BREAKING: The Albany County district attorney says he won't pursue a forcible touching case against Andrew Cuomo
"While we found the complainant in this case cooperative and credible, after review of all the available evidence we have concluded that we cannot meet our burden at trial," Albany County District Attorney David Soares said in a statement."As such we have notified the Court that we are declining to prosecute this matter and requesting the charges filed by the Albany County Sheriff be dismissed."The complaint, which was filed in October, alleged that at around 4 p.m.
Cuomo has denied all allegations of harassment. In response to the October complaint, his attorney told CBS News that"Governor Cuomo has never assaulted anyone." Arraignment in the case was originally scheduled for December 7, but was delayed until January after Soaresover potential procedural problems with the complaint. Soares wrote in a November 5 letter to the judge in the case that the sheriff had"unilaterally and inexplicably" filed the charge against Cuomo while the district attorney's office was still conducting its investigation.
Soares said in the November 5 letter that filings in the case were"potentially defective," lacked a sworn statement from the victim, omitted other testimony and misstated relevant law. Apple previously defended his office's handling of the charge, saying during an October 29 press conference that it had done a"very comprehensive and methodical investigation," reviewed"hundreds if not thousands" of documents and conducted interviews with numerous witnesses.
"To touch a woman's breasts, who I hardly know, in the mansion with 10 staff around, with my family in the mansion, to say, 'I don't care who sees us,'" Cuomo said in a July deposition."I would have to lose my mind to do such a thing."
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