{"id":1767894,"date":"2022-12-08T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767894"},"modified":"2022-12-08T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:49:27","slug":"new-york-ag-shielded-top-aide-from-sexual-harassment-allegations-accuser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-ag-shielded-top-aide-from-sexual-harassment-allegations-accuser-says\/","title":{"rendered":"New York AG Shielded Top Aide From Sexual Harassment Allegations, Accuser Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-ag-shielded-top-aide-from-sexual-harassment-allegations-accuser-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767894&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Letitia James, who led investigation into allegations against Andrew Cuomo, now under scrutiny herself<\/p>\n<p>    New York attorney general Letitia James (D.) \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 December 8, 2022 1:40 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Democratic New York attorney general Letitia James covered up for a longtime aide who was accused of sexual harassment, the aide&#8217;s accuser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/07\/nyregion\/letitia-james-victim-khan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>James, who is best known for investigating sexual harassment allegations against disgraced ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.), was &#8220;protecting her longtime chief of staff, Ibrahim Khan, and withholding any public finding of wrongdoing,&#8221; according to Khan&#8217;s accuser, former James aide Sofia Quintanar.<\/p>\n<p>James, a far-left activist who has used taxpayer funds to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/new-york-ag-quits-spy-campaign-against-pro-life-activists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spy<\/a> on pro-life New Yorkers and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/ny-attorney-general-taps-abolish-ice-activist-as-special-adviser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hired<\/a> a special counsel who wants to &#8220;abolish&#8221; Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in August 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/new-york-ag-says-gov-cuomo-sexually-harassed-multiple-women-broke-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> a report that led to Cuomo&#8217;s resignation. &#8220;No matter the perpetrator, we will not tolerate sexual harassment,&#8221; James said just this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, Quintanar says James&#8217;s office covered up her allegation that Khan in Nov. 2021 &#8220;aggressively grabbed her by her shoulder, pulled her close, and \u2018stuck his tongue down [her] throat,'&#8221; the <em>Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Quintanar said James&#8217;s office told her that it confirmed the allegation. But the office nevertheless allowed Khan to &#8220;quietly submit his resignation in November with his reputation intact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James said in a statement that she &#8220;treated this matter as aggressively as every other matter that has come before our office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the news broke, James, who won reelection last month, faced new scrutiny over her decision not to debate Republican challenger Michael Henry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we all know that she probably feared that somehow the sexual harassment scandal she worked so hard to cover up would come to light,&#8221; Henry <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/06\/ny-dems-silent-on-ag-letitia-james-aide-sex-harass-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic New York governor Kathy Hochul, who took over after Cuomo&#8217;s resignation and won reelection last month, on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/07\/kathy-hochul-rejects-probe-of-letitia-james-handling-of-khan-sexual-harass-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected<\/a>\u00a0calls for a probe into James&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first harassment allegation against Khan. The <em>Post<\/em> reported in 2017 that investigators were looking into Khan for &#8220;drugging and sexually assaulting&#8221; a former coworker. The Manhattan district attorney&#8217;s office closed the case without pressing charges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me and the other victims, we deserve the same vindication&#8221; that James gave to Cuomo&#8217;s accusers, Quintanar said. &#8220;It shouldn&#8217;t be any different because it happened in her house.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York attorney general Letitia James covered up for a longtime aide who was accused of sexual harassment, the aide&#8217;s accuser told the New York Times.<br \/>\nThe post New York AG Shielded Top Aide From Sexual Harassment Allegations, Accuser Says appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1767897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}