Cuomo faces yet another allegation of inappropriate workplace behavior
Ana Liss became the third former aide to accuse New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of inappropriate workplace behavior. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Saturday night, Liss said that during her tenure as a policy and operations aide in the Cuomo administration between 2013 and 2015, the governor asked her about her dating life, called her sweetheart, touched her lower back at a reception, and once kissed her hand when she rose from her desk.
Two other former aides, Charlotte Bennett and Lindsey Boylan, have accused Cuomo of sexual harassment, and New York Attorney General Letitia James is overseeing an investigation into the matter. Liss did not appear to directly allege sexual harassment, but she did describe Cuomo's behavior toward her as inappropriate and patronizing, explaining that the governor never asked her about her work. "I wish that he took me seriously," Liss, who won a competitive fellowship to work on economic development programs in the Cuomo administration, told the Journal.
Liss said she never filed a formal complaint, but she did ask for a transfer to another office before leaving the state government altogether in 2015. She said her experience working for Cuomo prompted her to begin mental health counseling, and another fellow who worked in the administration at the same time told the Journal he noticed Liss became more withdrawn over time.
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Meanwhile, Cuomo is also under fire after reporting revealed his office manipulated COVID-19 death statistics in nursing homes last year, and on Saturday, the editorial board of The Times Union, the newspaper that serves Albany and the New York capital region, called for his resignation over the matter. Read more at The Wall Street Journal and The Times Union.
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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.
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