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February 28, 2021 New troubles for Andrew Cuomo.

A second woman accuses him of sexual harassment at work within a few days.

The governor of the state of New York is so seriously risking his job with the resignation demand that he mounts even within his own party.



In just a few weeks, Cuomo went from anti-Trump leader in the fight against the pandemic to accusations of sexual harassment and then was also accused of covering up the real data on Covid victims in the 'Big Apple'.



Now it is a 25-year-old former aide, Charlotte Bennett, who revealed the governor's repeated 'advances' to the New York Times.

A frequent occurrence in recent months, given the role of advisor for health policies held by women.

"She never tried to touch me", Charlotte points out, but she said how Cuomo clearly made her understand that he "wanted to go to bed" with her.



"He said he suffered loneliness in times of pandemic for not even being able to hug someone," recalls the woman.

Then in early June, she continues, one evening they were alone in the office when the governor started asking her too personal questions.

Cuomo would then ask her if she thought age difference was a relationship problem, and confided that at 63 he was "open to relationships with women in their twenties."

"I felt incredibly uncomfortable and scared," says Charlotte, explaining that she was moved after telling the episodes to another woman, Jill Desrosiers, Cuomo's chief of staff. 



In a long note, he denies everything: "Never made advances and never acted inappropriately. Investigations will clarify".

But to weigh on the situation of the governor the accusations of another former assistant, Lindsay Boylan, who already a few days ago had reported being kissed without his consent by Cuomo, who on one occasion would also have invited her to play strip poker .



Boylan, in a long post on medium, described the working environment in Cuomo's offices as "toxic", with "a culture where sexual harassment and bullying are so pervasive that they are always forgiven, if not indulged".



Facts that are not long in arriving on the desk of the New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, who today said she was ready to oversee an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against the governor.

The latter then asked to report immediately and officially on the case, warning that she is ready to summon him.