Lindsay Boylan, 36
Former assistant Lindsay Boylan, 36, was the first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment in a February 24 Medium publication. She claims that the governor asked her to play strip poker and kissed her on the lips without her permission when she worked for him in 2017.
Lindsay Boylan, 36
Charlotte Bennett, 25
Charlotte Bennett, 25, came out a few days after Boylan and said Cuomo sexually harassed her last June while she was working as a health policy adviser in his administration in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
Bennett accused Cuomo of “cutting her hair” and asking inappropriate questions about her sex life.
She also claims that he told her that he was ready to date women in their 20s.
Bennett said the governor had asked her about her love life – including whether she had ever had sex with older men – and spoke of her own, saying age differences didn’t matter in relationships and he was open to dating women over 22 years.
During a meeting alone in his office, the governor said he was lonely and said he wanted to hug someone, Bennett said.
She said she quickly complained to Cuomo’s chief of staff and was transferred to another job.
She said she had spoken to the governor’s lawyer, but did not insist on further action because she liked her new post and wanted to move on.
Charlotte Bennett, 25
Anna Rukh, 33
Anna Ruch was the third woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment and the only one not to work with him professionally. She claims that Cuomo put his hands on her face and asked if he could kiss her just moments after they met at a wedding in September 2019 in Manhattan.
Anna Rukh, 33
Anna Lis, 35
Anna Lis, 35, a former aide, said Cuomo asked her if she had a boyfriend, once kissed her hand on the desk and called her patron names, including “blonde,” “sweetheart,” and “sweetheart.”
At a reception, the governor hugged her, then hugged her waist and waist as they posed for a photo, Lis said.
She said she eventually requested a relocation. In an interview, Lis said he “does not claim to be sexual harassment per se”, but said the administration “is not a safe place for young women to work”.
Lis, who previously served as Cuomo’s policy and operations assistant between 2013 and 2015, told the Wall Street Journal that during her tenure, the governor subjected her to unsolicited advances, including touching her lower back. her, kissing her hand and questioning. for her love life.
Anna Lis, 35
Karen Hinton, 62
The oldest allegations against Cuomo come from Karen Hinton, who served as his press aide when he headed the US Department of Housing and Urban Development two decades ago, and she was a consultant to the agency. Hinton told the Washington Post about an incident in 2000, when she said that Cuomo called her to his “dimly lit” hotel room and hugged her after a work event. She said she tried to pull away from Cuomo when he pulled her back and held her before she could escape the room.
Karen Hinton, 62
An unnamed sixth prosecutor
The most serious allegations against Cuomo so far come from a sixth prosecutor, whose name has not been released.
The prosecutor, who is a member of Cuomo’s staff, said he closed the door, reached under her blouse and stroked her after calling her to the Albany governor’s mansion for help with his cell phone, according to the Albany Times.
Her indictment was first reported last month; she then gave more details in her first interview on the subject.
The woman spoke on condition of anonymity to protect her privacy, although her identity is known in the governor’s circle, the Times Union reported.
The woman, an executive assistant, told the Times Union that the governor had kissed her cheek and inappropriately loud hugs for years and remarked, including: “If she was single, the things I would do to you” and “I’m single and ready to mixing.
Then, one day in November, she was called to the Executive Mansion’s office to help him with a cell phone problem, she said.
He got up from his desk, began to touch her, and told her “I don’t care,” after she tried to distract him by saying she was going to get them in trouble, and then he slammed the door, she said.
Then he reached under her blouse and squeezed one of her breasts over her bra, she told the paper.
The woman told a colleague this winter about the alleged meeting, and the colleague told a boss in early March, according to the newspaper.
Cuomo called the report “shocking” in a March statement, saying: “I have never done anything like this.”
Another aide, who remained anonymous, claims he called her to his Executive Mansion last year, reached under her blouse and caressed her.
Jessica Bakman
Jessica Bakman claims in a first-person article for New York Magazine that she has been sexually harassed by Cuomo several times since the beginning of her journalistic career in 2012.
Bakman added her voice as the seventh prosecutor as she described an inappropriate touch by the governor as he continued to deny all allegations.
“He took my hand as if to squeeze it, then refused to let go,” Bakman wrote of his dealings with Cuomo as she said goodnight at a holiday party in 2014, when she was just 25 years old.
“He put his other arm around my back, his arm at my waist, and held me firmly in place, telling a photographer he wanted us to pose for a photo.”
At the time, Bakman was working for what is now Politico New York, and she claimed that the red flags were raised because her “job was to analyze and research it carefully.”
“I didn’t want a picture of him with his hands on my body and a smile on my face,” she wrote.
Jessica Beckman, a reporter who once covered the Kuomo administration, was the seventh woman to make allegations of harassment.
“But I did the reflexive assessment that most women and marginalized people know instinctively, the calculation of risk, strength and self-preservation. I knew it would be much easier to smile for the brief moment it took to take a picture than to challenge one of the most influential men in the country.
In an earlier incident in 2012 while she worked for USA Today, Bakman also claimed that Cuomo kept her attached to him while telling a story to her male colleagues.
“He left him there and kept me pinned to him for a few minutes as he told his story,” she said. “I stood there with hot cheeks and giggled nervously while my fellow men did the same. We all knew it was wrong, but we did nothing.
The reporter, who now works in Florida, claims that Cuomo “never lets me forget that I’m a woman”, as she also claims that he made frequent attempts to humiliate her, including calling her purple phone. instead of answering her question during a press conference. .
Alice McGrath, 33
McGrath, the current administrative assistant at Cuomo’s office, told the New York Times that he looked at her shirt, asked her about her marital status and told her she was beautiful, using an Italian phrase she had to ask her parents to interpret.
McGrath did not say the governor had sex with her, but said his behavior was sexual harassment.
She remembered Cuomo kissing her on the forehead and holding her tight as she posed for a photo of a Christmas party at the office in 2019.
Alice McGrath (pictured) is one of two aides who came forward to accuse the governor of harassment
Sherry Will, 55
Sherry Will, 55, accused Cuomo of sexual assault during a press conference with her lawyer, Gloria Allred, on Monday.
She claims that Cuomo grabbed her by the face and kissed her “aggressively and sexually” on both cheeks in May 2017 while walking around her home in Greecenear Rochester while inspecting local flood damage.
Will, who said she was uncomfortable at the time, shared a photo taken by her daughter during the day showing Cuomo holding her face as he kissed her cheek, and her lawyer picked up a number of photos showing the governor in at home.
The same photos appear on Cuomo’s Flickr account, as well as many others showing him kissing and greeting residents as he tours the city.
None of the women in the other photos accused the governor of inappropriate behavior or wrongdoing.
Sherry Will, 55, accused Cuomo of sexual assault on Monday. Will, who said she felt uncomfortable at the time, shared a photo taken by her daughter the day Cuomo was seen holding her face as he kissed her cheek.