Lawyers representing Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Executive Chamber forcefully pushed back Friday against the damning report from State Attorney General Letitia James substantiating sexual harassment charges against him and putting his political future in jeopardy.
The attorneys, one representing Cuomo himself and paid for from his campaign account, and two others representing the Chamber and paid on the taxpayers’ dime, claimed that the AG’s report “ambushed” the governor and was designed to reach a predetermined conclusion, cast aspersions on the impartiality of the investigators, and posited that the stories told by two of the governor’s accusers could not have occurred. They also argued that the investigation and unveiling of the report were not fair to Cuomo, as they had not been given a copy in advance.
