New York’s disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing criminal charges following last year’s accusations of sexual assault.
On Monday, an Albany County police officer charged Cuomo with “a misdemeanor of Forcible Touching” and filed a formal complaint in Albany’s city court. The court stamped the complaint on Thursday.
The complaint takes issue with two particular incidents from a November event at the governor’s mansion, and it goes into lurid detail. It says:
The defendant Andrew M. Cuomo did intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly place his hand under the blouse shirt of the victim and onto her intimate body party.
Specifically, the victims [sic] left breast for the purposes of degrading and gratifying his sexual desires.
The complaint attached a text message from Cuomo’s phone and cell phone records from an unnamed source. More evidence may surface with time.
The complaint also omitted the victim’s name. However, the victim appears to be former aide Brittany Commisso, who accused Cuomo of forcible touching around that date.
The details of Commisso’s accusation first became public in August during the investigation by the state attorney general. Attorney General Letitia James attracted national attention for her report on Cuomo. Since then, James has allegedly been planning a run for governor, familiar sources told the New York Post.
Days after the report, Commisso made her identity public during a tearful interview with CBS News.
The prosecutor has yet to file this charge. It remains unclear what charges — and how many counts — will come to Cuomo.
“The governor needs to be held accountable,” Commisso told CBS News in August. “What he did to me was a crime. He broke the law.”
The Horn editorial team