News organizations last year pursued many leads about the conduct of now-former New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D), including his alleged harassment of a female state trooper on his security detail, among several others, his creation of a toxic work environment extending back to his time as U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development and more.
Amid all the reporting, though, one tidbit was left unexplored: Charlotte Bennett, whose accusations against the governor last February were followed by a succession of additional complaints, had herself been accused in a 2017 federal lawsuit of having filed a false claim of “non-consensual sexual contact” against a fellow student at Hamilton College. Though the lawsuit used pseudonyms for the students, it identified Bennett by citing a newspaper opinion piece she’d written. She was not a defendant in the case, which Hamilton settled quickly on undisclosed terms.
According to the complaint in John Doe v. Hamilton College, “Sally Smith” — Bennett’s pseudonym — filed the claim against the plaintiff “knowing it was false, and knowing there was evidence of its falsity.” The suit also alleges that there was a recording in which “Smith” stated that “Doe” “did not sexually assault her.”
“Smith’s” complaint, said the lawsuit, came “in concert with” another complaint lodged to secure disciplinary action against “Doe”; four complaints against him surfaced within two weeks alleging misconduct dating back at least two years, according to the...
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