Commisso spoke publicly for the first time, detailing two incidents where she said Cuomo groped her.
An aide who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her has called for him to be criminally charged, saying he is lying when he denies having ever touched a woman inappropriately. Cuomo’s administration has been in crisis since the release of a scathing 165-page report by state Attorney General Letitia James that concluded Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women. The report detailed Cuomo’s “pattern of inappropriate conduct” with Brittany Commisso first, identifying her only as Executive Assistant #1. In an interview with CBS This Morning and the Times-Union of Albany that aired Monday,32-year-old Commisso said she believed she is listed first in the report because of the “nature of the inappropriate conduct that the governor did to me.” “I believe that he groped me,” she said. “He touched me, not only once, but twice.” Commisso started working as an executive assistant in the governor’s office in 2017. She alleged that the governor groped her for the first time on December 31,2019, while she was at the governor’s mansion in Albany to help him with his upcoming State of the State address.
