{"id":317640,"date":"2021-08-07T01:20:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T22:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/while-allegedly-harassing-women-cuomo-also-abused-state-resources\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T22:20:31","slug":"while-allegedly-harassing-women-cuomo-also-abused-state-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/while-allegedly-harassing-women-cuomo-also-abused-state-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"#While allegedly harassing women, Cuomo also abused state resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#While allegedly harassing women, Cuomo also abused state resources<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Cuomo-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The saga of Gov. Cuomo\u2019s downfall attracts prurient interest. But s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> away the supposedly titillating details \u2014 which weren\u2019t so titillating to the near-dozen women who allegedly experienced them \u2014 of New York Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Letitia James\u2019 168-page investigative document into Cuomo\u2019s workplace behavior, and you get not just sexual harassment, which is bad enough, but something just as unacceptable: garden-variety public corruption, including mis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriation of state resources.<\/p>\n<p>As the state Legislature impeaches Cuomo, lawmakers shouldn\u2019t leave this part out. Abusing taxpayer resources is an important sin, too.<\/p>\n<p>Take the first instance of harassment detailed in James\u2019 report, one previously unreported. In 2017, Cuomo encountered a New York state trooper at an event on the Triborough Bridge. At the governor\u2019s insistence, \u201ctrooper #1 was then hired into the PSU,\u201d \u2014 the rarefied protective-services unit, which guards the governor. This, even though she fell short of the requirement of at least three years\u2019 experience.<\/p>\n<p>The report alleges that the governor then repeatedly treated this member of state law enforcement as an object of sexual touching and remarks.<\/p>\n<p>This behavior isn\u2019t just harassment but an abuse of state resources. Arbitrarily changing the rules that govern hiring based on a powerful elected official\u2019s whim harms public safety; there\u2019s presumably a good reason why only experienced troopers should guard high-profile targets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/518619931\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode&amp;access_key=key-9a15KyxylkDDGg4jU6KY\" data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_518619931\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This non-meritorious hiring also harms other state troopers who might aspire to this elite position; any such applicants who were passed over are now in a position to sue.<\/p>\n<p>The report notes that one other woman specifically observed that the state police had capriciously chosen her colleague over her. The state\u2019s roster of law-enforcement officials does not exist for the governor\u2019s pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Next, there\u2019s the story of \u201cKaitlin.\u201d Cuomo met Kaitlin at a fundraiser in 2016. Days later, his executive chamber contacted her to give her a job. She requested a salary of $120,000, a figure so high that two top Cuomo staffers \u201claughed\u201d at it during Kaitlin\u2019s interview for the position, James notes. Yet, she got the job at the requested pay.<\/p>\n<p>The report doesn\u2019t outline Kaitlin\u2019s job duties; indeed, Kaitlin told investigators that she received \u201clittle guidance and direction\u201d at work. Nor does the report say whether anyone else was considered for this high-paying position.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the governor then proceeded to harass this new employee, calling her \u201csponge,\u201d inappropriately commenting on her looks and ogling her as she searched for car parts on eBay for him, a personal task that he shouldn\u2019t have asked for on the public dime.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the report is accurate, Cuomo directly caused two women to be promoted or hired specifically to harass them. In at least six other examples, he persistently harassed or groped women already on the state payroll. The taxpayer, not the governor, paid all these women \u2014 and Cuomo effectively stole their time on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s abuse of public resources isn\u2019t limited to his direct sexual bullying, though. He engaged other top state workers to help him engage in coverups and retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, the governor\u2019s secretary, Melissa DeRosa, ordered another staffer to call Kaitlin, now departed from the governor\u2019s staff, \u201clooking for information . . . if she had allegations against the governor,\u201d the staffer reported. DeRosa, along with another top staffer, Richard Azzopardi, also released the confidential employment file of yet another accuser to multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> outlets. DeRosa and Azzopardi weren\u2019t doing honest work for the taxpayer in this capacity. They were doing the opposite: serving the governor, not the state.<\/p>\n<p>As Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie prepares an impeachment against Cuomo, he will rightly focus on the experiences of the women who endured repeated verbal and physical sexual provocation from their formidable boss. They are the primary victims.<\/p>\n<p>But Heastie shouldn\u2019t forget the secondary victims.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo also effectively appropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least, in state resources \u2014 the public dollars he used to harass women, and the public dollars he used to pay men and women to cover up his abuse.<\/p>\n<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/governor-andrew-cuomos-downfall\">Adapted from the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.<\/a><\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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But strip away the supposedly titillating details \u2014 which weren\u2019t so titillating to the near-dozen women who allegedly experienced them \u2014 of New York Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 168-page investigative document into Cuomo\u2019s workplace behavior, and you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Cuomo-8.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113541,70430,73779,71374,80573],"class_list":["post-317640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-6-21","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-legislature","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-taxpayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}