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(Albany, NY/77WABC)-The NY State Legislature’s most powerful Democrat, Speaker Carl Heastie of the Bronx, on Thursday backed a plan for its judiciary committee to launch an impeachment investigation into NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
This authorizes the committee to interview witnesses and subpoena documents. This follows allegations from six women of alleged sexual harassment on the part of Gov. Cuomo. The Governor has repeatedly denied the allegations saying I never “touched anyone inappropriately.”
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Cuomo has also insisted his administration was following CDC Guidelines related to Covid-19.
The impeachment inquiry will not interfere with a separate inquiry of sexual harassment allegations being done by the office of NY State Attorney General Letitia James.
“The legislature needs to determine for itself what the facts are,” a member of the committee, Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, said. “For the people who want immediate impeachment, I think we say please be patient. The process is slow. This could be the next step.
To date, at least 121 members of the state Assembly and Senate have said publicly they believe Cuomo can no longer govern.
The Times Union of Albany reported that an unidentified aide alleged the Governor groped her under her shirt at his official residence late last year.
The woman hasn’t filed a criminal complaint. However, a lawyer for the Governor said Thursday that the state had reported the allegation to the Albany Police Department after the woman involved declined to do so herself.
The Cuomo administration is under a separate investigation by the FBI and Brooklyn Federal Prosecutors regarding the administration’s alleged cover-up of nursing home death totals related to Covid-19.
