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Gov Cuomo sexual harassment accuser Lindsey Boylan slams ‘SHAM’ impeachment investigation and refuses to cooperate
ANDREW Cuomo’s first accuser of sexual harassment called the impeachment investigation against him a “sham” and said she would not cooperate.
Lindsey Boylan, a former aide to New York Governor Cuomo, said the investigation against Cuomo was “not designed to be transparent or to move fast.”
Cuomo has been accused by six different women of sexual harassment or assault in the workplace[/caption]
Boylan’s comments come as another of Cuomo’s accusers said she was asked to spend up to three hours in an interview conducted by independent investigators in an entirely different probe created by Attorney General Letitia James.
Boylan was the first of six different women to come forward about their experiences with Cuomo, all alleging sexual harassment against the governor and two alleged sexual assault.
On Wednesday, Boylan set off a series of tweets against the probe initiated by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who authorized the investigation by the Assembly’s Judiciary Committee.
“Do not trust Carl Heastie. His impeachment investigation is not designed to be transparent or to move fast, and there’s nothing Governor Cuomo wants more than time,” Boylan tweeted.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie reportedly did not tell his members of the law firm he chose to lead the investigation[/caption]
Other Cuomo accusers are being interviewed in an independent investigation conducted by the Attorney General’s office[/caption]
Boylan continued, putting down the investigation and Heastie’s moves to push it along.
“Many of us have not put our whole lives on the line for this crap. I certainly have not and will not,” she wrote. “What would be the point of survivors talking to investigators of your sham investigation Carl Heastie?”
“I am in conversation with other women who have no interest in your corrupt, cynical ‘investigation.’ Hard pass,” she ended.
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Earlier Wednesday it was reported that “Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee were not included in the process of selecting Davis Polk as the law firm to conduct an impeachment inquiry into Cuomo.”
Instead, “the vast majority of members did not find out about the selection until it was made public by Heastie,” which has led to plenty of backlash against the speaker by members of his own party.
Neither Heastie nor his office has yet to make a statement regarding Boylan’s accusations or the report that members of the Assembly did not know his choice.
