Governor Andrew Cuomo announces resignation after New York’s attorney general released results of an investigation that found he had sexually harassed at least 11 women
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo prepares to board a helicopter after announcing his resignation, Tuesday, August 10, 2021, in New York.
It came after New York’s attorney general released the results of an investigation that found Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women. The #MeToo-era scandal cut short not just a career but a dynasty: Cuomo’s father, Mario Cuomo, was governor in the 1980s and ’90s, and the younger Cuomo was often mentioned as a potential candidate for president, an office his father famously contemplated seeking. Even as the scandal mushroomed, Cuomo was planning to run for reelection in 2022.
He portrayed some of the encounters as misunderstandings attributable to “generational or cultural” differences, a reference in part to his upbringing in an affectionate Italian American family.
At the same time the behavior that got him into trouble was going on, he was publicly championing the #MeToo movement and surrounding himself with women’s rights activists, signing into law sweeping new protections against sexual harassment and lengthening the statute of limitations in rape cases. Also, Cuomo’s administration was fiercely criticized for forcing nursing homes to accept patients recovering from the virus.
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