Nov. 25 (UPI) — An aide for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who accused him of groping her in 2020 filed a civil lawsuit below the state’s Grownup Survivors Act for “steady sexual harassment,” a number of information organizations reported.
Brittany Commisso filed courtroom papers earlier this week to provoke a lawsuit and a proper grievance that Cuomo made undesirable advances and retaliated when she rebuffed.
Commisso was one in every of girls whose claims of harassment had been substantiated by a state legal professional common’s report. The authorized motion was filed days earlier than the state’s year-long Grownup Survivors Act was set to run out on Friday. The act allowed folks to sue for sexual assault or harassment past the statute of limitations.
Cuomo’s legal professional Rita Glavin mentioned: “Ms. Commisso’s claims are provably false, which is why the Albany district legal professional dismissed the case two years in the past after an intensive investigation.”
“Ms. Commisso’s clear try at a money seize will fail,” Glavin mentioned. “We stay up for seeing her in courtroom.”
Cuomo resigned in 2021 following Commisso’s allegations she was demoted “from the place of Govt Assistant to the Governor, eliminated her from the Govt Chamber entrance workplace, and assigned her to the demeaning activity of answering telephones within the Lieutenant Governor’s workplace till moved to different places of work, together with lack of additional time, ostracism, given little or no work, demotion, and lack of profession alternatives and development.”
In the latest courtroom submitting, she mentioned the sexual harassment included “unwelcome sexual advances, sexualized feedback about look and private issues, relations, their courting, their intercourse life, and her marriage, project of humiliating and demeaning duties, hugs, kisses, sexual touching of the buttocks, and forcible touching of the breast.”