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New York, Andrew Cuomo, a été inculpé jeudi 28 octobre devant un tribunal pour agression sexuelle sur une ancienne employée et comparaîtra pour une première audition le 17 novembre, nouvelle étape d'une affaire qui l'avait contraint à la démission cet été, selon une source judiciaire.">
Former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo was indicted in court Thursday, Oct. 28, for sexually assaulting a former employee and will appear for a first hearing on Nov. 17, another step in a case that had forced to resign this summer, according to a judicial source.
« A misdemeanor complaint against former Governor Andrew Cuomo has been filed in Albany City Court A spokeswoman for the New York State courts told AFP, saying it was a sexual affair.
Released by several media, the complaint dated Thursday, October 28 and emanating from the office of the sheriff of the county of Albany, accuses the former governor of “forced touching” on December 7, 2020, at his official residence in Albany, the capital of the state. This complaint is worth indictment and means that the former governor could be tried in criminal proceedings. The Albany court in the evening announced that the former governor was summoned to appear on November 17.
Damning investigation report
Accused for several months by former employees, the 63-year-old governor had resigned on August 11, a week after the publication of a damning investigative report listing the cases of eleven women harassed or sexually assaulted.
A vertiginous fall for this descendant of Italian immigrants, who ruled the country’s fourth state (around 20 million inhabitants) since 2011 and was aiming for a fourth term in 2022.
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when New York was the American epicenter in the spring of 2020, it had acquired the status of a national star. With his daily press briefings, rational and reassuring, this experienced but deemed hard and authoritarian politician had changed dimension, embodying the antithesis of Donald Trump, whose announcements on the health crisis were seen as erratic.
(With AFP)
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