{"id":367576,"date":"2021-11-16T03:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-details-from-worker-claiming-cuomo-grabbed-her-behind\/"},"modified":"2021-11-16T03:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:38:31","slug":"new-details-from-worker-claiming-cuomo-grabbed-her-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-details-from-worker-claiming-cuomo-grabbed-her-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"#New details from worker claiming Cuomo grabbed her behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#New details from worker claiming Cuomo grabbed her behind<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A female event organizer\u00a0told state probers in cringe-worthy detail how then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo allegedly \u201cgrabbed my butt\u201d \u00a0\u2014 and her shock at being \u201cassaulted by the governor.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u00a0was at a Hudson River revitalization event Sept. 14, 2019, when she said Cuomo grabbed her arm \u201cto pull me into the photo,\u2019\u2019 according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021.06.15_state_entity_employee_1_10.05.2021.pdf\">explosive transcripts<\/a> released by the state attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>\u2019s office last week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the conclusion of the photo he took his hand and double t<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>ed the area where my butt and my thigh meet, so kind of under my butt cheek,\u201d the stunned worker told investigators probing a slew of sexual-harassment allegations against Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt felt like kind of his fingers moved two times upward to kind of, you know, grab that area between my butt and my thigh,\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely after I knew it was wrong but I think the weight of the situation was like a little heavy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"andrew cuomo\" class=\"wp-image-20156312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The woman\u00a0was at a Hudson River revitalization event Sept. 14, 2019 with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to \u2014 I didn\u2019t want to think that I was, you know, assaulted by the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe my jaw opened, like that\u2019s how surprised I was that this occurred because it was just like, \u00a0to me \u2026 you have to be joking,\u201d said the woman, only identified as \u201cState Entity Employee #1\u201d in the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really shocked. \u2026 I felt much like smaller and almost younger than I actually am because kind of the funny part of it all is I was making this project happen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman said she immediately told her supervisor, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I said, you know, \u2018the Governor grabbed my butt, touched my butt, patted my butt,\u2019 something where I directly said that there was like an action towards my butt,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But she said her supervisor seemed \u201cconfused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe gave me eye contact but \u2026. there was no verbal acknowledgement. So I repeated myself and I said it a second time and so, again, there wasn\u2019t a verbal acknowledgement that I had said that,\u201d the worker recalled.<\/p>\n<p>But the woman said she received support from family and friends \u2014 providing copies of text messages she exchanged with them afterward.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Governor Cuomo (hugging his daughter Mariah)\" class=\"wp-image-20156296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Governor Andrew Cuomo hugs his daughter Mariah at a Hudson River revitalization event Sept. 14, 2019.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTook a pic together and Gov. Cuomo patted me on the butt. YUCK,\u201d she wrote in one text.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in another text, the woman wrote that while she believed that Cuomo intentionally touched her, maybe the way he moved his fingers along\u00a0her butt \u201cwas a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she didn\u2019t report the incident at the time because there had been no evidence or \u201cpattern\u201d in 2019 that the governor was mistreating or harassing women.<\/p>\n<p>The employee\u00a0said she also feared Cuomo\u2019s power and that any potential retribution if she came forward could derail her career.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"873\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=873\" alt=\"andrew cuomo\" class=\"wp-image-20156318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1746 1746w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1309 1309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=873 873w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=436 436w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\"\/><figcaption>The woman said she immediately told her supervisor about Andrew Cuomo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt felt very scary to report something against someone who has so much power so \u2014 and I very much felt like the burden and the impact was going to be like fully on me. Like I was going to perhaps have my career impacted,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident allegedly occurred during <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/0e0da3d7747d4f60adf97217e7eef948\">an event Cuomo attended<\/a> that was co-hosted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the not-for-profit Hudson River Trust.<\/p>\n<p>The trust, created by state law, has a governing board whose members are appointed by the governor and New York City mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo told state probers that he didn\u2019t even remember attending the event.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"andrew cuomo\" class=\"wp-image-20156317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/hudson-river-trust-photo-op3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Hudson River revitalization event was a very public event that Andrew Cuomo attended with his daughters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asked if he touched anyone\u2019s butt, Cuomo replied, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, in a written rebuttal to AG Letitia James\u2019 report, complained that the investigators didn\u2019t even show the governor photos of the event to refresh his memory.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer, Rita Glavin, added that the worker\u2019s \u201ctestimony was that the Governor \u2018then moved his fingers upward to kind of grab that area between [her] butt and [her] thigh\u2019 \u2014 not that he grabbed her butt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glavin said it was a very public event that Cuomo attended with his daughters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slides\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"455\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=455\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"Exhbitis from State Entity Employee #1:\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=910 910w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=455 455w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=228 227w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    She said she didn&#8217;t report the incident at the time because there had been no evidence or &#8220;pattern&#8221; in 2019.                                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"455\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=455\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" alt=\"Exhbitis from State Entity Employee #1:\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=455 455w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=228 227w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/governor-touching-exhibit9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\"\/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">\n                                    She said she didn&#8217;t report the incident at the time because there had been no evidence or &#8220;pattern&#8221; in 2019.                                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She said none of the photos and videos from Cuomo at the event showed any \u201cuntoward behavior\u201d by the governor with anyone in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Glavine said, the woman\u2019s claim does not amount to sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anything, the governor had fleeting physical contact with this individual as he posed for pictures. He did not intentionally \u2018grab\u2019 anyone\u2019s butt,\u201d Glavin said.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo resigned from office under the threat of impeachment in August after AG James\u2019 bombshell investigative report concluded Cuomo had harassed or mistreated 11 women, including current and former staffers.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged last month with criminal forcible touching in another case involving an accuser.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has maintained his innocence.\n                        <\/p><\/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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