One of the alleged victims of the New York governor says he groped her “aggressively”

The sixth woman to accuse the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, of sexual harassment, assured that the politician groped her “aggressively” at her official residence, where she asked her to go for work reasons at the end of 2020, the local media reported on Wednesday Albany Times Union.

According to the newspaper, the governor’s employee, much younger than him, explained that Cuomo put his hands under her blouse and groped her breasts during the incident, which happened when she had to move to the Executive Mansion in Albany, the state capital of Albany. New York, to solve a problem that his boss was having with his mobile.

The alleged victim, who has not been identified and who revealed the incident on Tuesday without offering details, then asked the governor to stop, says the media, which claims to have obtained information from a person close to the woman.

The accusations this Wednesday are the most serious that have been presented to date against Cuomo, who has been singled out for five other women in the past two weeks for sexual misconduct and harassment, something he has repeatedly denied.

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“Like I said yesterday, I have never done something like this to anyone. The details of this information are devastating, ”Cuomo said Wednesday in a statement sent to the Albany Times Union, in which he also stated that he will not speak of the specific circumstances exposed in any of the accusations given the current investigation that is in hand. from New York Attorney General Letitia James.

A day earlier, at a telephone press conference, he stated that “he has never” touched “anyone inappropriately”, and also stressed that no woman told him “at that time that he had made them feel uncomfortable.”

The details of the sixth accusation are known two days after James announced the names of the two people who will lead the investigation team of the alleged sexual harassment, whose complaints come mostly from young women with whom Cuomo has worked in the last years.

Several of the comrades of the New York Democratic party have asked that he resign, while this Monday the Republican minority in the New York Legislative Assembly announced that it will begin the procedure to impeach Cuomo (“impeachment” , in English).

Likewise, the governor faces an increasing number of party colleagues who accuse him of poor management of nursing homes during the first months of the pandemic and workplace harassment.