A former aide to disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has filed a last-minute lawsuit under New York's Adult Survivors Act.
Brittany Commisso first accused Cuomo of sexual harassment in 2021. Accusations of sexual misconduct from her and other women led to an investigation commissioned by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The investigation concluded Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women. He resigned as governor the day after President Biden called on him to step down.
Cuomo's successor, Kathy Hochul, signed the Adult Survivors Act into law, giving alleged victims of sexual offensives a one-year window to file civil suits regardless of the statute of limitations. That window closed on Friday. (RELATED: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Accused Of Sexual Assault In Legal Filing)
The New York Post continues:
Commisso alleges that while she worked in the Executive Chamber as an executive assistant from 2019 through August 2021 her ex-boss subjected her to “humiliating and demeaning tasks, hugs, kisses, sexual touching of the buttocks and forcible touching of the breast.”
“It disgusts me that Andrew Cuomo is even considering running for public office in the wake of Mayor Adam's alleged sexual harassment when he himself will not accept responsibility or even acknowledge his sexual harassment of me, aside from numerous other victims, while the governor of our state,” she told The Post in a statement.
She referred to a Page Six report that the disgraced governor is “considering his options” and could be eyeing a run for mayor after Eric Adams was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993 in a suit also filed before the Adult Survivors Act deadline.
Commisso, a divorced mom of one who joined the then-governor's team in 2017, has previously accused Cuomo, 65, of groping her inside the Executive Mansion — an allegation that led to a misdemeanor criminal complaint being filed against the former governor.
Commisso also claims Cuomo retaliated against her after she rebuffed his sexual advances.
According to the suit, then-Lt. Gov. Hochul demoted Commisso, giving her secretarial work to do until she moved offices.
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