“We didn’t want everybody to know exactly what we were doing because we didn’t want all this, the circus,” Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said.
A New York sheriff who filed a criminal complaint against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that he didn’t mean for the case to go public so soon but still wants it to move forward, the Associated Press reported. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple filed the complaint in Albany City Court with allegations that Cuomo forcibly touched a woman in December of 2020, but he didn’t inform prosecutors or the woman who alleged the former governor groped her beforehand. The complaint did not refer to the woman by name, but she has identified herself publicly as Brittany Commisso, who previously worked for Cuomo as an executive assistant. Apple described the case going public as a “leak,” though those types of filings are public in New York, AP reported. “We didn’t want everybody to know exactly what we were doing because we didn’t want all this, the circus,” Apple said during an interview with radio host Paul Vandenburgh of Albany’s Talk 1300. He said that the case would move forward nonetheless as they await Cuomo’s ordered court appearance on November 17.
