NEW YORK --- The New York State Assembly on Monday released a 63-page report summarizing its impeachment investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The legislative investigation found "overwhelming evidence" that Cuomo engaged in sexual harassment and ordered state workers to help produce his book on the COVID-19 pandemic during work hours. The former governor was guaranteed at least $5.2 million in personal profit for the book, according to the report.
Additionally, impeachment investigators concluded Cuomo and his administration were not fully transparent when reporting the number of nursing home residents who died if COVID-19 during the peak of the pandemic in spring of 2020.
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In March, the Assembly Judiciary Committee hired a Manhattan law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell, to investigate whether there were grounds to impeach Cuomo.
Cuomo, a Democrat, resigned in August to avoid a likely impeachment trial in the wake of another investigation that found he sexually harassed at least 11 women. That investigation was led by two independent attorneys selected by state Attorney General Letitia James, also a Democrat.
The Assembly investigators said they reviewed that sexual harassment investigation, as well as thousands of pages of documents gathered by Davis Polk that ranged from photographs to emails to recordings of phone calls to video recordings.
Davis Polk investigators didn’t interview Cuomo, who instead provided written submissions.
Cuomo’s spokesperson, Richard Azzopardi, and lawyer, Rita Glavin, didn’t immediately respond to request for comment on the legislative investigation.
Cuomo has denied that he ever intended to touch anyone inappropriately and said he never meant to make anyone uncomfortable with sexual remarks. He has also flat-out denied some allegations, including an executive assistant's claim that he groped her breasts at the governor’s official residence, the Executive Mansion, last winter.
Cuomo has demanded that Assembly investigators hand over all their evidence against him, but Judiciary Committee members say he isn’t entitled to that evidence.
