🚨Cuomo Is Accused of Sexual Harassment by a 2nd Former Aide
The woman, 25, told NYT that Cuomo asked her if she “had ever been with an older man.”
He denied impropriety and called for an outside review.
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She said Cuomo asked her about her personal life, including whether she thought age made a difference in romantic relationships, and had said he was open to relationships with women in their 20s — comments she saw as overtures to a sexual relationship. nytimes.com/2021/02/27/nyr…
“I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me, and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared,” Ms. Bennett said. “And was wondering how I was going to get out of it and assumed it was the end of my job.” nytimes.com/2021/02/27/nyr…
“The way he was repeating, ‘You were raped and abused and attacked and assaulted and betrayed,’ over and over again while looking me directly in the eyes was something out of a horror movie,” she wrote to her friend. “It was like he was testing me.” nytimes.com/2021/02/27/nyr…
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Cuomo said today that governors were not responsible for sounding warnings about coming pandemics: “Where were all the experts? Where was The NY Times?”
Let’s look at just three of numerous examples from our coverage:
• Jan. 26: "WUHAN, China — A top Chinese health official warned on Sunday that the spread of the dangerous new coronavirus, already extraordinarily rapid, is accelerating further." nyti.ms/2yQ5wQT
• Feb. 2: The Wuhan coronavirus spreading from China is now likely to become a pandemic that circles the globe, according to many of the world’s leading infectious disease experts. nyti.ms/3bONq0f
Just in: Mayor de Blasio orders an inquiry in response to the groundbreaking NYT investigation into exploitative loans in the taxi industry by @brianmrosenthal
Read Part 1 of the NYT investigation: Thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were trapped in reckless loans by bankers who made huge profits. nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyr…
Read Part 2: The government profited and looked away as thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were ravaged by exploitative loans. nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyr…
This one chart explains why @nytimes is thriving in the digital era.
@nytimes Strong @nytimes earnings:
• $709 million in digital revenue last year.
• 3.3 million people pay for NYT digital products, 27 percent jump.
• Total paid subscriptions for digital and print reached 4.3 million, a high. nyti.ms/2UKE2lg
@nytimes .@nytimes CEO Mark Thompson:
"We are scaling digital revenue more successfully than any other news organization in the world. We’ve proven that an engaged audience will pay for high-quality journalism."
Breaking: NY attorney general is starting a civil investigation into whether dioceses and other Roman Catholic institutions potentially covered up allegations of sexual abuse of minors within NY. nyti.ms/2Q7QGcJ
Just in:
New Jersey has launched its own inquiry into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy bit.ly/2NSlX1N
The announcements by the two states comes several weeks after an explosive Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed the abuse of more than 1,000 children in the state by hundreds of priests over decades nyti.ms/2nFLRdq
NYT Scoop: Michael Cohen, Trump's ex-lawyer, is under investigation for bank fraud in excess of $20 million. Charges could come soon. nyti.ms/2PnEiEV
Criminal charges against Cohen would deal a significant blow to Trump. Cohen worked for the president’s company, the Trump Organization, for more than a decade. He was one of Trump’s most loyal and visible aides. nyti.ms/2PnEiEV
If Cohen cooperates with prosecutors to avoid indictment, that would likely include a provision that he provide information to the special counsel, Mueller, who is investigating possible involvement by Trump's campaign in Russia’s election meddling. nyti.ms/2PnEiEV
New: Statement from A.G. Sulzberger, @nytimes publisher: "My main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.”
@nytimes He added: "I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous. I told him that although the phrase ‘fake news' is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists 'the enemy of the people.’"