Former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo was charged in court on Thursday with sexually assaulting a former employee and will appear for a first hearing on November 17, a new stage in a case that forced him to resign this summer, we learned from a judicial source.
“Misdemeanor complaint against former Governor Andrew Cuomo filed in Albany City Court“, told AFP a spokeswoman for the courts of New York State, specifying that it was a sexual case.
Broadcast by several media outlets, the complaint dated Thursday from the Albany County Sheriff’s Office accuses the former governor of “forced touching” on December 7, 2020, at his official residence in Albany, the state capital. This complaint is worth indictment and means that the former governor could be tried in criminal.
The Albany court announced in the evening that the former governor was summoned to appear on November 17.
Accused for several months by former employees, the 63-year-old governor resigned on August 11, a week after the publication of a damning investigation report listing the cases of eleven women harassed or sexually assaulted.
A dizzying fall for this descendant of Italian immigrants, who governed the country’s fourth state (about 20 million inhabitants) since 2011 and was aiming for a fourth term in 2022.
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