New York State Team
ALBANY – Pressure for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign was building Thursday after a letter signed by 59 Democratic state lawmakers called for him to step down and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the chamber would conduct its own investigation into the embattled governor s future.
Cuomo was under a new round of criticism after a sixth accuser Wednesday said the Democratic governor sexually harassed her.
The latest case was considered perhaps the most damning: The unnamed aide told her superiors that Cuomo groped her and tried to put his hand under her blouse at the governor s mansion, according to the Times Union of Albany. That would counter Cuomo s contention that he never touched anyone inappropriately.
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ALBANY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced a new allegation Wednesday of inappropriately touching a female aide after a report said he summoned her to the governor s mansion and aggressively groped her.
The unnamed aide said Cuomo asked her to the Executive Mansion near the state Capitol late last year and then allegedly reached under her blouse and began to fondle her, according to the report in the Times Union of Albany.
The aide makes it the sixth woman to come forward to claim sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct by the Democratic governor, but the paper noted the latest one could rise to the level of a criminal investigation.