“As a survivor, and a survivor directly impacted by Cuomo, this started out as one of the darkest periods of my life,” Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to accuse the former governor of sexual harassment, told Jezebel. “It has now become one of the most empowering ones, and that has everything to do with survivors fighting alongside me for change.”
Boylan worked for the Cuomo administration from March 2015 to October 2018, first serving as Chief of Staff for Empire State Development before being promoted to Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Special Adviser in 2018. In December 2020, she accused the former governor of sexual harassment in a series of tweets, saying it’d been happening “for years.” She followed that up with a detailed essay in February 2021, revealing that other women had since confided in her that they, too, had been harassed by Cuomo.
“I am speaking up because I have the privilege to do so when many others do not,” she wrote on Medium at the time. “No one should have to be defined or destroyed by this kind of sexual harassment.”
After just over a dozen women, including Boylan, came forward with accusations, Cuomo stepped down as governor in 2021. In his resignation address, he thanked the women for their bravery and said he accepted “full responsibility for my actions.” But he’s since alleged the accusations were politically motivated, dismissed his actions as him just being Italian (???), and said in June that he regretted resigning. In January...
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