{"id":609479,"date":"2021-08-03T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609479"},"modified":"2021-08-03T12:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:05:26","slug":"cuomo-sexually-harassed-state-trooper-assigned-to-protect-him-investigation-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuomo-sexually-harassed-state-trooper-assigned-to-protect-him-investigation-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo Sexually Harassed State Trooper Assigned To Protect Him, Investigation Finds"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcuomo-sexually-harassed-state-trooper-assigned-to-protect-him-investigation-finds%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=609479&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\/08\/GettyImages-1232481469-2-scaled-e1620157467774.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An investigation into Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo found that the governor sexually harassed a state trooper assigned to protect him.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo met \u201cTrooper #1\u201d at an event on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in November 2017 where he requested that Trooper #1 be transferred to the Protective Services Unit (PSU) of the New York State Police, a unit \u201cin charge of protecting the Governor and works in close vicinity of the Governor,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrooper #1 was then hired into the PSU, despite not meeting the requirement to have at least three years of State Police service to join the PSU,\u201d the report said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/31\/andrew-cuomo-department-of-justice-leticia-james-fbi\/\">(RELATED: Will Cuomo Be Held Accountable For Allegedly Sending Grandmas To Die In Nursing Homes?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cuomo sexually harassed the female New York state trooper \u201con a number of occasions,\u201d the report said, including by \u201crunning his hand across her stomach, from her belly button to her right hip, while she held a door open for him at an event,\u201d by \u201crunning his finger down her back, from the top of her neck down her spine to the middle of her back, saying \u2018hey, you,\u2019 while she was standing in front of him in an elevator,\u201d and by \u201ckissing her (and only her) on the cheek in front of another Trooper and asking to kiss her on another occasion, which she deflected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo also made sexually suggestive and gender-based comments to the trooper, according to the report, such as asking her to help him find a girlfriend and \u201cdescribing his criteria for a girlfriend as someone who \u2018[c]an handle pain,&#8217;\u201d and \u201casking her why she wanted to get married when marriage means \u2018your sex drive goes down.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrooper #1 found these interactions with the Governor not only offensive and uncomfortable, but markedly different from the way the Governor interacted with members of the PSU who were men, and she conveyed these incidents contemporaneously to colleagues,\u201d the report said. \u201cSeveral other PSU Troopers corroborated Trooper #1\u2019s allegations, including some who had personally witnessed some of the touching and comments as well as the gender-based difference in the way the Governor treated Troopers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation into Democratic New York Gov. 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