Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday called on Andrew Andrews to revoke Andrew Cuomo’s emergency authority over local government after a second “disturbing” allegation of sexual harassment lodged by a one-time employee.
Hizoner’s blistering statement cited not only sexual harassment claims now leveled against Cuomo by two women – including former aide Charlotte Bennett, who spoke on Saturday – but coronovirus deaths in nursing homes Also attempts by Cuomo’s administration to cover the limits of, as stated in the first report. By the post.
“New Yorkers have seen detailed examples of sexual harassment, multiple instances of intimidation, intimidation, and information on the deaths of more than 15,000 people,” de Blasio said. “Questions of this magnitude cannot hang over the heads of New Yorkers as we fight an epidemic and economic crisis. It is clear what should happen now.”
“The state legislature should immediately revoke the Governor’s emergency powers overstating local control.”
Cuomo has wiped out extensive powers since the early days of the epidemic, but has faced questions in recent weeks about whether it is appropriate that he continue with the serious charges against him.
De Blasio additionally asked for an independent investigation into all allegations against the governor, with whom he has repeatedly traded for years.
“A fully independent investigation should immediately take place in nursing home deaths and harassing personal malpractice allegations,” Mayer said. “Precedence shows that the governor’s inquiry should be completely independent of his office.
“The investigation into deaths in nursing homes should be free from the nursing home industry to investigate the campaign’s contribution,” he continued. “And investigations into sexual misconduct should be led by someone completely independent of the governor, not a former business partner of the governor’s top advisor.”
The 25-year-old, after Bennett, a former aide to the governor, Reported to the New York Times Her former boss, 63, made a series of inappropriate comments that convinced her he “wants to sleep with her”, with Cuomo’s office announcing that former federal judge Barbara Jones investigated the charge.
But Jones’ appointment quickly attracted bipartisan criticism, as it was revealed that he left the bench in 2013 to work in a high-powered New York law office with Steve Cohen, a former top aide of Cuomo.
The Cohen nursing home scandal came to protect Cuomo during the past week – a turbulent week he also saw another former Cuomo administration employee, Lindsey Boylan, publish a moderate piece detailing previous sexual harassment allegations against the governor, Including that he kissed her on the lips without warning.
Cuomo has denied both allegations of sexual harassment, and strongly defended her administration’s work to stem coronovirus in nursing homes.
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