Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is suing a former statehouse aide for defamation, claiming that her accusations of sexual harassment caused “a cascade of harm,” and ruined him “both personally and professionally.”
In a summons and notice filed Thursday morning and obtained by The Independent, Cuomo insists Bennett “directly undermine[d]” her own allegations in “tens of thousands of contemporaneous text and video messages,” and that she withheld this evidence from New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who found that the ex-governor made inappropriate advances toward multiple women working under him. James’s investigation also found that Cuomo retaliated against at least one of his accusers for going public with her complaints.
