded to my letter of last week asking to get access to the evidence. and i m willing to do it under
sought her out. he kissed her and then put his arm around her and took this photo. that s the photo. that photo is included in the report as evidence of some type of sexual harassment because miss liss talks about being uncomfortable and the thought about this photo later on that the governor had put his arm around her and then she talked about her experience working with him. and the governor has said yes, he has called people darling and sweetheart. he has had to change with the times. yes, he hugs and he kisses his staffers. he has had to change with the times. and as he said on august 3rd, after the attorney general s report, that he slips and he
focused on bringing sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits on behalf of employees. of course that colored how she viewed what complainants told her versus what other people told her. she could not that was the lens they brought to the case and those backgrounds certainly influenced how they went about the investigation and drafted this report. but what we do know is that report got facts wrong, it omitted favorable evidence that didn t support the narrative. there were 179 witness interviews and they only transcribed where we get the actual q and as, 41. so what did the other 138 say? because there are not 179 people mentioned in that report. so here is where we are.
campaign was making statements misleading the public about what had happened and why she left. and the chamber felt a duty to correct that record. there were also witnesses that the attorney general s investigators interviewed that told them that lindsey boylen was not to be trusted and that they did not find her credible. not just based on what had happened in the tweets, but based on their professional interactions with her when she worked in the chamber. investigators didn t include that in the report and they credited ms. boylen wholesale. what perhaps i think was most bothersome, and there was a lot, but out of interviewing 179 witnesses, the investigators made a choice not to include what a lot of people