Thread by @StuDoesAmerica

#CuomoReport is out: "touching and grabbing of Executive Assistant #1’s butt during hugs" ag.ny.gov/sites/default/…

"inquiring multiple times about whether she had cheated or
would cheat on her husband, and asking her to help find him a girlfriend"

"reached under her blouse and grabbed her breast"

"running his hand across her stomach, from her belly
button to her right hip, while she held a door open for him at an event"

"asking her to help him find a girlfriend and
describing his criteria for a girlfriend as someone who “[c]an handle pain"

" telling Ms. Bennett, in talking about potential girlfriends for him, that he
would be willing to date someone who was as young as 22 years old (he knew
Ms. Bennett was 25 at the time)"

" asking her whether she had been with older men"

"While the picture was being taken, the Governor put his hand on State Entity
Employee #1’s butt, tapped it twice, and then grabbed her butt"

"She wore a shirt that had the name of the
Energy Company written across the chest. When the Governor reached
Ms. Limmiatis, he ran two fingers across her chest, pressing down on each of the
letters"

"with his face close to Ms. Limmiatis’s cheek, and said, “I’m
going to say I see a spider on your shoulder,” before brushing his hand in the area
between her shoulder and breasts"

"Our investigation
identified corroboration for Ms. Boylan’s allegations, including ones the Governor
and the Executive Chamber denied"

"the Governor and the Executive Chamber actively engaged
in an effort to discredit her, including by disseminating to the press confidential
internal documents that painted her in a negative light"

"staring down her loose shirt
and then commenting on her necklace (which was inside her shirt)"

"Ms. Ruch, feeling uncomfortable, grabbed the Governor’s wrist and
removed his hand from her back. At that point, the Governor remarked, “Wow,
you’re aggressive,” after which the Governor cupped her face in his hands and said,
“can I kiss you?”

"he admitted that he
“may” have kissed certain staff members on the lips, without remembering who"

"He expressed his
view that this investigation itself—and the investigators conducting the investigation—were
politically motivated, an assertion that we saw in the documentary evidence...was part of the planned response to the investigation almost as soon as it commenced."

" each complainant
found his conduct to be some combination of humiliating, uncomfortable, offensive, or
inappropriate"

“I think that he definitely knew what he was doing and it was almost as if he would do these
things and know that he could get away with it because of the fear that he knew we had.”

"On the one hand, he makes all
this inappropriate and creepy behavior normal and like you should
not complain. On the other hand, you see people get punished and
screamed at if you do anything where you disagree with him"

"Even the State Troopers in the PSU developed an understanding that they could not upset the
Governor... “Everyone knows he’s
very vindictive.”

"discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sex or gender and
retaliation for complaints about such discrimination violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964"

"The evidence obtained in our investigation revealed that the complainants’ fears of
retaliation were justified"

"senior
staff within the Executive Chamber—along with a group of outside advisors—engaged in a
series of retaliatory actions"

"preparing a proposed op-ed, originally drafted by
the Governor, that contained personal and professional attacks on Ms. Boylan"

"Senior staff also pressured former employees to surreptitiously record telephone conversations with, respectively,
Ms. Boylan and Kaitlin...potentially in the hopes of obtaining additional
information to use against any women who might speak out"

"we conclude that the responses to Ms. Boylan’s public allegation of
sexual harassment against the Governor constituted unlawful retaliation, in that it was conduct
that would “dissuade a reasonable worker from making or supporting a charge of
discrimination.”

"when Ms. Bennett reported interactions with the Governor that had made her
so uncomfortable that she said she no longer wanted to interact with him, the Executive
Chamber’s senior staff did not report it...even
though (senior staff) found Ms. Bennett to be credible."

"...told her to
get her tattoo on her butt where it could not be seen, said he was lonely and wanted to be
touched, said he wanted to ride his motorcycle into the mountains with a woman, and called her
Daisy Duke"

Staff found allegations "to be sufficiently serious to implement an informal protocol to try to protect the
Governor from being alone with young women on the Executive Chamber staff. Nonetheless,
they decided that no report to GOER or investigation was warranted."

"allegations involved sexually
suggestive conversations, and any claim to not see that in the Governor’s comments we find to
be not credible."

"senior staff testified that they destroyed the recordings."

Cuomo's Special Counsel had "(handwritten notes from Ms. Mogul from conversation with Ms. Bennett, noting “blatant example of grooming”).

Texts among Cuomo's own staff: "What’s crazy is if you or I did what is alleged we’d be fired on the spot no
questions asked . . . and it would be the right thing too,” to which the current staff member
answered, “that’s the damn truth.”

"The two continued the next day, after discussing
Ms. Boylan’s allegations: “The admin knows its true!!” / “Yes they are already at true equals
resign. Our side have lost their way.”

"after the Governor’s
response to Ms. Bennett’s allegations saying that he was “trying to be a mentor to her,” the
former senior staff member wrote: “I believe her 100% . . . [a]nd his stmt was gross. Trying to
mentor . . . [y]ou creep.”

"we reach the
conclusion that the Governor sexually harassed a number of State employees through unwelcome
and unwanted touching, as well as by making numerous offensive and sexually suggestive
comments."

"We also conclude that such behavior by the Governor was part of a pattern that
extended to his interactions with women outside of State government, and was enabled and
facilitated by a culture within the Executive Chamber of secrecy, loyalty to the Governor, and
fear"

"we conclude that the Executive Chamber’s response to a number of the sexual
harassment allegations violated its internal policies and that its response to one complainant’s
sexual harassment allegation constituted unlawful retaliation."

"we issued over 70 subpoenas for documents and
other information, and received over 74,000 documents.
We also interviewed 179 individuals and took testimony under oath from 41 of them"

"Executive Assistant #1 testified
that she felt that the Governor would look her up and down on a regular basis."

the Governor commented on EA #1’s appearance and clothing, including telling her she “looked good for [her] age and [for]
being a mother” (she is in her early 30s), “it’s about time that you showed some leg” when she
wore a dress"

"the Governor denied making such comments and that he would “never say” such
comments. The Governor in turn testified that he found Executive Assistant #1 to be “very
chatty,” “affectionate,” “friendly,” “flirtatious,” and “outgoing.”

So much more detail in the report, but I need to stop tweeting and get it ready for the show. Tonight 8pm eastern Blazetv.com/stu or on podcast/youtube for free. StuDoesAmerica.com.
Oh. And...
AndrewCuomoIsAwful.com.