{"id":188890,"date":"2021-03-03T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188890"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:30:58","slug":"accusers-lawyer-says-cuomo-spread-falsehoods-and-inaccurate-information-at-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/accusers-lawyer-says-cuomo-spread-falsehoods-and-inaccurate-information-at-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Accuser\u2019s Lawyer Says Cuomo Spread \u2018Falsehoods And Inaccurate Information\u2019 At Press Conference"},"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%2Faccusers-lawyer-says-cuomo-spread-falsehoods-and-inaccurate-information-at-press-conference%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=188890&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Andrew-Cuomo.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>An attorney for Charlotte Bennet, a former Cuomo administration staffer accusing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, accused the governor of spreading falsehoods and inaccurate information after he apologized for making others uncomfortable, but maintained that he never \u201ctouched anyone inappropriately,\u201d and suggested he didn\u2019t know his actions made others uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Governor\u2019s press conference was full of falsehoods and inaccurate information, and New Yorkers deserve better. The Governor repeatedly said he never touched anyone inappropriately. Ms. Ruch\u2019s story makes clear that\u2019s not accurate. The governor repeatedly said he had no idea he made anyone uncomfortable. My client, Charlotte Bennett, reported his sexual harassing behavior immediately to his Chief of Staff and Chief Counsel,\u201d said Attorney Debra Katz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Over the past week, three women, including two former staffers, have accused Cuomo of making them uncomfortable. Anna Ruch, 33, told<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/01\/nyregion\/cuomo-harassment-anna-ruch.html\"><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a> <span>that Cuomo put his hands on her lower back while at a wedding, and then when she removed his hands, Cuomo put his hands on her face and asked to kiss her. Ruch said she pulled away, but that a friend told her Cuomo managed to make contact with her cheeks while she did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuomo said Wednesday that kissing has been a \u201cusual and customary\u201d form of greeting for him, but also said that his intentions didn\u2019t matter. \u201cIf I ever did make people feel uncomfortable, which I now understand that I have, I apologize for it,\u201d said Cuomo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bennet, 25, has accused Cuomo of asking\u00a0her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/now-its-two-second-woman-claims-cuomo-sexually-harassed-her\">questions about her sex life,<\/a> including whether she practiced monogamy and whether she had ever had sex with an older man. Cuomo, 63, told The New York Times that he has \u201cnever made advances toward Ms. Bennett, nor did I ever intend to act in any way that was inappropriate.\u201d Bennet, however, says that she reported an interaction to the governor\u2019s chief of staff last June, when she says the governor talked about the loneliness of the pandemic and asked Bennett when the last time she \u201creally hugged someone\u201d was.<\/p>\n<p>Katz, who also represented Christine Blasey Ford during the 2018 Kavanaugh nomination hearings, said in her Wednesday statement that Cuomo would have been made aware of Bennett\u2019s complaint against him.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are confident that they made him aware of your complaint and we fully expect that the Attorney General\u2019s investigation will demonstrate that Cuomo administration officials failed to act on Ms. Bennett\u2019s serious allegations or to ensure that corrective measures were taken, in violation of their legal agreements,\u201d said Katz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFurther, as reports are emerging of other staff resigning from his office in the wake of his scandals, the people charged with helping him execute the duties of his office are once again bearing the consequences of his actions. If they know anything or have experienced this themselves, we call on them to come forward and report this misconduct,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cuomo said Wednesday that he will not resign, and has asked that New Yorkers abstain from making conclusions about him until the attorney general\u2019s investigation has concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attorney for Charlotte Bennet, a former Cuomo administration staffer accusing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, accused the governor of spreading falsehoods and inaccurate information after he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274708,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Andrew-Cuomo.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Accuser\u2019s Lawyer Says Cuomo Spread \u2018Falsehoods And Inaccurate Information\u2019 At Press Conference","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Andrew-Cuomo.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Accuser\u2019s Lawyer Says Cuomo Spread \u2018Falsehoods And Inaccurate Information\u2019 At Press Conference","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188890","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}