Judges and defense lawyers have their tools to make sure their jury is not prejudiced.” “If the attorney general was someone who had her eyes on governor, that does not at all mean she was not accurate in her report,” he told The Post.īonventre added that Glavin’s claim Cuomo had been “prejudiced” by media coverage of the report “could be said every single time there is a public official who has become notorious and faces litigation or every time there is a crime the public is interested in and the press reports on. Vin Bonventre, distinguished professor of law at Albany Law School, said he was skeptical of the idea that James’ potential ambitions for higher office undermined the report’s conclusions.
Mike Segar-Pool/Getty ImagesĪ law enforcement source who wished to remain anonymous suggested to The Post that Glavin was “creating a broader strategy to create a record for possible use in a lawsuit later on.”ĭr. Glavin wrote the 10-page letter to state Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Lavine and committee lawyers. James - who has not announced a gubernatorial bid ahead of the 2022 Democratic primary - has forcefully defended her office’s analysis, addressing Cuomo and his exiled allies’ attempts to undermine her report in recent weeks during campaign-style speeches at various events. “They’re setting up to undermine the Assembly report just like they did with the Attorney General’s report,” one state government source told The Post upon review of the letter, noting Cuomo aides repeatedly made public statements that James had political aspirations and wanted to run for governor, and that was the motivation behind her report’s results. 3, which corroborated claims by 11 women who alleged Cuomo sexually harassed them. “Each time the press repeats the false statement that the Report found that my client sexually harassed eleven women, my client is further prejudiced,” she added before warning: “If the Assembly is to go along with this false narrative, you will be creating a new standard for sexual harassment that every member of the legislature must be prepared to be judged by.”įriday’s letter was the second that Glavin has fired off to Lavine and the four lawyers from Davis Polk & Wardwell retained by the committee that notifies them of her request to “amend, correct and supplement” what she described as a “flawed, unreliable and misleading” report released by James Aug. Hochul demanded White House appointment to be replaced as Cuomo’s No. “Indeed,” Glavin continued, “even if you were to accept every complaint as fact (which we do not), more than half of the complainant’s allegations do not meet the standard of sexual harassment set forth in law.” Stunningly, Glavin insisted that the Judiciary Committee report “must clarify that the Governor did not sexually harass 11 women in violation of the law, and the Report did not find this. In a 10-page missive to state Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) and committee lawyers, Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin sought to prevent the panel from adopting James’ findings in their own soon-to-be-released impeachment probe report. Andrew Cuomo‘s lawyer in a brash Friday filing that attacked both his many accusers and state Attorney General Letitia James, whose office led an investigation that found Cuomo broke state and federal harassment laws. That’s the unusual argument put forward by disgraced ex-Gov.
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