The damaging report released this week by the New York attorney general’s office said a cult of loyalty in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office helped to create “an environment” that allowed harassment “to flourish”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo for years has shrugged off accusations that he oversees an office that runs on fear, threats, insularity and above all, fealty to Cuomo himself. Tough tactics were necessary, Cuomo and his allies said, to get things done in New York.by the state Attorney General’s office unequivocally said it was that culture — and the people who presided over it — that allowed gender-based harassment and inappropriate conduct to continue unchecked for years.
The all-hands effort only intensified months later when Boylan raised additional allegations, setting in motion a series of events that culminated in Tuesday’s report and put Cuomo’s political life teetering on a cliff’s edge. When a former executive chamber employee, identified in the report by her first name Kaitlin, received an unexpected call from a former staff member that was surreptitiously recorded, it was done “at the insistence of Ms. DeRosa,” according to the report.
DeRosa also had a pair of noteworthy conference calls with members of the Albany Times Union that were documented in the report. In one, DeRosa repeatedly pushed to send Boylan’s personnel file even though the journalists tried to rebuff her. A reception to celebrate the passage of the New York State Budget was held at the Executive Mansion was held April 12, 2016 in Albany, NY with the governor’s office director Stephanie Benton. | tktktk
Walsh, like Benton, said she had inoffensive physical interactions with the governor and testified that the governor had kissed her on the lips, though she was not made uncomfortable by the gesture.is a top government official whose name regularly appeared in the report as one who exceeded her official duties in Cuomo’s defense.
But his role went beyond just disseminating Boylan’s file to those outside the Executive Chamber. The report states Azzopardi “hunted for Wite-Out to redact the names of other employees” who were named in the Boylan documents before it leaked to reporters and others.was often in the mix, including as
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