{"id":12206,"date":"2021-10-29T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T03:21:13","slug":"ex-new-york-governor-charged-with-sex-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=12206","title":{"rendered":"Ex-New York governor charged with sex crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW YORK, Oct 29 &nbsp;&#8212; Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been charged with a sex crime in the Albany City Court, New York State courts spokesperson Lucian Chalfen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Misdemeanor Complaint against former Governor Andrew Cuomo has been filed in Albany City Court,&#8221; Sputnik quoted Chalfen as saying in a statement on Thursday. &#8220;As this is a sex crime, a redacted complaint will be available shortly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement that the criminal charges brought against Cuomo further validate her office&#8217;s own investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png\" alt=\"governor\" class=\"wp-image-12207\" width=\"519\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png 585w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18-185x100.png 185w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18-350x189.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the moment my office received the referral to investigate allegations that former Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, we proceeded without fear or favor,&#8221; James said. &#8220;The criminal charges brought today against Mr. Cuomo for forcible touching further validate the findings in our report.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a copy of the misdemeanor complaint, Cuomo is accused of forcibly placing his hand under the blouse shirt of the victim on December 7, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name of the victim is redacted in the complaint, but she is reportedly the former executive assistant to the governor, Brittany Commisso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuomo resigned after an investigation by James found him to have harassed nearly a dozen colleagues, but he continues to deny any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2017875\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Oct 29 &nbsp;&#8212; Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been charged with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png",585,316,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18-300x162.png",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png",585,316,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png",585,316,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png",585,316,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png",585,316,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png",585,316,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png",585,316,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-11.18.18.png",585,316,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=21\" rel=\"category\">Crime<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12208,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/12208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}