Andrew Cuomo Threatens Bar Complaint Against Tish James For Making Him Look Like A Gropey A-Hole

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The thing about a comeback tour is that you actually have to go away first. But Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor who resigned in August 2021 after multiple women accused him of inappropriate advances, refuses to leave.

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Yesterday his attorney Rita Glavin continued her attacks on his accusers in an hour-long press conference. In her telling, Cuomo didn’t quit because he’s a bad boss who can’t keep his hands to himself. No, his resignation was an act of great selflessness, out of love for the people of New York. But not in a pervy way!

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He could have stayed, he could have fought. And the state would have been paralyzed for months and months through a trial, while we still had COVID, while we’re dealing with serious issues of crime in New York City. The Governor resigned not because he believed or acknowledged he’d committed sexual harassment. He resigned because he’s a public servant who knew he would not get a fair trial.

And Rita Glavin knows that lyin’ bitches are to blame. One lyin’ bitch in particular.

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“I believe women. You and I both know: men don’t tell the truth, and women don’t tell the truth,” she said. “But no one, when it comes to this topic, wanted to do a critical examination of the evidence that the Attorney General wouldn’t give.”

Well, it’s a choice.

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While it’s true that Cuomo’s position became totally untenable after Attorney General Tish James released a 168-page report detailing claims by nine women that he behaved inappropriately, her findings capped off weeks of unflattering media accounts of his bad behavior. Nevertheless, Cuomo’s theory is that James took him out so she could run for governor herself, “slow walking” the rollout of her findings to do maximum damage, while hiding exculpatory testimony.

And Mario Cuomo’s son simply cannot abide this type of bare knuckles politics. As a guy who once claimed he wasn’t handsy, he just talked with his hands and put his lips on people because he’s Italian. As one might say, BASTA!

So Cuomo’s going to go after James by filing a complaint with the state Supreme Court attorney grievance committee. Not as an act of revenge, of course, but to protect the public from an out-of-control prosecutor.

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“She misused state resources for political gain,” Glavin claimed, threatening to lodge charges of witness tampering and perjury against everyone involved in generating the document.

“The report was and always will be misleading and unreliable, unfair and no process,” Glavin said. “In the governor’s view what has occurred to date is misconduct.”

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Then Cuomo followed up with own Trump-y tweet.

Governor Cuomo to File Ethics Complaint w NYS Bar Attorney Grievance Committee for Misconduct Against Tish James Joon Kim & Anne Clarke

Glavin: Submissions Will be Made to Relevant DAs Surrounding Cases of Perjury & Witness Tampering, including, but not limited to Lindsey Boylan pic.twitter.com/5pv1515iSZ

— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) February 10, 2022

What Is It With These People and Their Fetish for Capital Letters?

Cuomo himself is facing a bar complaint from the Sexual Harassment Working Group, an organization formed by former state legislative employees who “experienced, witnessed, or reported sexual harassment by former New York legislators and their staff.”

“Admission to the Bar is not an entitlement for the powerful, but an earned privilege,” the wrote. “Mr. Cuomo has lost that privilege with his harmful behavior and flagrant disregard for the law. We expect this committee does its duty to hold Mr. Cuomo professionally accountable for his unlawful conduct.”

As for James, she seems unfazed by Cuomo’s threats.

“If he thinks he has a real legal case, he should go ahead and file it,” her spokeswoman Delaney Kempner told the Times Union. “These attacks are disgraceful and yet another desperate charade to mask the truth: Andrew Cuomo is a serial sexual harasser.”

Cuomo to file misconduct complaint against attorney general [Times Union]

Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

Topics

Andrew Cuomo, Government, Letitia James