Brittany Commisso speaks up versus Gov. Andrew Cuomo throughout a CBS Exclusive interview.
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An executive assistant to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo stated that the embattled Democrat requires therapy as she explained his “sexually aggressive” searching that led her to lodge a criminal grievance recently.
“I do think he needs to resign and I also do think that he needs to seek counseling,” Brittany Commisso, 32, stated in an interview with CBS News that aired Monday.
“I do think that he needs professional help,” stated Commisso, who was determined without her name as “Executive Assistant #1” in a bombshell report by the state chief law officer’s workplace, which concluded that the 63-year-old Cuomo sexually bothered 11 females.
“You know, he has many things that he needs to work through.”
Commisso’s interview was aired hours after the surprise resignation of Cuomo’s aggressive leading assistant Melissa DeRosa, who is implicated of striking back versus another accuser, and as the state Assembly’s Judiciary Committee waited for Cuomo’s proof for a continuous impeachment query.
On Monday, a leading attorney, Roberta Kaplan, resigned as chairwoman of the females’s advocacy group Time’s Up after outrage over the disclosure that she had actually been employed by Cuomo’s group in an effort to reject the very same accuser DeRosa had actually targeted.
“We and she agree that is the right and appropriate thing to do,” the Time’s Up board stated in a declaration on Kaplan’s resignation. Time’s Up was established by numerous females in Hollywood to eliminate systemic unwanted sexual advances in the movie market and other work environments.
Kaplan is presently representing reporter E. Jean Carroll in a suit implicating previous President Donald Trump of libeling her by stating Carroll was lying and encouraged by monetary gain in declaring Trump raped her years back in the dressing space of a Manhattan outlet store.
Carroll informed CNBC in a composed message on Monday, “Robbie Kaplan is my lawyer and will be forever my lawyer!”
Cuomo has actually flatly rejected Commisso’s declares versus him, and informed detectives kept by Attorney General Letitia James that Commisso was “very chatty,” “affectionate,” “friendly,” “flirtatious” and “outgoing.”
His attorney, Rita Glavin, informed press reporters last Friday that, “The documentary evidence does not support what she said.” A representative for Cuomo had no instant discuss Commisso’s interview.
Commisso has actually informed detectives that Cuomo rubbed her rear end while taking a selfie image at the guv’s main house in Albany, which on another event last November he got her breast after offering her a hug in November 2020.
“I could tell immediately when he hugged me it was probably the most sexually aggressive manner than any of the other hugs that he had given me,” she informed CBS News.
“I exactly remember looking down, seeing his hand, which is a large hand, thinking to myself, oh, my god. This is happening. It happened so quick, he didn’t say anything. When I stopped it, he just pulled away and walked away.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks throughout a press conference on May 10, 2021 in New York City.
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Commisso likewise stated Cuomo requires to suffer legal repercussions for his supposed actions towards her.
Asked why she had a grievance versus Cuomo with the Albany County Sheriff’s Office numerous days after her accusations were detailed in a bombshell report by the state chief law officer’s workplace, Commisso stated, “Because it was the right thing to do.”
“The governor needs to be held accountable,” she stated.
“What he did to me was a crime. He broke the law,” Commisso stated.
At least 5 county district lawyer’s workplaces are examining Cuomo or have actually requested for proof from James’ report. Among them is the Albany DA’s workplace, which was alerted of Commisso’s accusations.
Commisso informed CBS that Cuomo on other events had actually provided her hugs and kisses in a way that made her unpleasant.
“These are not hugs that he would give his mother or, you know, his brother,” Commisso stated.
“These were hugs with the intention of getting some personal sexual satisfaction out of. Then they started to be hugs with kisses on the cheek.”
“And then there was at one point a hug and then when he went to go kiss me on the cheek, he quickly turned his head and kissed me on the lips,” she stated.
Commisso stated she informed numerous colleagues about his conduct in March after seeing Cuomo at a press conference reject accusations he sexually bothered anybody.
“He almost has this smirk that he thinks that he’s untouchable,” Commisso stated. “That was the tipping point. I broke down. I said he’s lying. I felt like he was personally saying it to me … ‘I never touched anyone inappropriately.'”
