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On today’s 51%, I speak with long-time women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred about the allegations of sexual misconduct against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and pick her brain about what it means to be a feminist. And we’ll hear from New York State Senator Alessandra Biaggi about her own experiences with the governor.
According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, about 7,500 claims of sexual harassment were submitted in 2019; this includes reports from the private sector and state and local government workplaces. It represents a 10% increase from 2015.
According to a 2018 survey by the nonprofit “Stop Street Harassment,” 81 percent of women and 43 percent of men have experienced some form of sexual harassment during their lifetime. More than half of those women reported unwelcome sexual touching.
Gov Cuomo signs bill repealing legal immunity granted to New York nursing homes during pandemic as he faces probe into hundreds of excess deaths at care facilities
Effective immediately, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities can be held civilly and criminally liable for treatment of individuals with COVID-19
The bill was sponsored and championed by Cuomo critics including Sen. Alessandra Biaggi
However, Cuomo himself has faced calls to resign amid probes into whether the state mishandled nursing home deaths related to the pandemic
The Cuomo administration has faced accusations that the state miscounted hundreds of nursing home deaths as hospital deaths
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been accused of three separate instances of sexual harassment. Charlotte Bennett and Lindsey Boylan came forward first and Anna Ruch followed.
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Bennet, a former executive assistant and health policy adviser in Cuomo’s administration until November 2020, told the New York Times that Cuomo pried into her sex life, asking if she had ever had sex with older men and if she ever had monogamous relationships. The 25-year-old told the Times that the incidents occurred late spring of 2020. “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me,” she told the Times.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Democratic New York State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi about the allegations of sexual harassment against N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo.