A onetime staffer of former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo entered a lawsuit Wednesday against him and three other staffers, claiming sexual harassment and sex discrimination.
Charlotte Bennett served as Cuomo’s briefer or senior briefer and executive assistant from May 2019 to June 2020. Her lawsuit says he made sexual comments about her appearance, gave her humiliating and demeaning assignments and invasively questioned her about personal matters including her sexual assault survival.
Cuomo’s then-Chief of Staff Jill DesRosiers transferred Bennett to an inferior position when she told her about Cuomo’s sexual harassment instead of taking appropriate corrective action, Bennett alleges. DesRosiers, Cuomo’s former Special Counsel Judith Mogul and then-Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa purportedly failed to ask the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations to investigate Bennett’s sexual harassment complaint as required.
Bennett’s lawsuit accuses Cuomo and all three staffers of sex-based discrimination.
Cuomo resigned in August 2021 after New York Attorney General Letitia James unveiled an investigative report finding he sexually harassed more than ten different women, The Associated Press reported. The report detailed his alleged sexual harassment of Bennett.
Criminal charges against Cuomo were dropped in January, according to the The New York Times.
Bennett isn’t the first to sue Cuomo for sexual harassment. He sued James in August for denying a him state-funded private counsel in a female former member of his security detail’s sexual harassment and unlawful discrimination lawsuit naming him as a defendant.
Cuomo’s attorney Rita Glavin and Bennett’s attorneys did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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